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Originally Posted by peter12
I've insulted someone who you clearly consider a source of revelatory information and you call it trolling? I don't think he's a serious person, he's sort of like a stereotypical bourgeois parent who has caught his child looking at pornography on the internet. The humanity! I blame the schools!
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You clearly don't know much about him do you. But if you must know I got to know him by his biology books, and of course I loved his God delusion.
Why is he not serious, how do you define serious?
The man is a passionate defender of his chosen field of science which is under attack all over the world. While teachers who teach latin don't have to fight off dumb parents who deny Rome even existed, he has to battle not only these people but try to inspire people to take part in the beauty of biology and our understanding of nature.
Obviously he's rough around the edges, he's a science guy thrown into the spotlight because he wrote a book on God and was forced into being a spokesperson for it. I don't think he's terribly good at it, I think people see him as strident but he's very much a mild mannered guy.
I prefer someone like Daniel Dennett or Sam Harris to hear argue or debate God. I love to watch Hitchens simply for his wit and bulldogish ability to debate.
But obviously since I referenced these best sellers of recent years I'm a typical new atheist with no real deep understanding of what I'm talking about.