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[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's actually even more unlikely that they would be able to learn how to talk. This guy's clearly not a very good scientist if he missed that.

[–] NegativeInf 52 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'd be questioning the unique selective pressures that caused the hundred acre wood to produce sentient stuffing filled animals.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I mean, if it's the Red Forest, anything is possible

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Darwin's got his finches, Dawkins has his teddy, each instrumental to the modern understanding of natural selection.

[–] Opisek 3 points 2 months ago

Or he knows something we don't...

[–] waigl 58 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Unlike with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, with Dawkins, I would be quite surprised if he brought that up without being quite specifically asked about it…

[–] SonnyVabitch 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's probably from an hour long portrait interview, in which they cover a lot of ground including favourite English literary pieces, and the interviewer tries to tie it to the guest. They would probably ask David Beckham which Harry Potter character he'd have on his football team.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dawkins would have shitposted on Twitter with the best of them if he'd been born later

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But, now hear me out, what if there was also a rabbit?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why stop there? Owl! Tiger! Kangaroo!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Tigger. There's a double-guh.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's morphin' time!

[–] spirinolas 30 points 2 months ago

Yeah, not with that attitude, Richard.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This looks like something from Viz magazine. They'll regularly have big one page jokes about something and then have these little made up side bits in.

Whole thing was probably about illegal immigrants taking small boats to the hundred acre wood and then there's this little bit in the bottom.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Here's an example. The thoughts of the 1966 world cup winning squad on the disappearance of Lord Lucan

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[–] TOModera 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I mean, he's a Tigger, not a Tiger, so that's off.

[–] TheBat 7 points 2 months ago

Bruh you can't just drop the t-word like that

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[–] ParabolicMotion 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think those animals would be stitched together with cloth and stuffed with cotton, either.

[–] NABDad 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I came here looking to see if anyone would point out that they are toy animals, not real ones.

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[–] essteeyou 9 points 2 months ago

Someone take Dawkins to a zoo.

[–] Entropywins 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, the dude studied zoology at Balliol College, Oxford, so he is an expert on the matter...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And yet his statement is missing the oxford comma

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[–] homesweethomeMrL 7 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

"Richard Dawkins confirms intelligent design mostly likely explanation"

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 5 points 2 months ago

I'm sure there's regions where people have pigs and donkeys and there are bears and tigers in the woods.

However, it would not end up well for the pig or the donkey if they hung out

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

If someone released a donkey in East India this would be very plausible. Kangaroos on the other hand…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah there's no way that Kanga hasn't beaten the shit out of them all already for getting too close to Roo, especially Tigger and Pooh.

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[–] AncientFutureNow 2 points 2 months ago

I like this guy less and less every day.

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