My God has a bigger Forehead than Yours

Rating: 4 after 1 vote

Posted by Tara on June 30, 2008 at 12:01pm

Originally posted in Poetry in Pink Shoes

Image via Skeptic

One of my favorite authors is acclaimed scientist and famous atheist Richard Dawkins. His latest book, The God Delusion, reads like a psychological thriller. An earlier book, Unweaving the Rainbow, sends me into paroxysms of poetic delight every time. On a scale of 1 to 10 of whether you will write a poem after reading his books, I bet you a 10. You should go buy them both now.

However whenever I do a google search on Dawkins to gather material for a seasoned, researched article, I keep getting distracted by one thing. The size of Richard Dawkins' forehead. Seriously. Refer to the pictures. I have never seen anything like it. It beats out the forehead of a typical religious practitioner by at least two or three times. I compared it to my own frontal lobe and came out a chastened and humbled being.

I think I will go now and and do worship on the alter of Rich-Ard Daw-Kins, in hopes that I may gain access to that divine region, His Front Fore-Head.

Richard Dawkins' forehead is so big it won't

even fit on the page:

Image via BBC Blogs

The Pope: Not even close.

Image via Katie Halper

Tags: the, god, atheism, and, forehead, unweaving, dawkins, rainbow, dawkins', poetry

7 Comments

Comment by Katie on June 30, 2008 at 12:28pm: You should write to him and ask him about the Darwinian significance of the size of his forehead. I would be very interested to see what he has to say.

Comment by geoffrey on June 30, 2008 at 1:18pm: Loved the God Delusion.

Comment by Tara on June 30, 2008 at 1:34pm: Katie--me too! :) And he's always making references in his books to receiving e-mails from random people. But so far I've had no luck in locating his e-mail address. :(

Geoffrey--yes his books are pretty awesome. Do you have any other favorites by him?

Comment by Paul Davison on June 30, 2008 at 7:48pm: I don't know if you guys can tell from this picture <==== but my forehead seems to be getting longer lately. Does this mean I'm losing my faith?

Comment by Tara on June 30, 2008 at 10:00pm: Paul--oooo awesome forehead. What faith do you follow? Will have to look into it :P

Razorwire--yay! is it real? where on earth did you get it? I will totally have to dream up some e-mail to send him. :)