Is Richard Dawkins a scientist?

There are many ways to interpret data about evolution. But are you saying morality is a result of evolution, just not due to adaptation? If so, which of the 4 drivers that Myers talks about would you guess is responsible?

Farmerman's points are correct. He was an influential scientist...He defends evolutionary psychology by suggesting that it offends people as opposed to presenting scientific research to support it.

My understanding is that evolution hasn't explained everything yet. So presenting evolution that way would be a different kind of pulpit which also doesn't belong in a science class.

Call it a secular religion if you will, or call it something else entirely. The Humanism I have been discussing in this piece does bear strong similarities to conventional religion. One finds the enthusiasm of the true believer, and this encourages a set of unnerving attributes: intolerance, hero-worship, moral certainty and the self-righteous condemnation of unbelievers. As an atheist Darwinian evolutionist, as one who is a humanist in the broader sense, this makes me feel really ill.

“It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).” ― Richard Dawkins

something of a moderate historical event is approaching, the decision of Kitzmiller v. Dover will be 10 years old in December 20 2015

http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2015/10/10th-anniversar.html#more

I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of brute force. I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me. I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect.

Yours sincerely and cordially, Charles Darwin" (Darwin to Asa Gray, [a minister] May 22, 1860)

“My theology is a simple muddle; I cannot look at the universe as the result of blind chance, yet I can see no evidence of beneficent design, or indeed of design of any kind, in the details.” Charles Darwin, letter to J.D. Hooker (1861)

My only reservation about how evolution is taught is when it is presented as 'Evolution Explains Everything'.

...most conclusions of science are lightly delivered with as many references to all the counter possibilities , so that when we read a journal article its sometimes difficult to determine whether there are any conclusions at all.

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” (Bertrand Russell)

"The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so." (Mark Twain)

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert...this or that...(Charles Darwin)

"To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice." (Ambrose Bierce)

Bierce got that from LUCY in Peanuts

"The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so." (Mark Twain)

Its not relevant. It's just my favorite Twain quote.

“Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it” (Twain)

Leadfoot Quote:
"My only reservation about how evolution is taught is when it is presented as 'Evolution Explains Everything'."

I really dont know where soma you guys get this ****.
In most cases, schools dont want to teach evolution in BIOLOGY aqt all.