Comments on: Sometimes, a relationship to continue requires that someone be a hero. Richard Dawkins is a hero. https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/28/sometimes-a-relationship-to-co/ Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:55:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Jason Thibeault https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/28/sometimes-a-relationship-to-co/#comment-515433 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:55:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/28/sometimes-a-relationship-to-co/#comment-515433 Aww, the pointless blog drama has been resolved before I got to run in and throw gas on the train wreck.

Oh well, there will be more drama somewhere eventually. Such is the nature of the ‘tubes.

]]> By: Doazic https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/28/sometimes-a-relationship-to-co/#comment-515432 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:44:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/28/sometimes-a-relationship-to-co/#comment-515432 But nothing has been resolved, the site is still a mess, the Foundation is still a mess, the New Atheism is still a mess, etc etc etc. Dawkin’s isn’t cut out to be the Pope of Atheism.

The site has failed to do what it was created for as stated in “God Delusion” and should therefore be dismantled.

]]> By: Itzac https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/28/sometimes-a-relationship-to-co/#comment-515431 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:14:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/28/sometimes-a-relationship-to-co/#comment-515431 If ‘Outrage’ was written in the heat of the moment, then Richard Dawkins must be a very measured man indeed.

I have to agree with Monado; this was a very gracious apology that conceded his mistakes while still holding firm on his objectives.

Though in the end, I think IanW is right. People care about all this just a little too much.

]]> By: Monado https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/28/sometimes-a-relationship-to-co/#comment-515430 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:17:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/28/sometimes-a-relationship-to-co/#comment-515430 Greg is right. To stop an argument on the Internet someone has to be extraordinarily gracious, and Richard Dawkins was that someone. He sounds nothing like the politicians and preachers who cough up weasel-worded or mealy-mouthed “not-pologies”.

]]> By: IanW https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/28/sometimes-a-relationship-to-co/#comment-515429 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:28:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/28/sometimes-a-relationship-to-co/#comment-515429 Who cares? Seriously? Some people need to get a life.

]]> By: Grady https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/28/sometimes-a-relationship-to-co/#comment-515428 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:15:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/28/sometimes-a-relationship-to-co/#comment-515428 The apology is no more sincere of that that a politician who got caught screwing up.

Richard showed his contempt for the masses, but someone told him, “But Richard, this could cost your Foundation MONEY!”, and he coughed up the apology.

]]> By: Rorschach https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/28/sometimes-a-relationship-to-co/#comment-515427 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:42:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/28/sometimes-a-relationship-to-co/#comment-515427 Greg, the man is not a hero just because he realised just in time that his mate Timonen fucked stuff up and caused damage to RDF.

]]> By: gwen https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/28/sometimes-a-relationship-to-co/#comment-515426 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:32:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/28/sometimes-a-relationship-to-co/#comment-515426 Glad to know my respect for RD is well placed.

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