ah no
maher: "you're a fucking idiot!"
dawkins: "you're an idiot. here's why."
I sort of feel that they are both righteous sanctimonious zealots.
Dawkins though was smart enough to read Hamilton's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._D._Hamilton PhD thesis and realise he could make his career out of popularising his ideas amongst the general public.
Fair play to Dawkins for teaching Hamilton's ideas, but how many of yis though the Selfish Gene was Dawkin's idea? Quite a lot I'd say.
How many of you had even heard of Hamilton?
As a scientist Dawkins does not matter. His books are cute though.
Maher on the other hand wouldn't understand a scientific idea unless it was presented to him is an animated series with fluffy bunny rabbits and kittens. He just gets something into his head, for whatever reason, and starts shouting about it.
He's basically Bill O'Reilly.