Richard Dawkins Struggles With the Whole Logic Thing

Via Carthago Delenda Est, this:

Because a university science department would be justified in turning down holders of these beliefs, Dawkins wishes us to think, it follows that UK was justified in rejecting Gaskell. Dawkins's illustrations are three cases of Biblical literalist YEC belief and three fantasy beliefs the likes of which no one you'll ever meet actually holds, certainly no one who could rise to a level of scientific achievement where hiring him to teach at a university would come up for practical discussion.

I don't necessarily buy ID, but I have noticed a similarity between ID-opponents and AGW-proponents: the willingness to malign and conflate their opponents.

If an Inquisition existed today, Dawkins would run it with glee