re: #227 wrenchwench

IMHO, Dawkins jumped the shark over the elevator.

(I don’t entirely agree with this author’s conclusion, but it’s close.)

I’ve disagreed with Dawkins’ approach on certain other issues, but in this case, he was exactly right. If anything, he wasn’t scathing enough. That whole nontroversy sent my respect for Rebecca Watson to zero (saying that as a long-time fan of The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe), and made PZ Myers and Phil Plait both look like a couple of idiots on that issue.

My perception may be colored in part by having been around the JREF forum long enough to remember Rebecca Watson being a complete drama queen there (and eventually being banned because of it).

To add insult to injury, it forced me to almost entirely agree with “The Amazing Atheist”, whom I normally consider just about as intolerable as it is possible to be.

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