The Magic Of The Reality That Evolutionary Biologist Richard Dawkins Is A "Less Than Bright" Bright Who Does Not *Appreciate* Parody & Satire

To say nothing of the fact that Richard Dawkins is quite evidently not "Bright" enough to understand and appreciate the fact that *some* William S. Gilbert lyrics in 'The Major General's Song', such as

"I know the scientific names of beings animalculous,"

for *example*. . . are actually perfectly applicable to this world famous evolutionary biologist, and thus did not need to be changed aka mutated aka evolved aka Intelligently ReDesigned. . . one iota, in my parody version of Gilbert & Sullivan's 'The Major General's Song' known as 'The Atheist Supremacist's Song'.

I mean what *was* Richard Dawkins thinking when he brazenly and quite foolishly accused me of plagiarism of William S. Gilbert's lyrics in Tweeting -

"Even your rhymes were stolen directly from Gilbert."

Doh!

It seems that Richard Dawkins is truly a man of great faith, indeed a man of remarkably *blind* faith.

Not such a bright Bright that Richard Dawkins. . .

Without further ado, here is the Twitter thread in question -

1. Gordo Clayton ‏@Lopf

   haha, learn to scan! “@RichardDawkins: @RobinEdgar Learn to scan. If you even know the meaning of the word.”

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2. 11 JanRobin Edgar ‏@RobinEdgar

   @Lopf Oh wait! Is it possible that @RichardDawkins meant "learn to scan" like in that old #DavidCronenberg film? ;-)http://youtube.com/watch?v=YI3NoBeNwfk …

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3. 11 JanGordo Clayton ‏@Lopf

   @RobinEdgar @richarddawkins Heh heh perhaps

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4. 11 JanRobin Edgar ‏@RobinEdgar

   @Lopf I wonder who @RichardDawkins would want me to scan then? ;-) In any case, as I just Tweeted to Richard, it's not really my style...

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   11 JanGordo Clayton ‏@Lopf

   @RobinEdgar I just thought it funny his reply was to critique ur scansion. Classic. That was 1 of the great film scenes of my childhood btw

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6. 11 JanRobin Edgar ‏@RobinEdgar

   @Lopf I loved that #pretentious condescending response from @RichardDawkins. It just serves to prove my point that he's a #pompous ASS! ;-)

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7. 15hGordo Clayton ‏@Lopf

   @RobinEdgar @richarddawkins ...however, u did go out of ur way to give him an unsolicited insult. I dont think his response was pompous

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8. 1hRobin Edgar ‏@RobinEdgar

   @Lopf It was typically #arrogant & #condescending, and thus somewhat #pompous... for @RichardDawkins to say "if you even know the meaning".

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Richard DawkinsVerified‏@RichardDawkins

@RobinEdgar @Lopf Your replies showed that, amazingly, you DIDN'T know what scan means. Even your rhymes were stolen directly from Gilbert.

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1. 47mRobin Edgar ‏@RobinEdgar

   @RichardDawkins @Lopf ROTFLMU*UO! Richard old boy, DO learn to recognize #parody and #satire. If you even know the meaning of those two words.

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2. 11mRobin Edgar ‏@RobinEdgar

   @RichardDawkins @Lopf This reply shows that, not so amazingly, you DIDN'T know that the few rhymes "stolen directly from Gilbert" fit well.

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3. 42sRobin Edgar ‏@RobinEdgar

   @RichardDawkins @Lopf I mean you *DO* "know the #scientific names of beings #animalculous" don't you Richard? http://www.amiright.com/parody/2000s/gilbertsullivan0.shtml … #biology

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The Magic Of The Reality That Richard Dawkins Is A Pretentious Pompous ASS. . .

I had a little bit of fun @RichardDawkins expense over the weekend.

The Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, and pompous ASS (as in Atheist Supremacist Spokesperson), proved to be rather "less than scientific" in his two Tweets responding to a Tweet that I had posted calling his attention to my parody version of Gilbert & Sullivan's 'The Major General's Song' known as 'The Atheist Supremacist's Song'. . .

Richard Dawkins had posted a Tweet urging his Twitter followers to follow Daniel Dennett, who he described as "unpretentious" and someone who "works hard to be understood". Unlike Richard Dawkins himself of course, who is often quite pretentious, and who quite often goes out of his way to be offensive towards God believing people. . . I responded to this Tweet by graciously providing a link to 'The Atheist Supremacist's Song'. Richard responded to that Tweet by quite pretentiously and "less than clearly" saying -

"Learn to scan. If you even know the meaning of the word."

