Richard Dawkins, the world renowned atheist and celebrated author of "The God Delusion", started a major Twitter outrage Monday.

Sharing his infamous "logic" to approximately 900,000 Twitter followers, Dawkins categorized rape and pedophilia in varying degrees.

"Date rape is bad. Stranger rape at knifepoint is worse. If you think that's an endorsement of date rape, go away and learn how to think," he tweeted.

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Long before the outburst of comments ended, Dawkins once again applied his "logic" on another controversial issue.

"Mild pedophilia is bad. Violent pedophilia is worse. If you think that's an endorsement of mild pedophilia, go away and learn how to think," he later tweeted on Tuesday.

In response to the innumerable outraged comments to his tweets, the world renowned evolutionary biologist clarified his examples of "syllogism" in his succeeding posts.

"If you prefer to think date rape is worse than knifepoint, simply reverse my syllogism. To say Y is worse than X is not an endorsement of Y," Dawkins elucidated.

"Whether X or Y is worse is a matter of opinion. But it is a matter of LOGIC that to express that opinion doesn't mean you approve of either," he further explains.

Among those outraged by these Twitter posts is former Missouri Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin.

"In a disturbing series of tweets, famed biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins has attempted to dissect and tag 'rape' - and 'pedophilia' as well - like a species of frog," Atkin reacts.

The former representative further blasted Dawkins for describing such traumatic experiences with "impunity".

In another attempt to explain his purpose, Dawkins posted a more in-depth explanation entitled "Are there emotional no-go areas where logic dare not show its face?" in the Richard Dawkins Foundation website.

In reiterating his argument of not specifying which traumatic experience is worse than the other, the controversial author insisted that he was merely attempting to make a logical and reasonable point.

"I was merely asserting that to express an opinion one way or the other is not tantamount to approving the lesser evil," the author shared in his blog post on Wednesday.

He also responded to some people he believed to have fully understood his point yet chose to lambast his messages. Dawkins claimed that these people clearly opted to response based on a hypothetical quotation using their emotions.

Other commenters opined that the author should have used another example to illustrate his point. One of Dawkins' followers in Twitter advised that the atheist could have used "a broken nose" case to illustrate his "logic" instead.

These comments were also tackled in Dawkins' blog post. He acknowledged that the recommended examples would have been safer to use, but explained the need to choose the sensitive issues of rape and pedophilia.

"My belief that rationalists like us should be free to follow moral philosophic questions without emotion swooping in to cut off all discussion, however hypothetical," he justified.

In choosing rape and pedophilia as hypothetical examples, Dawkins purportedly prodded rationalists "to challenge the taboo, just as I want to challenge all taboos against free discussion."

Essentially, Dawkins reiterated that the alleged offensive posts were meant to open the minds of people to rationally discuss taboo or highly sensitive issues.

TagsRichard Dawkins, Todd Akins, Atheist, Rape, Pedophilia