Yes, the man who posits that it’s more probable that aliens, who evolved in a Darwinian fashion seeded the Earth with living organisms which also evolved in a Darwinian fashion, was voted the world’s top thinker.
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That’s right, the same one who advises fellow Atheists to respond to the religious with contemptuous mockery and ridicule while himself avoids and backs out of debates.
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I’m at a bit of a loss. The mind that produced The God Delusion which was comical in its “reasoning” wins the world’s top thinker? Then again, Paul Krugman made the list. I wonder who got to vote.
Sifting Reality 
Perhaps they meant the “World’s Top Imaginative Thinker”
It’s a well known fact that he asserts his opinion to be 99% correct because if he asserts 100% then he’s implying omniscience which is what he’s trying to disprove.
I don’t find Richard Dawkins especially intelligent.
The man may or may not be a good biologist, but as a philosopher, he’s as dumb as a post.
That’s exactly it Kunoichi, he is trying to make a place for himself outside his specialty and doesn’t have the personal humility to take correction.
Maybe it just means he does a lot of it. Thinking, that is. The thoughts might not have to be brilliant in order to earn the title. A possibility. He’s certainly not brilliant.
I think this is a little strange whether you like Dawkins or not. There are physicist out there literally discovering new particles and biologist curing cancer and aids. I feel like those people are a little more “top thinker” material than an outspoken atheist.
But that’s it, he’s not even a top thinking atheist. There are many atheist activists who I believe to be better thinkers than he.
Great point.