Of course the word "scan" has a variety of different meanings and I wasn't *quite* sure which meaning Richard Dawkins meant since, in his all too typical arrogance and pompousness and pretentiousness he had not worked very hard to be understood. . .

Without further ado here are the initial Tweets in question. . .

I will deal with Richard Dawkins' second pretentious, and indeed rather stupid, Tweet to me in a separate blog post entitled -

'The Magic Of The Reality That Evolutionary Biologist Richard Dawkins Is A "Less Than Bright" Bright Who Does Not *Appreciate* Parody & Satire'. . .

Enjoy!

1. Richard DawkinsVerified ‏@RichardDawkins

   Follow @DanielDennett. One of the world's premier intellectuals, but unpretentious and he works hard to be understood.

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2. 6hRobin Edgar ‏@RobinEdgar

   @RichardDawkins @danieldennett Do enjoy my #parody version of a famous Gilbert & Sullivan song Richard.http://   emersonavenger.blogspot.ca/2008/07/is-richard-dawkins-very-model-of.html … #Atheist #music

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@RobinEdgar Learn to scan. If you even know the meaning of the word.

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   4hGuiseppe ‏@jbrouder85

   @RichardDawkins @robinedgar I do like the term Atheist Supremacist though, regardless of how impossible it is to read that blog.

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2. 1hRobin Edgar ‏@RobinEdgar

   @RichardDawkins Well, like a good number of words, scan has several different meaning Richard. I'm not sure how any apply to my parody song.

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3. 1hRobin Edgar ‏@RobinEdgar

   @jbrouder85 You can thank @RichardDawkins, and some of his partners in crime such as P. Z. Myers, for inspiring the term Atheist Supremacist

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4. 1hRobin Edgar ‏@RobinEdgar

   @RichardDawkins Richard, thanks for so thoughtlessly providing evidence supporting my contention that you're anything but unpretentious. :-)

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5. 45mRobin Edgar ‏@RobinEdgar

   @jbrouder85 @RichardDawkins This web page with 'The #Atheist #Supremacist's Song' #lyrics might be easier on your eyes http://www.amiright.com/parody/2000s/gilbertsullivan0.shtml …

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6. 3mRobin Edgar ‏@RobinEdgar

   @RichardDawkins Richard old boy. Is *this* what you meant in saying "learn to scan"? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3NoBeNwfk …It's not really my style actually.

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7. nowRobin Edgar ‏@RobinEdgar

   @RichardDawkins I *did* say "I am open to suggestions for improvements." Here http://www.amiright.com/parody/2000s/gilbertsullivan0.shtml … If you can make it scan better go for it.

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"'cause you know sometimes words have two meanings. . ."

Led Zeppelin - 'Stairway To Heaven' ;-)

This Scantastic video clip showing someone who learned to scan courtesy of famous Canadian film director David Cronenberg. ;-)

Montréal Mayor Gérald Tremblay Strongly & Publicly Condemns SPVM Killings And Other SPVM Police Brutality Sorta. . .

The above parody captioned photograph of Montréal mayor Gérald Tremblay was inspired by the following quote that I just read in a Canoe.ca report titled 'Le maire «dégoûté»' -

"J'ai été et je suis encore dégoûté de la situation. Ma tolérance a atteint ses limites. Il semble que ça soit également le cas pour l'ensemble de la population montréalaise."

Translation -

"I was, and I still am, disgusted by the situation. My tolerance has reached its limits. It seems that this is equally the case for the entirety of the population of Montreal."

Mayor Tremblay was strongly and publicly condemning the annual March 15th protest against police brutality organized by the Collectif Opposé à la Brutalité Policière (COBP) (Collective Opposed to Police Brutality COPB), however it seems to *me* that Gérald Tremblay's strong words could just as justifiably be directed at the SPVM itself in light of a series of highly questionable police killings and other police brutality committed by officers of the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal, hence my parody image. . .

Nous Sommes Tous Francis Grenier

Le SPVM Recherche Des Victimes Potentielles. . . Un Tweet Envoyé Au Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal

On February 27, 2012, the SPVM aka Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal posted a Tweet about recent thefts in Montreal old people's homes to their @SPVM Twitter account -

Vols dans des résidences de personnes âgées : le SPVM recherche des victimes potentielles

Needless to say the second part of that @SPVM Tweet, which when translated into English says -

"The SPVM is looking for potential victims"

can be interpreted in more ways than one. . .

