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Professor Dawkins on Class D
2008-06-21 08:09:00 Professor Dawkins (Otago School of Law) on Class D(recorded at the Dunedin Cannabis Week, May 2008)Blair Andersonhttp://mildgreens.blogs-pot.comGet Blairs Brain on Newsfeed... http://feeds.feedburner.com/Bla-irsBrain-CanvassingForOpinion
Discussion: Richard Dawkins & Lawrence Krauss
2008-04-24 15:05:00 This is a very interesting discussion between two rather well-known and well-mediatized scientist: famous anti-god and anti-religion flagbearer Richard Dawkins and physicist Lawrence Krauss one of the many pretenders to the throne of former physics/astrophysics for the layperson champion Carl Sagan. It is a very interesting discussion, about the agelong conflict between science ...
By: Loopy's Manifold
Richard Dawkins on Bill Maher (April 11, 2008)
2008-04-15 17:20:00 Dawkins and Maher discuss the popularity of books such as Dawkins’ “The God Delusion”, as well as other recent anti-faith books by authors such as Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, the brightness of Francis Collins - evangelical Christian and esteemed geneticist, and the possibility of a death-bed conversion by Dawkins. ...
Richard Dawkins revela o milagre de Fátima
2008-04-05 17:11:00 Extraído de "Desvendando o Arco-Íris - Ciência, Ilusão e Encantamento", de Richard Dawkins, Cia. das Letras, 2000, págs 179-180.David Hume, grande filósofo escocês do século XVIII, me parece inatacável:... nenhum testemunho é suficiente para estabelecer um milagre, a menos que o testemunho seja de tal ordem que sua falsidade seria mais milagrosa do que o fato que procura estabelecer. ("Of Miracles", 1748)Vou observar o preceito de Hume com respeito a um dos milagres mais bem atestados de todos os tempos, que dizem ter sido testemunhado por 70 mil pessoas e que ainda está dentro do alcance da memória viva. É a aparição de Nossa Senhora de Fátima. Cito um relato de um website católico romano, no qual se observa que, dentre as muitas alegadas aparições de Maria, essa é incomum por ser oficialmente reconhecida pelo Vaticano. Em 13 de outubro de 1917, havia mais de 70 mil pessoas reunidas na Cova da Iria em Fátima, Portugal. Tinham vindo para observar um milagre qu...
By: Reduto dos Ateus
P.Z. Myers Trojan Horse for Godless Dawkins
2008-03-31 10:21:00 I just saw this on Coming Anarchy and I laughed so hard it deserves to be passed on. We all know who P.Z. Myers is, as did those responsible for the screening of anti-Darwinist propaganda screed Expelled who, c/o the police, booted him out of a recent showing. You’d think his far more famous atheist ...
By: KuiperCliff
El rap de Richard Dawkins
2008-03-30 22:42:00 Impresionante. Sublime. Original.DarkSapiens de Critical Thinking, me dejó este enlace de youtube en el chat de la derecha. Es simplemente impagable.Saludos
Pony Darryl Dawkins Uptown - Navy / Red / White and Red / White / Navy
2008-03-29 00:00:00 Darryl Dawkins was given the nickname Chocolate Thunder during his playing days in the '70s where he would shatter backboards and posterize any defender who got in his way. While he was becoming one the best dunker's in the history of the NBA, he wore the Pony Uptown. To honor ...
By: Sneakerfiles
Richard Dawkins and Douglas Adams, on the purpose of things, and a certain
2008-03-13 23:08:00 I just stumbled upon this, by browsing through a couple of other Dawkins-related videos on YouTube. I didn’t know such a thing even existed, though I knew Dawkins and Adams were friends, of course. Anyway, if you’re a fan of either, you’ll love this: While not very well known compared to others, this was always one ...
By: Way of the Mind
More on the Dawkins / Hitchens / Dennett / Harris discussion (part 4): Crea
2008-03-13 21:09:00 Like before, before, before and before, just click on the image to go to the Richard Dawkins site and download / watch the entire discussion. Sam Harris: You can invent an ideology, which by your mere invention in that moment, is obviously untrue, which would be quite useful if propagated, to billions. I mean, you ...
