For a long time I have been puzzled by Richard Dawkins. On the one hand he’s a very clever man. He can be superb at putting across a biological point to a general reader. On the other hand he has absolutely no grasp of psychology – he might understand genes, but he hasn’t a clue about people (see below for evidence of this).

I have come to the, admittedly tentative, hypothesis that Richard Dawkins is not the human being he appears, but an alien.

Here’s the evidence:
1. He displays a total lack of understanding of human motivation. On a TV show about the paranormal he said (I paraphrase) that people who go on stage claiming to have paranormal abilities must be fakes, because otherwise they’d submit themselves to scientific experiment, rather than make money out of their abilities. Hmm. Make loads of money or be disected as a guinea pig. Difficult choice. Only for an alien.

2. He puts a huge amount of effort into attacking religion. This is the most worrying of the bits of evidence, if he is an alien. People often turn to religion when being attacked – could this be an attempt to undermine us, should we be subject to alien invasion? This is particularly worrying as his job title implies he should be concerned about public understanding of science, yet his actions turn large numbers of people away from the subject because he is so rude about their beliefs.

3. He has recently made a statement that beggars belief, were it to have been said by an intelligent, rational human being. See Henry Gee’s blog

4. (And this is the clincher). He is married to someone who is an ex-actress, most famous for playing an alien in Doctor Who. Could he have thought that his wife really was a Time Lord when he married her?

Welcome to the twiglet (sic) zone.