[Bobboau]

https://soundcloud.com/user-733970241/an-update-on-richards-condition-in-his-own-words

sad to hear him sound so weak.
I like the part where he talks abou the hand

[karajorma]

I heard about him having a stroke cause everyone thought the Church of England were trolling him on Twitter.

[rubixcube]

Happy to hear the stroke is minor, hope he recovers quickly, he's my favourite public intellectual along with Sam Harris

[Grizzly]

Happy to hear the stroke is minor, hope he recovers quickly, he's my favourite public intellectual along with Sam Harris

Meh, I don't like his intellectualism that much: He advocates for a kind of atheïsm that is dogmatic to the point that it in itself is religious in it's rejection of religion.

He's a great biologist though.

[Phantom Hoover]

Dawkins is best understood as a victim of his own Twitter account.

[NGTM-1R]

Dawkins is best understood as a victim of his own Twitter account.

Couldn't you say this of everyone with a Twitter account?

[Bobboau]

yeah, I never understood the popularity of that horrible service.

[MP-Ryan]

Nonsense, Twitter is immensely entertaining, and your audience is essentially self-selecting.  Certain advantages over online forums