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Great, thought-provoking interview summing up religion as only Richard Dawkins can.
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Going strictly by this FAQ, sifts like this Dawkins video @ exactly 10 minutes qualify for both long and not long at the same time.
My suggestion (being a Technical Writer for 12 years):
Either change the first part to read, "...flagged as having 10 or more minutes in length..."
OR
Change the second part to read, "...this is a hard limit, and videos of exactly 10:00 minutes in length do not qualify..."
I don't really care which one but...ambiguity be damned!
ancestor's tale is an awesome book, by the way.
It is, infact, Dawkins' best. And thats a strong field. It is probably one of the most fascinating books I have read and is ever going to read. To say that it is a must-read is an understatement. For those who do not enjoy the act of reading itself, there is an excellent Audiobook read by Richard and his wife, Lalla Ward
You could say the same thing about the government-paid shills who claim secondhand smoke is "deadly" and greenvangelicals who think water vapor in the atmosphere is heating up Mother Earth at unnatural alarming rates.
Religion will still be with us hundreds of years after Dawkins is dust. And the nations with the most numbers of faithful will in turn be the strongest and therefore evolutionary winners.
Religion will still be with us hundreds of years after Dawkins is dust. And the nations with the most numbers of faithful will in turn be the strongest and therefore evolutionary winners.
Natural selection cares only about reproduction. Therefore, religion will win because they have idiots who breed a lot. But they will offset this evolutionary victory by blowing each other up. So in the end, nobody wins.
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Religion will still be with us hundreds of years after Dawkins is dust. And the nations with the most numbers of faithful will in turn be the strongest and therefore evolutionary winners.
Natural selection cares only about reproduction. Therefore, religion will win because they have idiots who breed a lot. But they will offset this evolutionary victory by blowing each other up. So in the end, nobody wins.
In a couple decades, it's unavoidable that the modern trend in gene frequency toward the religious and uneducated will be changed by reprogenetics.
My prediction is that mainstream parents will see a large increase in the happiness and abilities of their children, but many Creationists either will use it to increase religious traits (e.g. decrease tendency to question) or will mimic the Amish and shun advances in technology that challenge their ideology.
Does a troll-angle have three sides? My right to comment is as valid as yours.
Are you saying that having faith in general is sacrosanct? I always took you for a conservative Christian, not a panentheist.
I am not a Christian; I believe Christianity is a legitimate pathway to God-Consciousness, as are many others.
I find it hypocritical to accuse only religion of influencing science while ignoring the politics that gave us junk science resulting in imaginary polar bear genocide, man-made global warming, and tobacco smoke that would have already killed most of the human race by now were it as lethal as claimed. What fueled the ban of DDT? Politically motivated junk science. Well, that self-righteous attitude and Rachel Carson's lies are now responsible for needless deaths in the millions from the resurgence of malaria. How often blind faith and modern junk science share the same toothbrush.
Atheism will never catch fire because humans are not logical, or robots.
Humans are creatures of imagination and emotion, and listening to Dawkins talk about DNA, while interesting, will never replace religious storytelling. I understand the beef with fundamentalists, but they are small in number in most religions.
Fraudbama is a perfect example of how the power of myth trumps logic. He's gotten this far appealing only to imagination (a bright future) and emotion (hope) with only vague hints and promises of what he'll do.
As a former atheist, I'm not asking anyone to convert. I'm (occasionally) requesting atheists to consider the utilitarian usefulness of faith, and lose the bigotry long enough to grudgingly admit religion's done more good than harm.
Humans are creatures of imagination and emotion, and listening to Dawkins talk about DNA, while interesting, will never replace religious storytelling.
Maybe not Dawkins / DNA specifically, but I find science far more interesting than any religious story. I've always been awestruck when considering the scale and complexity of the universe, the unimaginably slow movements of galaxies colliding, the strangeness of things close to absolute zero, etc etc etc. Religion is either largely or entirely composed of made up stories about people doing stuff.
"Hey, so god was going to flood the planet to kill everyone (because he loves us), but he didn't want all the animals to die so he had some guy build a giant boat to temporarily store 2 of each of them."
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The Hubble deep field.
No contest.
On the other hand, if there is a creator who will someday judge us and eternally reward or punish us, may it have mercy on my foolish blasphemous self. Also, some irrefutable evidence for your existence would be nice pleasedon'tsmiteme.
1.Name me a good thing done, or a moral statement made, in the name of religion, that could ONLY be done, justified and argued for, using religion.
2.Name me a wicked thing done, or wicked statement made, in the name of religion, that could ONLY be done, justified and argued for, using religion.
It's so strange that you're arguing for the "usefulness" of religion. And you say Christianity is one of many paths to god. You're not arguing at all about the truthfulness of it at all.
Christianity is either true, or false, right? I mean, either god and angels are fighting satan and demons over your soul, or they aren't. Either Jesus was the son of god, or he wasn't. If another religion contradicts that, then one of them is WRONG. Right?