The only disruption during the evening was a protester who spoke up during the question-and-answer session following the hour-long lecture.
The man carrying a yellow legal pad, who described himself as a biologist, condemned Dawkins, telling him to "shut the f--- up" and that the controversial scientist, a self-professed agnostic with strong atheistic leanings, would "burn in hell."
Dawkins gave a free public talk titled "The Purpose of Purpose" at 7 p.m. Friday in McCasland Field House on the OU Norman campus.
Most response to the lecture and to the man giving it was significantly more positive, with cheers and applause as Dawkins took the stage dying down into dwindling chuckles only after he admonished the crowd, "You haven't heard me yet."
-Article continued off site, courtesy The Norman Transcript.
