[kirklancaster]

The word 'ignorant' is like a bullet - in itself it may be harmless, but once loaded into a gun with other words; namely; 'Stupid' and 'Insane', then 'it' and 'they' become potentially wounding. Once that gun is pointed at a group of innocent people for no other reason than that they legitimately disagree with your opinion, and the trigger is pulled, then such an action can only be deemed as unjustifiable and 'offensive'.

There are hundreds of millions - if not billions - of people in this world who do not believe in Darwin's theories or in Evolution, and a huge proportion of these are eminent scientists - experts in such fields as; Molecular Evolution, Organic Chemistry, Biology, Bioengineering, Biomechanics, Microbiology, Entomology, Molecular Biology , Anatomy & Cell Biology , Botany, Bacterial Genetics ,Protein Chemistry, Thermodynamics and Combustion, Bioprocess Engineering etc. etc.

Specially notable scientists Include:

1945 Nobel Prize winning scientist Ernst Chain.
Malcom Muggeridge, Pascal Lectures, Ontario Canada, University of Waterloo
Dr John Sanford (Geneticist and inventor of the GeneGun
William J. Arion, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry Cornell University
Vladimir L. Voeikov, Vice-Chairman, Chair of Bio-organic Chemistry, Faculty of Biology Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia)

Along with hundreds of millions of 'lay people', Dorkins branded all these eminent, highly intellectual, extensively knowledgeable scientists as; "Ignorant, stupid or insane", and it is beyond dispute that he was being arrogant, unfair, and wholly offensive when he did so, and beyond dispute that he attacked these notables for no other reason that they DARED to disagree with his extreme, close-minded views.