Day: July 21, 2025

I think Dawkins is an idiot. But then in his defense we have to admit that every one of us is an idiot in the same sense that I judge him to be an idiot in this piece. 

Here I am not using the clinical definition of an idiot as a person with profound intellectual disability broadly characterized by a mental age below three years and an intelligence quotient (IQ) under 25. Compared to us unwashed masses, Dawkins is an intellectual giant who has made significant contributions in his domain of biology. He has also affected popular culture. He coined the word “meme” half a century ago in his first best-seller “The Selfish Gene”! You don’t get more hard-core than that.

In this case of Dawkins, I am using the term idiot colloquially which means someone who appears to lack basic common sense. Continue reading “Richard Dawkins is an Idiot”