In light of the apparent proclivity of SPVM police officers to gun down homeless men and other people in psychological distress I could not restrain myself from responding to that poorly worded @SPVM Tweet with the following play on words aka jeu de mots -

@SPVM Des personnes sans-abri et d'autres individus dans la #détresse #psychologique : le #SPVM recherche des #victimes potentielles. . .

Here is a screen shot of my Tweet responding to that @SPVM Tweet -



I am also embedding that Tweet below -

@SPVM Des personnes sans-abri et d'autres individus dans la #détresse #psychologique : le #SPVM recherche des #victimes potentielles. . .

— Robin Edgar (@RobinEdgar) February 29, 2012

It seems that the SPVM aka Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal were at a loss for words as to how to respond to my waggish play on words that none-the-less sent them a deadly serious message about their highly questionable habit of shooting first and not bothering to ask questions later. . .

The Colorado Coalition Of Reason Anti God Billboard Advertisements Proclaiming That "God Is An Imaginary Friend" Are Lacking In Reason

In more ways than one. . .

As reported in The Huffington Post article titled -

Atheist Group Pays For Billboards That Read: 'God Is An Imaginary Friend'

the Colorado Coalition of Reason aka COCORE has commissioned some billboard advertisements to be displayed in Denver and Colorado Springs, Colorado, which proclaim that "God Is An Imaginary Friend" and call upon people to "Choose Reality". As per my comment responding to this comment by Huffington Post Super User jimspy the atheistic (if not outright anti-theistic. . .) advertising slogan chosen by the Colorado Coalition Of Reason for its 2012 billboard campaign is lacking in Reason, as are some of the public statements that COCORE has made in defense of this questionable billboard slogan.

Without further ado here is the full text of my original Huffington Post comment which had to be Reader's Digested a bit because it was somewhat longer than the 250 words that HuffPost allows for comments. A screenshot of the condensed version of the comment, as it was actually posted to the Huffington Post blog, may be read below -

What part of the Colorado Coalition of Reason's billboard advertisement -

"God Is An Imaginary Friend - Choose Reality, It Will Be Better For All Of Us."

did you fail to understand Jimspy?

*That* billboard slogan is in fact a rather dogmatic public assertion of the ahem. . . positive belief that "there is no God."

Am I wrong?

Gotta love the following BS from COCORE -

"If you disagree with the sentiments of the sign, please don't be offended. We are more interested in opening a dialogue than upsetting you. We don't ask you to stop believing in your version of a super-natural being. We do ask that you consider not forcing your religious views on others."

Where does the Colorado Coalition of *Reason* come up with the rather unreasonable idea that displaying billboard advertisements telling ALL God believing people, and thus the vast majority of Americans. . . that they are not only lacking in reason, but are out of touch with reality (and thus quite delusional as per Richard Dawkin's 'The God Delusion') in their belief in an "imaginary friend', is in no way intended to be offensive or "upsetting"?

The 2008 billboards that said, "Don't believe in God? You are not alone.", are not offensive to God believing people, but I have good old Unitarian *reason* to believe that the Colorado Coalition of Reason will rapidly discover that these new billboard advertisements, which quite dogmatically assert that God does not exist and not at all subtly suggest that all theists are out of touch with reality, are offensive and upsetting to a certain number of God believing Americans.

It never ceases to amaze me just how devoid of Reason some self-professed "rationalists" are. . .

Greek Orthodox Priests & Armenian Monks Brawling At The Church Of The Nativity In Bethlehem Inspire A Brand-Spanking New Christmas Carol. . .

Here are my new lyrics for 'Deck The Halls' inspired by this incident.

Clock their heads with brooms of folly,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Tis the season to be brawly,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.

Don we now our black apparel,
Fa la la, la la la, la la la.
Droll the crazy YouTube video,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.

See the bloody fools before us,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Strike their foes and join the ruckus.
Fa la la la la, la la la la.

Follow me in merry laughter,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
While I tell of this disaster,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.

Fast away the old year passes,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Hail the new, ye cads and asses,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.

Fight we clerics, all together,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Heedless of the video camera. . .
Fa la la la la, la la la la