By: Way of the Mind
Richard Dawkins Video from UW Madison
2008-03-12 13:42:00 As a follow up to yesterday's article discussing Richard Dawkins' lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Pratha Muthiah wrote a review of the speech in the Badger Herald. Here are a few excerpts: According to Dawkins, belief in the supernatural is a delusion and only the workings of nature can be considered divine. Dawkins described the idea of the “Supreme Watchmaker” — the argument that the intricacy of the universe necessitates a maker just as a watch does — as “one of the most superficial, plausible, bad arguments against Darwin.” Dawkins said religion can be replaced with science, since scientific study can effectively satisfy the same psychological need religion is said to fill. When asked what one message he wanted students to walk away with after Tuesday’s lecture, Dawkins said it was the importance of evidence and thinking for oneself. “Think critically for yourself,” Dawkins said. “Don’t believe what people tell you unless they give you ...
The Inspirational Richard Dawkins Speaks Tonight!
2008-03-11 21:49:00 Corey Sheahan, history and economics senior at University of Wisconsin-Madison wrote a great op-ed piece today in his school’s newspaper, The Badger Herald. In it he extends an invitation for all students to attend this evening’s (March 11, 2008) lecture by Richard Dawkins. Here are the first two paragraphs of the article: Tonight, University of Wisconsin welcomes professor Richard Dawkins to our campus as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series. Mr. Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist, is best known in this country for his best-selling work, “The God Delusion.” I will be attending the lecture tonight, and I whole-heartedly encourage everyone — religious and non-religious people alike — to attend as well. While Mr. Dawkins is best known as an atheist, I suspect that if you asked him, the word “atheist’” would not be the first term he would use to describe himself. If you get anything from his lecture tonight, I hope you recognize that Mr. Dawkins is not a nihili...
More on the Dawkins / Hitchens / Dennett / Harris discussion (part 3): "God
2008-03-06 14:19:00 As always, click on the image for the source and to download the videos, yada yada yada. Christopher Hitchens: You had a marvelous quotation from Francis Collins, the genome pioneer, who said, while mountaineering one day, he was so overcome by the landscape, and then went down on his knees and accepted Jesus Christ. ...
By: Way of the Mind
More on the Dawkins / Hitchens / Dennett / Harris discussion (part 2): the
2008-03-04 15:36:00 Like before, just click on the picture above to go to the source, download or watch the 2-hour video, and so on. Also like before, I’m going to post and comment on one of my favorite parts of the discussion between the “four horsemen of atheism”. Daniel Dennett: Right. And you know this, what you just said Christopher, actually, I think, strikes terror, it strikes anxiety, in a lot of religious hearts. Because it just hasn’t been brought home to them that this move of theirs is just off-limits. It’s not the game. You can’t do that. And they’ve been taught all their lives that you can do that - this is a legitimate way of conducting a discussion. And here, suddenly we’re just telling them “I’m sorry, that is not a move in this game”. In fact it is a disqualifying move. [..] Christopher Hitchens: Adumbrate the move for me a bit, if you would, or for us. Perhaps only for me. Say what you think that move is. Dennet...
By: Way of the Mind
More on the Dawkins / Hitchens / Dennett / Harris discussion (part 1)
2008-02-29 16:48:00 As a follow-up to my previous post on the subject, I want to share — and comment on — some of the best parts (IMO) of the conversation between the “four hoursemen”, which I still recommend that you watch in full (just click on the image above and download the files, if possible, or at ...
By: Way of the Mind
2 Hours with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Dan Dennett and Christopher Hitch
2008-02-28 14:43:00 This is not very new (it’s from December 2007), but I only found the time today to watch it, and I found it intellectually delicious. Four brilliant minds (who don’t agree in many ways) having a fascinating (and polite!) discussion about religion and atheism. Please, watch it. Really. Just click on the image above. I ...
