1. Executing Saddam Hussein was an Act of Vandalism

Comment #15812 by bjflanagan on January 3, 2007 at 6:48 am

"It is because the scientific community has meticulously tried to keep politics out of their domain the community now suffers at the hands of bullying politicians, christian right and many others."

What about academic politics? As Kissinger famously remarked, it is so vicious precisely because the rewards are so small.

"It is time for scientists like Dr. Dawkins, Dennett and others to speak up. That they are doing so shows a brave and positive step toward progress."

Those who are also politically clueless? I read that Dawkins and his minions want atheists to shun all religionists -- including the more enlightened, on the grounds that they enable the fundamentalists. The irony of their own intolerance mirroring the latter group's would seem to be utterly lost on them.

Curious, how 3rd-order intellects are often attracted to atheism, whereas guys like Newton, Einstein and Schrodinger were deeply reverent. Perhaps it is because, as a British wag of the last century had it, "They don't believe because they think that makes them clever." It's rather as though the tone deaf were to insist on the cessation of all music.

Now we read that Dawkins seems to look forward to Blair and Bush being tried for war crimes and that he thinks Saddam should have been preserved for research purposes. Has anyone thought to point out to the good professor that he is a ridiculous dork?