Archbishop takes on atheist Dawkins

[DonCoquixote]

49. half point

I can concede that Gilette may not be equal to Dawkins on biology, however, being able to sell a non thesit point of view should count, as that is what Dawkins at least pretends to do through his library shelf worth of books. However, I will grant that he is not equal to Dawkins in overall IQ or schooling, which means that Dawkins can join the estemmed ranks of edicated, high iq people that fall far short of the goal.

As far as Nietzche and Joe Sixpack, most of his writings are not adressed to joe sixpack, no, but the fact that out of all the people mentioned, he is the name most likely to show up outside of academia does show he did reach a alrger audience. If nothing else, the idea that some kid named Joe Schuster read Nietzche and made a comic book character called "Superman" based on ideas in "Thus Sprach Zarathustra" (a book about a superhuman prophet telling of a "superman" that is to come.) mens that Nietzche reached minds outside of academia, that did reach Joe Sixpack. Granted, it could be an accident that people read this comic book and then started asking what a "superman/ubermensch" would be like, even using another term from the same book "superhero" to describe said people. Yes, Neitzche shows up elsewhere in comic book land, as the "mutants" of marvel wrestle with whether humanity is somethign to be cherished, or transcended, but that is no surprise considering that writers used to hop back and froth between Marvel and DC.

The point is not that Fred Nietzche invented comic books, which are very much Joe Sixpack, but that6 his ideas influenced people well beyond the Academic types.