Another Fellow Traveler Takes on Dawkins

Another interesting critical review of Richard Dawkins, this time by Irish atheist Michael Fitzpatrick, for Spiked.

Fitzpatrick criticizes Dawkins' anti-religious bigotry and selective focus on the evils of religion, when there is a far bigger pseudo-scientific fish to fry (the radical environmental movement) in his own backyard, which, according to Fitzpatrick, is also far more destructive.

An acknowledgment of the reality of pseudo-science or junk science by Dawkins would knock him off the moral high ground. If science, or at least those who claim to love it, can be fanatical and irrational, then religion cannot be the sole force of evil in the world, or the sole opponent of progress.