By: Way of the Mind
Gradual Illumination of the Mind
2008-02-28 07:58:00 This article, posted by Michael Shermer back in February 2002, really makes a few good points regarding Evolutionary Theory, Science, our public schooling systems, etc: In one of the most existentially penetrating statements ever made by a scientist, Richard Dawkins concluded that ?the universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, ...
By: ZA Vibes
Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
2008-02-23 01:20:00 Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think???:?????????????????# Author: Alan Grafen, Mark Ridley # Format:PDF 1.0MB# Page Count: 304 pages# Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; New Ed edition (May 17, 2007)# Language: English# ISBN-10: 0199214662# ISBN-13: 978-0199214662Reading this volume, it is evident that The Selfish Gene-Richard Dawkins's seminal text that described how "genes have evolved the means to transform the world's resources in ever more ingenious ways"-continues to have a powerful impact on the scientific community. These 26 essayists offer a glistening blend of praise and personal reflection on both the nature of the author and on the reach of his work. "A phenomenon such as Dawkins' The Selfish Gene can be seen from many points of view and set in many contexts," notes co-editor Grafen. So, while Helena Cronin (The Ant and the Peacock) writes, "Like Einstein's imagined ride on a beam of light, this is an invitation to journey into unreachable ...
Dawkins to Target Creationism
2008-02-14 03:32:00 The Bookseller is reporting that publisher Free Press has bought the U.S. rights to Richard Dawkins? next book, "for a reported $3.5m" and UK rights have gone to Transworld for a "substantial sum" (I think I'm converting to atheism before writing my next book...). The new book from Dawkins is said to explore creationism and the evidence for evolution: The as-yet-untitled volume will be published in 2009, a year that will feature a double anniversary for Charles Darwin?the 200th anniversary of his birth in February, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species in November. Gaminara said: "He is arguably the science writer most closely associated with Darwin and in my view it would be strange not to have a book by Richard Dawkins in this anniversary year. "He feels that never in his lifetime has there been such a belief in creationism, in the US and also creeping into the school curriculum in this country, and as the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public U...
As Richard Dawkins says, some of us just go one god further
2008-02-12 03:07:00 From Matterr via The Friendly Atheist A question and a comment: Whyis Buddhaon this list? Isn’t Buddha said to havesimply been a creative, deep-thinking, compassionate and insightful human male? Including the Flying Spaghetti Monster probably would have put things further into perspective.
Baptist fundamentalists hold mock Richard Dawkins funeral, burn him in effi
2008-02-04 19:14:00 On February 1st, some psychotic delusionals of the Baptist fundamentalist variety held a mock funeral for Richard Dawkins. During the service, Dawkins was admonished to repent to the lord or that he will burn for all eternity. He was then condemned for his disbelief, immediately before an effigy of Dawkins was set in flames by ...
Richard Dawkins at TED 2002: Laying the ground work for the atheist/rationa
2008-02-04 05:49:00 A reader, Stuart, recommended that I post the video of Richard Dawkins at TED 2002. While many readers will have already seen this footage, it is highly recommended for those that have not (particularly for those not particularly up-to-date on the issues behind the push for secularism and reason in all corners of human contemplation). ...
Dawkins, um delírio
2008-02-03 22:29:00 Artigo do site Saindo da Matrix, em que o autor critica Richard Dawkins. Agora é minha vez de criticar o autor desse artigo, embora concorde com ele em algumas poucas passagens. Meus comentários em vermelho.Post original: http://www.saindodamatrix.com.b-r/archives/2007/08/dawkins_um_d-eli.htmlDigamos que apareça um barbudo de turbante falando que sua missão é converter as pessoas para Deus, generalizando que um "povo sem Deus" não tem moral e é corrupto. E convocando outros religiosos como ele a se unirem em sua luta contra esse estado de coisas. Esse homem seria visto como um louco, um fanático religioso, e por um momento você desejaria que ele estivesse preso na base militar de Guantánamo com um capuz na cabeça.Comentário: esse exemplo acontece todos os dias. Basta andar na Av. Paulista. E ninguém os considera loucos ou algo que o valha. Apenas fanáticos, coitados. Nenhum deles vai para Guantánamo. Mas, quando este homem tem a barba feita e tem título de cientista, f...
