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It's actually even more unlikely that they would be able to learn how to talk. This guy's clearly not a very good scientist if he missed that.
I'd be questioning the unique selective pressures that caused the hundred acre wood to produce sentient stuffing filled animals.
I mean, if it's the Red Forest, anything is possible
Darwin's got his finches, Dawkins has his teddy, each instrumental to the modern understanding of natural selection.
Or he knows something we don't...
Unlike with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, with Dawkins, I would be quite surprised if he brought that up without being quite specifically asked about it…
It's probably from an hour long portrait interview, in which they cover a lot of ground including favourite English literary pieces, and the interviewer tries to tie it to the guest. They would probably ask David Beckham which Harry Potter character he'd have on his football team.
Viktor Krum perhaps?
I'd have thought Dean Thomas. Isn't he a West Ham fan? He'd at least know the rules, which is probably more than can be said of the average wizard.
Great call!
Dawkins would have shitposted on Twitter with the best of them if he'd been born later
But, now hear me out, what if there was also a rabbit?
Why stop there? Owl! Tiger! Kangaroo!
Tigger. There's a double-guh.
It's morphin' time!
Yeah, not with that attitude, Richard.
This looks like something from Viz magazine. They'll regularly have big one page jokes about something and then have these little made up side bits in.
Whole thing was probably about illegal immigrants taking small boats to the hundred acre wood and then there's this little bit in the bottom.
Here's an example. The thoughts of the 1966 world cup winning squad on the disappearance of Lord Lucan
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I mean, he's a Tigger, not a Tiger, so that's off.
Bruh you can't just drop the t-word like that
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I don’t think those animals would be stitched together with cloth and stuffed with cotton, either.
I came here looking to see if anyone would point out that they are toy animals, not real ones.
they are toy animals, not real ones
A couple of them were real animals, and this is reflected in the stories.
In one of the stories, one of them says to the other "You and I have brains, the others have fluff".The two characters are
Owl and Rabbit.
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I mean, the dude studied zoology at Balliol College, Oxford, so he is an expert on the matter...
Someone take Dawkins to a zoo.
"Richard Dawkins confirms intelligent design mostly likely explanation"
Buzzkill
I'm sure there's regions where people have pigs and donkeys and there are bears and tigers in the woods.
However, it would not end up well for the pig or the donkey if they hung out
If someone released a donkey in East India this would be very plausible. Kangaroos on the other hand…
Yeah there's no way that Kanga hasn't beaten the shit out of them all already for getting too close to Roo, especially Tigger and Pooh.
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I like this guy less and less every day.
It is unlikely that this transphobe will be remembered in a positive light in ten years.
Uh oh, what did he do?
He claimed several times that transpeople were just the gender version of "Black Face", so much so they rescinded one of his humanism awards
Wild that you're getting downvoted, I didn't know people actually like Dawkins. Here's The Guardian's article
His wording is a bit harsh, but I don't think what he says should receive such a backlash. He expresses hard stances on religion as well, which can hurt people in a similar way as that's also part of their identity.
I think he's not entirely accurate here though, as there can really be biological mixes / nuances in the sex of people. Even if you exclude the gender discussion on top. It's all just a gradual thing I'd guess, even possibly inconsistent in 'percentage' on different parts of the body.
And all in all it's also dependent on our culture how we perceive some things as feminine and masculine.
I don't get why we can't agree that biologically people tend to be on a multidimensional spectrum, which sometimes is too ambiguous for the naked eye to pin a binary value on. Even scientifically it could be difficult to determine. Above all, on the gender side we indeed should have the courtesy to trust how someone feels and likes to be perceived in this world.
But we can also not blame people for expressing uneasiness if the biological sex and gender are too far apart in how we defined it culturally over thousands of years. One cannot avoid some conflict there.
Hopefully we can try to better ourselves and respect others, in both ways.
Remember that time he excused a woman getting sexually assaulted in an elevator by an Atheist, and he just shrugged it off as "A Muslim would have done worse" and claimed she was overreacting... haha... Dawkins is a piece of shit.
He has also argued for Non-Local Consciousness and claims to be a "Cultural Christian", so I wonder if he's even an Atheist anymore....
Do you have a source for that; what I could find in a quick Google about his statements on rape is his arguments on X is bad and Y is worse. Which is more of a logical argument, but this does not include "a Muslim would have done worse".
Quote by him: "Date rape is bad. Stranger rape at knifepoint is worse. If you think that's an endorsement of date rape, go away and learn how to think."
These statements are bound to be controversial as people might somehow interpret X is not bad as Y is worse. But I would disagree, this is more of a thought experiment in which you can always have a worse situation.
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If you were raised in "the West" then you are most likely passively "culturally Christian" too.
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claims to be a "Cultural Christian"
What does that even mean? If it includes "I put up Christmas lights" then I guess I'm a Christian too.
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