Ugh. What I mean is that they usually pair him up with a priest or something, which just reinforced the apples and oranges arguments you can see reflected here on TFP.
Also, Richard Dawkins is one of the smartest people alive today. Saying he has half a brain ignores his incredible acomplishments.
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Dawkins holds honorary doctorates in science from the University of Westminster, the University of Durham[71] and University of Hull, and an honorary doctorate from the Open University and from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.[2] He also holds honorary doctorates of letters from the University of St Andrews and Australian National University, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997 and Royal Society in 2001.[2] He is vice-president of the British Humanist Association.
Dawkins has won numerous awards, including the Royal Society of Literature Award (1987), Los Angeles Times Literary Prize (1987), Zoological Society of London Silver Medal (1989), Michael Faraday Award (1990), Nakayama Prize (1994), Humanist of the Year Award (1996), the fifth International Cosmos Prize (1997), Kistler Prize (2001), Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic (2001), and the Bicentennial Kelvin Medal of The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow (2002).[2] Dawkins topped Prospect magazine's 2004 list of the top 100 public British intellectuals, as decided by the readers, receiving twice as many votes as the runner-up.[72] In 2005, the Hamburg-based Alfred Toepfer Foundation awarded him their Shakespeare Prize in recognition of his "concise and accessible presentation of scientific knowledge".[73] Dawkins was the Galaxy British Book Awards Author of the Year for 2007.[74] Dawkins was listed in Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2007.[75]
Since 2003, the Atheist Alliance International has awarded a prize during their annual conferences, honouring an outstanding atheist whose work has done most to raise public awareness of atheism during that year. It is known as the "Richard Dawkins award", in honour of Dawkins' own work.[76]
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