By: Reduto dos Ateus
Richard Dawkins? Memorial
2008-02-03 15:55:00 Just when you think Christians can’t get any weirder, they do. A group called “Preaching your Funeral” recently held a ‘funeral’ for Richard Dawkins wherein they burned an effigie of him: Keep in mind that the so-called edumacated theologists insist that fear, hell and all that silly shit is not what people actually believe. ...
By: Bligbi
Dawkins denounces religion of its faulty logic in 'The God Dilusion'
2008-01-31 13:00:00 The God Dilusion, a scientific compilation by Richard Dawkins is a strong advocation against the the faulty logic of religion. Here he sputters at the inconsistencies and cruelties that riddle the Bible and makes a compelling case that beleiving in God is not just irrational ,but potentially deadlly. Buy from: Amazon.com
By: BooksBuzz
Richard Dawkins answers questions
2008-01-29 19:43:00 The following video is an excerpt of a talk Professor Dawkins gave a Macon’s last year. A young woman asks him that time worn question of “what if you’re wrong” and his response is priceless: The text as I heard it: Well, what if I’m wrong? I mean, anybody could be wrong. We could all be wrong ...
By: Bligbi
Respostas de Richard Dawkins às críticas de "Deus, um delírio"
2008-01-26 03:32:00 Repostado de 1001 gatos.NÃO SE PODE CRITICAR A RELIGIÃO SEM UMA ANÁLISE DETALHADA DE LIVROS ERUDITOS DE TEOLOGIA.Best-seller-surpresa?- Se eu tivesse me embrenhado, como um crítico intelectual consciente gostaria, nas diferenças epistemológicas entre Aquino e Duns Scotus; se tivesse feito jus a Erígena na questão da subjetividade, a Rahner na da graça ou a Moltmann na da esperança (como ele esperou em vão que eu fizesse), meu livro teria sido mais que um best-seller- surpresa: teria sido um best-seller milagroso. Mas a questão não é essa. Diferentemente de Stephen Hawking (que seguiu o conselho de que cada fórmula que ele publicasse reduziria as vendas pela metade), eu de bom grado abriria mão do status de best-seller caso houvesse a mais remota esperança de que Duns Scotus fosse iluminar minha questão central, se Deus existe ou não. A enorme maioria dos textos teológicos simplesmente assume que ele existe, e parte daí. Para os meus propósitos, preciso levar em ...
By: Reduto dos Ateus
Ontological Argument: The Playground Version
2008-01-09 17:31:00 Richard Dawkins writes about the Ontological Argument in The God Delusion: Let me translate this infantile argument into the appropriate language, which is the language of the playground: ‘Bet you I can prove God exists.’ ‘Bet you can’t.’ ‘Right then, imagine the most perfect perfect perfect thing possible.’ ‘Okay, now what?’ ‘Now, is that perfect perfect perfect thing real? Does it ...
Dawkins on faith
2007-12-24 15:36:00 I […] think that basing your beliefs upon blind faith rather than upon evidence is potentially very dangerous, because you can’t argue against it. - Richard Dawkins (in an interview) Copyright © 2007 Way of the Mind
By: Way of the Mind
Dawkins to preach atheism to US
2007-12-24 00:58:00 RICHARD DAWKINS, the British scientist who has become the high priest of atheism, is launching a crusade in America to win new recruits to the church of nonbelievers. He is to embark on a lecture tour of 2,000-seater halls in the Bible Belt and the Midwest in the wake of the presidential primary season, which reaches ...
