Ethics

Lunch With Dawkins

By Ed Brayton

Just got back to the hotel after having lunch with Richard Dawkins. He came up and introduced himself and he said he recognized my name but couldn't remember where. I told him that I'd written about him over the years, sometimes taking him to task for various things, but that I was in general a big admirer of his.

He asked what I had taken him to task for and I mentioned the situation where he'd signed a petition in the UK calling for a law to prevent parents from teaching their children their religion. He did remember that and said he was glad to have his name off that petition. We ended up sitting at the same table for lunch, along with Rob Pennock, Carl Bajema and three others.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 02, 2009 (boomark / email).