The McGraths, although I suspect more Alister McGrath, created ‘The Dawkins Delusion’ an odd book which I read hoping to find some sort of logical argument against Dawkins. Right at the start of the book McGrath expressed a God Delusion moment of realisation,
Read the full story »The first thing I ever talked about, all about my views on religion and the role that it plays in our society or my disagreements with it.
Albeit a rather thin perspective but hopefully does deal with some of the issues related around science and how its often been misused.
Superstition the religion of fools or at least as bad as religion in many respects! Why people believe in weird things.
Random things that I have found which don’t really seem to fit anywhere else, not really news since they are not “new” but I hope interesting.
New Rules, following my grumpy life, these are my little moans about the world. Something I stole from Bill Maher!
Anyone who has ever heard Dinesh D’Souza or any other religious debate about how the universe is so finely tuned there must be a God is arrogant. Firstly since they are coming from a theological position they have no authority when it comes to debating physics . They are not scientists from major physic backgrounds, they don’t have a great understanding of theory, they are misinterpreting the work of others. Secondly, they make the same mistake as all the other religious people in the past – they assume that all is known. Like germ theory replacing God theory, perhaps as Dawkins points out, what we will come to know will change the tuned universe theory. God should not be a logical or reasoned answer to the finely tuned universe that we happen to live in. So let’s see what the only person who has received the highest awards from all three major American physics societies has to say about it:
“Hell is an evil concept, those that speak of Hell should be the only ones that suffer from it” – RU
“Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom …
New Rule: If you are going to criticize Richard Dawkins then don’t be a dick about it… I recently read an article about the evil & arrogant Dawkins, several issues where brought up in my …
What I really liked about this video by Shermer is the idea of ‘negative evidence’ which in fact this should have been included in my earlier post: The common defences used by superstitions. It …
I have never taken the view that I should attack an individual’s personal beliefs, neither have I really ever condemned religious followers as being those stupid people that have never thought for themselves, doing this …
These three phenomena cover a wide array of activities and beliefs but share the same broad sense that they break away from what could be considered to be ‘natural’ and move towards trying to produce …
Please don’t mistake this as anything other than an examination of the gay gene and by far this is not the rejection of the ontological worth any individual places on their inner world that includes …
There are two new videos posted at Richard Dawkins.Net which are noteworthy, the
first is that of Dawkins himself and the second by Andy Thomson, both of which
talk about religion at the American Atheist convention 2009. …
The MMR vaccine, an all-round method for protecting children against measles, mumps and rubella, was first used right at the end of the 1960’s it was clear to see it was an ever effective method …
It would be nice to think that each of us is different; each with differing views, differing opinions and perhaps the uniqueness of us is perfectly that. This is the explicit lie; if we all …
When you first enter the discussion of the concepts of induction and deduction there is a confusing analogy that has to do with swans, I will try my best to steer away from this since …
I was listening to a recently filmed debate and the idea came across that the earth was designed; this was presented by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. These are the things he mentions, which I have heard …
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