Fact-Checking Richard Dawkins [The Corpus Callosum]
2007-12-02 02:37:00 In the book, The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins makes a statement that led one reader to feel the need to check up on him: I’ve been reading through Richard Dawkins’ books and am currently half way through The Blind Watchmaker (2006 paperback edition) and on page 119 he writes: In my computer’s ROM, location numbers 64489, 64490 and 64491, taken together, contain a particular pattern of contents—1s and 0s which—when interpreted as instructions, result in the computer’s little loudspeaker uttering a blip sound. This bit pattern is 10101101 00110000 11000000. Of course, this piqued my curiosity. Did Dawkins just make that up, or is this really the contents of a specific bit of memory on a specific computer? The original post is here. The book was published in 1986, back in the days when regular folks still knew how to skin pigs, change their spark plugs, and check the contents of specific ROM addresses. &...
Pony Uptown Darryl Dawkins
2007-11-26 00:00:00 Darryl Dawkins also known as Chocolate Thunder was a monster dunker back in the '70s and was remembered by most for shattering the glass of the back board. While breaking the glass he wore the Pony Uptown. Pony will be releasing a limited edition Uptown inspired by Chocolate Thunder. The ...
By: Sneakerfiles
Dawkins A Special Player
2007-11-15 19:38:00 The Eagles needed Sunday's win over Washington desperately, and when a team is desperate, crazy things happen.Crazy things like a six-time Pro Bowl safety covering kickoffs.After Brian Westbrook's incredible 57-yard touchdown potentially saved Philadelphia's season, Brian Dawkins didn't want to see the kickoff coverage unit cough up the lead. That's why when they took the field to kick the ball back to the Redskins, Dawkins was with them - for, according to his memory - the first time in seven or eight years."That was just something that was a spur of the moment type thing; something that I wanted to do to help out," Dawkins said. "If I made the play, great; if I didn't, then hopefully I'd be out there to help the guys out and hopefully not allow a big play to happen."Dawkins said that after deciding he was going to cover the kick, there was no way he was staying on the sideline."I just felt like it was something I had to do and wanted to do. I didn't really ask to go in, I ...
Richard Dawkins on the O'Reilly Factor
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By: BrawnyHunk
Richard Dawkins at Atheist Alliance Convention
2007-11-06 14:12:00 Author of The God Delusion at international assemblyDawkins is at his best as he addresses critics who say he's been too aggressive and strident in his views about religion.Part 1Part 2Both videos are linked from RichardDawkins.netTo view Sam Harris' address at the 2007 AAI Convention click here.
Deconversion story posted on Dawkins' forums - ironic or not? We report...y
2007-10-31 09:27:00 Here is a post from the Dawkins' forums that essentially credits us, and specifically the Nightline debacle with Cameron/Comfort, for his deconversion from christianity. I find this terribly ironic since some of the regulars at the RDF site are extremely critical of us and our methods, some even going so far as saying that we will never affect anybody's beliefs and that we somehow harm atheism. I find it telling that when this was posted on their boards, nobody had anything to say. Why didn't they explain to this person that they shouldn't have been persuaded by our juvenile, offensive argumentation? Why was the typical response to anything having to do with us not represented in this thread? Go ahead and explain to this poster all the reasons why we are ineffective and pedantic stupid morons. I triple-dog dare you. link Quote: ThatTallDJ: Hello everyone, and thanks in advance for your warm welcomes. I suppose it is necessary to go into the obligatory story of my personal jour...
Richard Dawkins: Tribulation Force
2007-10-21 15:26:00 Your Sunday Skepticomic from Slime Culture TV(click image to enlarge)To view last week's comic click here.
Rowan Williams hits out at atheist Richard Dawkins
2007-10-15 03:07:00 The Archbishop of Canterbury responded to critics of religion by arguing that atheists had missed the point and failed to understand what Christians really believe in.
Another Dawkins Review - the Mind Boggles
2007-10-11 21:44:00 Google News Alerts brought to my attention this article by Kyle Lee in the Chicago Maroon, entitled Dawkins?s militant atheism delusional, in which he discusses some of his grievances with Dawkins and, in particular, his book The God Delusion. Unfortunately, Lee forgot to do one teeny, tiny thing that could have helped him out ...
By: A Load of Bright
Is this what Dawkins meant?.....
