Snake species do not have vocal chords. Please explain how they could possibly ‘talk’ as you refer to the specific way in which parrots mimic speech without having any biological systems with which to properly intercourse.

He’s an Oxford professor, you’d hope he would be.

This is the thing … Dawkins is a heavyweight academic, schooled in the English education system. When he’s arguing with someone, he’s going to have the courtesy to bring facts and logic and reasoning and authority to the table – if someone debating him doesn’t have the courtesy to even define terms, it’s going to look like steamrolling.

He’s not *arrogant*, he’s *right*. If you disagree with that, explain how he’s wrong, and explain how using words that mean what words normally mean and worked counterexamples. If you can’t, don’t be surprised if you look and are treated like an idiot.

And I love the Dawkins analogy on “imaginary friends.” Isn’t that so poignant? That is my new anti-religion slogan, “I don’t expect you to play with my imaginary friends, why must you insist I play with yours?” I’m always looking for a quick way to sum up the lunacy of insisting someone ELSE adopt your supernatural belief system.

The if clause there is important.

Yet a little after four minutes and fourteen seconds into the interview, Dawkins said of Collins, “Maybe he believes in some kind of God. Maybe he even believes in Jesus Christ.” There’s be no reason for those maybes if Dawkins had recalled that Collins was an Evangelical Christian. Perhaps Dawkins’ memory of his debate with Collins was fuzzy, but in any case, he did not show in the interview that he knew that Collins was a Christian.

but Dawkins seemed to not even know that Collins was a Christian.

That’s not true… Dawkins knows full well that Collins is an Evangelical Christian. Their names graced the cover of Time magazine because they debated on the existence of God. Several times, Collins’ Christianity was brought up.

I think Dawkins thought his Christianity was limited to saying God created us via evolution… Dawkins didn’t think Collins believed in Genesis literally. And when Maher mentioned it, Dawkins was taken aback.

I finished watching the show a few minutes ago (and after Maher’s comments about girls’ bullying it may be the last time I watch his show), and Dawkins appeared to change his mind about whether Collins believes in the “talking snake” after Maher told him that Collins did believe it. I rewatched the interview from the clip, and not only did I not hear him refer to Collins’ book, but Dawkins seemed to not even know that Collins was a Christian.