Richard Dawkins sues an employee

From here:

GLENDALE, Calif. (CN) – Evolutionary biologist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins claims an employee of his Foundation for Reason and Science embezzled $375,000 from the online store he ran for Dawkins’ charity, by claiming it made only $30,000 in 3 years.

Dawkins says he founded the charity to “support scientific education, critical thinking and evidence-based understanding of the natural world in the quest to overcome religious fundamentalism, superstition, intolerance and human suffering.”

Dawkins hired Josh Timonen in 2006 to run his website and produce videos for him, according to the Superior Court complaint. Timonen began working for the Foundation in 2007.

As we can see, scientific education, critical thinking and evidence-based understanding of the natural world doesn’t make a person honest. And why would it? If the employee’s critical thinking led him to conclude that he would get away with it, pilfering $375k would be a satisfying example of the fittest acquiring the means to improve his likelihood of survival.

Dawkins should be able to see that and is just being an old meany-pants for suing Timonen instead of applauding his Darwin inspired initiative.

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