2007-10-05 00:26:00 The term meme (it's pronounced like dream or cream) was coined by Richard Dawkins, Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. Memes are habits, skills, songs, stories, or any other kind of information that is copied from person to person. As examples he suggested ?tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches?. Memes, like genes, are replicators. That is, they are information that is copied with variation and selection. Because only some of the variants survive, memes (and hence human cultures) evolve. Memes are copied by imitation, teaching and other methods, and they compete for space in our memories and for the chance to be copied again. Large groups of memes that are copied and passed on together are called co-adapted meme complexes, or memeplexes. The word ?meme? has recently been included in the Oxford English Dictionary where it is defined as follows ?meme (mi:m), n. Bi...
By: Zoe's Dad
Richard Dawkins: Religion Evil
2007-10-03 19:08:00 Why am I not surprised? Nobody is suggesting that all religious people are violent, intolerant, racist, bigoted, contemptuous of women and so on. It would be absurd to suggest such a thing: just as absurd as to generalize about all atheists. I am not even concerned with statistical generalizations about the majority of religious people (or ...
By: Pirate's Cove
Imagine a world without religion
2007-10-03 16:39:00 The Freedom From Religion Foundation is one organization that is perfectly clear in how it would change the US Constitution if given the chance. And they are taking their message on the road through a campaign to "place freethought billboards around the country, wherever an irreverent billboard is needed -- which is practically everywhere!" Like this one, standing just off the west Beltline in Madison, Wisconsin.If I did not know what they meant by that, I might tend to agree. Religion and dogma are not the same thing. And freethought and dogma are not necessarily opposites. A smaller billboard to go up in a place where it will be passed by nearly everyone leaving the airport in Madison will read, "Imagine No Religion."Imagine a world with no religion. Dawkins has. And he is bringing his campaign to the United States in order to realize it.I would free children from being indoctrinated with the religion of their parents or their community. The GuardianTo what lengths are we ...
?River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life? by Richard Dawkins. A book re
2007-10-02 16:28:00 Fortunately, it is not the least bit religious, despite the suggestive title. There are some truly wonderful examples that usually involve the reader directly, and I relished reading it. No pictures, but none are needed as the words themselves convey the ideas successfully. I found the sections on gastrulation, ancestry, bees, eyes, particularly fascinating. The ...
Richard Dawkins: Por qu estamos aqu?. Ver documental
2007-10-02 11:25:00 Richard Dawkins: Por qu estamos aqu?. Video. La pregunta de ‘por qu estamos aqu’ es una tontera o “la razn poltica para hablar de magisterios separados [entre la ciencia y la religin] no tiene sentido: es perder la guerra para intentar ganar la batalla”. Para Dawkins las creencias religiosas se inmiscuyen en el conocimiento cientfico, al ...
By: teimagino
Richard Dawkins : Duped by Creationist Front Group on Film
2007-09-29 12:59:00 A while ago Richard Dawkins and other prominent atheists agreed to appear in a documentary named “Crossroads - The Intersection of Science and Religion”. It was their understanding that “Crossroads” would focus on the debate between creationism and Darwinism.Recently Dawkins discovered that the name of the film had been changed to “Expelled - No Intelligence Allowed”. Quite a difference in emphasis from the original. More troubling was the change in the content itself. Far from being an even handed debate, “Expelled” goes to bat for creationists, arguing that scientists who support intelligent design theory are being denied academic posts at some universities.Needless to say, Dawkins isn’t thrilled. He had this to say ... "At no time was I given the slightest clue that these people were a creationist front.”Clearly some misrepresentation was going on.PZ Myers, a biology professor at the University of Minnesota, also agreed to appear in the original documentary ...
