"My imaginary friend is better than your imaginary friend"

I have just finished The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. It is an entertaining and reasoned polemic on the subject of religion with the odd bit of a rant cropping up from time to time. I like a good rant. I was going to qualify that by saying that I like a good rant that I agree with, but the more I think about it, the more that I find counter examples. The important thing is that they are "good" - by which in this context I mean articulate and funny.

There is just one isolated thing which annoyed me though. Over the years Dawkins had a long running rivalry with Stephen Jay Gould over their approach to evolutionary biology. In this book, even though it is not primarily about evolutionary biology, Dawkins still takes the time to put the boot into Gould. He just didn't need to do that. The guy is dead. Give it a rest.