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Permalink Reply by Luke on May 17, 2011 at 1:12am

The Hawk's comments should take a bit of the "strident" heat of The Dawk.

Permalink Reply by Phil on May 19, 2011 at 2:48pm

It's such a pleasure to hear people of high repute telling it like it is. Most waste their lives avoiding "controversy" and talking trash for career advantage.

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on May 19, 2011 at 8:14pm

Actually, nowadays, talking trash does give them a career advantage, with the current atheist movement in the US.  It's all about momentum.  Once you get the thing moving, others pop up and apply force to keep it going, because it's suddenly safe to do so.

Permalink Reply by Phil on May 20, 2011 at 6:27am

Yes, it looks like we're near a tipping point. If another one or two other well-known figures added to the conversation started by Hawking and Dawkins, we could be on a roll.

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on May 20, 2011 at 5:01pm

I'm working on it; I'm working on it.

Permalink Reply by motrin on May 20, 2011 at 4:12am

they had that quote up on CNN and had people tweet in what they thought. and the guy read some comments out load on the air! damn.. i could of gone to tweeter if i wantted to