By: Aidan Maconachy
Video: Interesting Experiment - Richard Dawkins on the God Machine
2007-09-19 12:58:00 Michael Persinger is a neuropsychologist at Canada's Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. His theory is that the sensation described as having a religious experience is merely a side effect of our bicameral brain's feverish activities. He has attempted to create experiments to show that when the right hemisphere of the brain is stimulated in the cerebral region presumed to control notions of self, and then the left hemisphere is called upon to make sense of this nonexistent entity, the mind generates what is felt as a 'sensed presence.' Many of Persinger's studies detail the reactions that people have when their temporal lobes are stimulated with complex magnetic fields. Some of the subjects experience a 'sensed presence' in the form of the deity from the culture that they were raised in. They see the God (or spirits associated with their God - the Virgin Mary, Mohammed, etc) that they believe in. Others have had experiences that mimi...
Examine: Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Chapter 3
2007-09-13 15:35:00 As concerning my slow, but continuous reading of Richard Dawkins? The God Delusion:Chapter 3P. 78Like most nonbelievers (and some Christians), RD misunderstands the attributes of God (i.e. omniscience and omnipotence), whereby, they are indeed hard to understand when man cannot and does not have the ability of such. But, how much more difficult for the natural man, that has not the Spirit?Such a big word, for such a ?sparing? point: parsimonious. Interestingly, he never tells us WHY [but opinion], ?it is more parsimonious to conjure up, say, a ?big bang singularity?, or some other physical concept as yet unknown? over ?invoking God? to terminate the beginning of creation. For by science, itself, states: matter/energy cannot be created/destroyed. Science also states: it cannot prove/disprove God. So, to say a ?big bang singularity?, which is tested [assumingly] by science, seemingly defying science in creation [by its so-called ability to create matter/energy, if by chance, there was...
The Hollow Men: Hitchens, Dawkins, and Harris
2007-09-09 19:39:00 anthony @ 18:35 Erasmus Root | Taki’s Top Drawer | August 28, 2007 Instead of a terrifying and interesting storm of doubt, my ship of faith only encountered in these “new atheists’” books a few annoying water balloons. The sales of Dawkins, Hitchen and Harris might be red hot, but their content is just as pale and ...
By: Suzie-Q
Dawkins on "atheism takes as much faith as theism"
2007-09-07 19:09:00 Other people have already mentioned this review of Hitchens’ “god is not Great” by Richard Dawkins, so merely telling you about it is fairly useless. However, I just have to share this bit with anyone who didn’t read the full article: The onus is not on the atheist to demonstrate the non-existence of the invisible unicorn ...
By: Way of the Mind
Examine: Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Chapter 2
2007-09-07 15:14:00 As concerning my slow, but continuous reading of Richard Dawkins? The God Delusion:Chapter 2P. 31I find it notably interesting that RD can begin a chapter describing one whom he does not know and whom he claims does not exist.It appears that RD uses the Catholic Church and Thomas Jefferson as his authoritative resources, at least in the beginning of chapter 2. Just noticing there are many of today which disagree with the Catholic Church and there were those of yesterday that did not agree with Jefferson.It also yields a lot of opinions that are somewhat without good foundations. (You would have to read to see what I mean here.)P. 38-39I believe RD misspeaks when he claims, ?It is conventional to assume that the Founding Fathers of the American Republic were deists. No doubt many of them were, although it has been argued that the greatest of them might have been atheists.? For he clearly notes his opinion in saying, ?Certainly their writings on religion in their own time leave me in ...
The danger of upholding "the good, the true and the beautiful" in education
2007-09-04 04:57:00 In How it Should be Done, Rod Dreher (the Crunchy Con) shares his family's path to education, from homeschooling, to disappointing private schools to the Providence Christian School. It isn't just the academic rigor that attracted the Drehers, but its prohibition against...dare I call it socialization? A small but telling example: Providence doesn't allow students to discuss TV, movies or popular culture on campus. When I tell parents this, half respond as if I'd disclosed that my child studied at Heinrich Himmler Elementary, and the other half can't believe our good fortune. Providence doesn't require abstinence from these things, but if you're training your child to love the good, the true and the beautiful instead of trash culture, this school is a powerful ally. Dallas Morning NewsThe main point I got from the editorial, however, has less to do with education and more to do with how conservative Christians should be handling the cultural decline we so often lament.Socia... |
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