Posted on 08/11/2009 1:05:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The so-called New Atheists are attacking the mantra of science and faith being compatible. Others in the science community question the value of confrontation.
This fall, evolutionary biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins -- most recently famous for his public exhortation to atheism, "The God Delusion" -- returns to writing about science. Dawkins' new book, "The Greatest Show on Earth," will inform and regale us with the stunning "evidence for evolution," as the subtitle says. It will surely be an impressive display, as Dawkins excels at making the case for evolution. But it's also fair to ask: Who in the United States will read Dawkins' new book (or ones like it) and have any sort of epiphany, or change his or her mind?
Surely not those who need it most: America's anti-evolutionists. These religious adherents often view science itself as an assault on their faith and doggedly refuse to accept evolution because they fear it so utterly denies God that it will lead them, and their children, straight into a world of moral depravity and meaninglessness. An in-your-face atheist touting evolution, like Dawkins, is probably the last messenger they'll heed.
Dawkins will, however, be championed by many scientists, especially the most secular -- those who were galvanized by "The God Delusion" and inspired by it to take a newly confrontational approach toward America's religious majority. They will help ensure Dawkins another literary success. It's certainly valuable to have the case for evolution articulated prominently and often, but what this unending polarization around evolution and religion does for the standing of science in the U.S. is a very different matter.
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Antitheist atheists aren't "secular". Their religion is atheism. It forms their worldview and emboldens them to lash out at the other "false" religions of the world.
Hahaha. Apart from co-authoring a couple papers in the 1970's on parasite wasps, since when has Dr. Dawkins ever written about testable, observable natural processes (i.e., science)? Look carefully at his list of publications and it is easy to see he has made a career, not as a scientist, but as a demagogue and rather ignorant ideological cheerleader.
Keep it up, Dr. Dawkins. Every time you put your pen to paper I see more Ph.D's reading what you write and later citing it as the reason they first began questioning naturalism and Darwinism.
Hahaha. Apart from co-authoring a couple papers in the 1970's on parasite wasps, since when has Dr. Dawkins ever written about testable, observable natural processes (i.e., science)? Look carefully at his list of publications and it is easy to see he has made a career, not as a scientist, but as a demagogue and rather ignorant ideological cheerleader.
Keep it up, Dr. Dawkins. Every time you put your pen to paper I see more Ph.D's reading what you write and later citing it as the reason they first began questioning naturalism and Darwinism.
It's not coindicental that the first sin mentioned in the Bible was man's attempt to displace God w/ himself. That path leads only to death.
It was ever such.
Through-out the rest of the world, it is an entirely different story.
Must Religion Declare a Holy War on Science?
“They will help ensure Dawkins another literary success,” it’s got to be all about the money.
Of course not. The truth, like a cork, will allways rise to the top.
Just another of those confrontational cottage industries. Those who earn money writing and lecturing about it care about it.
So right; man, we need to get on some bandwagon to make some money; I just haven’t come up with one yet.
Science is the study of God’s laws.
One thing you need to notice -
in effect, it’s ONLY Christianity that is the subject of the rabid hatred you’re seeing. That’s because it is the TRUTH, and everything else is the product of LIES.
Check out some of the Lee Stroebel “Case for” books/videos/audios. He was an atheist journalist that set out to prove Christianity false, and ended up convincing himself of the truth of Christianity with what he found.
Maybe science should throw out all the science that came from religion, like all the scientific knowledge preserved by the Catholic Church, and the science of genetics, since it was discovered by a Catholic priest.
Well, they’d have to throw out Newtonian physics and Einstein and the scientific method as well. Not that the latter would be a loss. Certainly Dawkins isn’t using it.
My maternal grandfather was that way. He was also my only grandparent who, as the end of his life neared, was obviously very afraid to die.
Oh my...But surely they know God created science just like everything else!
No...they’re blind...
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