Post #270,221
10/13/06 10:33:20 AM
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Re: You misunderstand, I think
I took your post seriously and went back to the BBC site
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In The God Delusion, the scientist Richard Dawkins sets out to attack God "in all his forms".
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Of course, irritated theologians will protest that we don't take the book of Genesis literally any more. But that is my whole point! We pick and choose which bits of scripture to believe, which bits to write off as symbols or allegories.
The present day athiest argument leaves no room for liberals or moderates (see the writings of Sam Harris for another example)
Either you support 'science' or you're sunk in 'ignorance'
This strikes me as an arrogant attitude and probably 100% science-free
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Post #270,223
10/13/06 10:37:27 AM
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Salon interview
Dawkins' latest book turns to his more recent passions. In "The God Delusion," Dawkins fulminates against religious moderates as well as fundamentalists. He argues that the existence of God is itself a scientific conjecture, one that doesn't hold up to the evidence. And he dismisses the entire discipline of theology: "I have yet to see any good reason to suppose that theology (as opposed to biblical history, literature, etc.) is a subject at all." [link|http://salon.com/books/int/2006/10/13/dawkins/|Link] -----------------------------------------
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Post #270,231
10/13/06 1:00:32 PM
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Fundamentalists of all stripes brook no argument
take no prisoners, and if yer aint fer 'em yer agin' 'em.
The anti-god fundies, for example, would prefer to brand anyone who claims a spiritual experience as mentally defective, or corrupt - while the pro-god fundies brand anyone that argues against THEM as morally defective, or corrupt.
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Post #270,291
10/14/06 2:12:44 AM
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Re: Fundamentalists of all stripes brook no argument
Indeed, the militant a-Theist pretends to Gnosticism; becomes equally, the bastard son of Certainty.
As to the 'spiritual' -- undemonstrable as any such an experience would be, beyond the experiencer's jelloware: I note that most non-fulminating assessments of corporate theology (ie. of all organized groups with fav manuals, hierarchy, garb and rituals) - tend to point out that there are many churchly habits that militate against ever experiencing the spiritual - in favor of the adsorption of the Authoritative.
Allegiance to the org. substitutes for experience of the [__].
Only homo-sap could contrive a Living Oxymoron!
No wonder.. it is so rare when anything potentially useful ever gets said, in the usual clashes within the World of Opposites '..as ignorant armies clash by night.'
(At least the ~'agnostic' never pretends to Certainty: a concept which may be prominent on the epitaph of the radioactive ruins, if a dying stonemason has the energy to chisel anything much, after RIP.)
Fortunately, too: it's all in our minds and has nothing much to do with Reality, as in {whew!} :-)
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Post #270,262
10/13/06 3:50:36 PM
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Re: You misunderstand, I think
What is liberal or moderate about believing in the existence of an omnipotent being which transcends all known laws of physics?
Arrogant, my arse. It's the only sane viewpoint to take.
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Post #270,271
10/13/06 8:08:53 PM
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is there life on other planets?
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Post #270,298
10/14/06 8:22:20 AM
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Of course.
As evidence, see Marlowe.
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Post #270,332
10/14/06 9:31:24 PM
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Re: You misunderstand, I think
Well doesn't physics transcend the laws of physics or was Godel wrong
A
PS the Dawkins interview at Salon exposes him thouroughly through his own words
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Post #270,337
10/14/06 9:47:32 PM
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from string theory to the flying spaghetti monster
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