Posted on 09/18/2008 9:41:57 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Lord Robert Winston has renewed his attack on atheist writers such as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens, whose arguments he said were "dangerous", "irresponsible" and "very divisive".
The science populariser and fertility expert said...
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ping!
Great post!
Once again, we’re in agreement.
More to the point that are ignorant and wrong. It's frustrating when people write books that were pre-refuted by literature already existing that they are too arrogant to read and digest, as is the case with these village idiots. It's no wonder the better class of atheists are beside themselves with frustration at the philosophical naivity of the Dawkins/Dennett/Hitchens/Harris intellectual dwarfs.
Thank you. It’s nice to see mainstream scientists start to push back.
Not to mention recently former atheists like Anthony Flew:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2048535/posts
Puh-leeze. This guy is kind of like the people who say that it’s “divisive” and “mean” to (for example) connect Obama to Reverrund Wright.
So you think it’s ok for materialists like Dawkins et al to pretend their religious assumptions are scientific?
Thanks for the ping!
Mr. Hitchen's rebuttal will be forthcoming, once the hangover wears off.
When I disbelieve that Mohammed flew to Jerusalem on a winged horse, am I making a religious assumption?
Speaking of rebuttals, did you notice that Richard Dawkins FINALLY agreed to debate Dinesh D’Souza? And on al-Jazeera no less! Apparently, al-Jazeera asked Dawkins to come and debate the existence of God, but he didn’t know he would be facing D’Souza, the man he had been dodging all this time. To back out would make him look like the coward that he really is, so once he learned who he would be facing, he called back in a panic and demanded some format changes. For more, see the following...LOL! :
http://townhall.com/columnists/DineshDSouza/2008/07/28/countering_richard_dawkins_on_al-jazeera
==When I disbelieve that Mohammed flew to Jerusalem on a winged horse, am I making a religious assumption?
That all depends on the reason why you disbelieve it.
LOL!
I loved D’Souza’s book. Simple and to the point.
Because there’s no evidence to believe it. If someone could present evidence, then I’d be glad to change my mind.
When I disbelieve that life developed naturalistically via proposed mechanisms that are flatly contradictory to actual, empirical scientific knowledge, am I making a religious assumption?
Such as......
Are you saying that disbelief in the story about Mohammad requires subscribing to religious dogma?
Such as the fact that you can't polymerise amino acids in an ocean, for one, which is the basic theory behind naturalistic abiogenesis. Also, the fact that any amino acids produced in any "Miller-Urey" type early-earth lightning bolt action would be a racemic mix totally unsuitable to incorporation into life proteins. Or the fact that the only "evidence" to date for any kind of possible auto-organisation of potential life molecules involves carefully-chosen experimental conditions which have no relevance to anything appearing on earth. I can name others, this is just off the top of my head in a thirty second thought-flash. Naturalistic abiogenesis is utter flaming nonsense.
Are you saying that disbelief in the story about Mohammad requires subscribing to religious dogma?
I'm not saying anything about the Mohammed story. I don't care about the Mohammed story. It's called "getting you back on topic".
Evolutionary theory starts “in the middle”; the fact that life exists is assumed as a starting point, much as the science of physics rests on the assumption that matter exists, without speculation about where it came from.
Re: being off topic- my original post was about the dubious assumption that skepticism about religious dogma is itself religious dogma. You brought abiogenisis into it.
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