Felix: Richard Dawkins on Charles Darwin and Rick Perry. Awesome. There is...

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Richard Dawkins on Charles Darwin and Rick Perry. Awesome.

There is nothing unusual about Governor Rick Perry. Uneducated fools can be found in every country and every period of history, and they are not unknown in high office. What is unusual about today’s Republican party (I disavow the…

Good use of “recondite”. Though I’d dispute that “Darwin’s idea is arguably the most powerful ever to occur to a human mind”. I’d argue the more profound and fundamental ideas are to be found in maths and physics.

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    This is all both impeccably correct and insufferably smug.
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    Good use of “recondite”. Though I’d dispute that “Darwin’s idea is arguably the most powerful ever to occur to a human...
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    at the WashPost’s “On Faith” site, explaining that denial of evolution ought to disqualify anyone from higher political...
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