Richard Dawkins : Creationists, now they’re coming for your children

Times Online ^ | 8/24/2009 | Richard Dawkins

[LiteKeeper]

Only one response to this article; you better believe we are after your children. Somebody has to tell them the truth, and it won’t be Richard Dawkins.

[GOP Poet]

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[ronnietherocket2]

I didn’t understand a single word of that.

[Heartlander]

In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
– Richard Dawkins River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

I have argued that the discontinuous gap between humans and 'apes' that we erect in our minds is regrettable. I have also argued that, in any case, the present position of the hallowed gap is arbitrary, the result of evolutionary accident. If the contingencies of survival and extinction had been different, the gap would be in a different place. Ethical principles that are based upon accidental caprice should not be respected as if cast in stone.
- Dawkins

Dawkins signed a petition in the UK to “ make it illegal to indoctrinate or define children by religion before the age of 16”. .

[LastNorwegian]

Galileo too was working for the church. His “persecution” has been greatly exaggerated and had more to do with his mocking the pope than science/religion.

http://www.catholic.com/library/Galileo_Controversy.asp

[dsc]

“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.”

If you turn your back on God and spurn His blessings, then yes, the universe does look a lot like that.

[randomhero97]

LMAO. Greatest “Awnold” movie ever.

[Heartlander]

Richard Dawkins - The Blasphemy Challenge. Dawkins is actually the one who is going after the children…

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

For every Galileo, there is an Isaac Newton, a Georges Lamaitre, and a Michael Faraday. Christianity has produced giants in the hard sciences.

For every Galileo...?

Galileo Galilei was put on trial by the Church for supporting Copernican astronomy. This was not all that long ago. It's scary when you give that much power to theocrats.

[jokar]

He be a believer for sure when he dies.

[dsc]

I’m pretty sure you have been exposed to more accurate history than that, right here on FR.

[GodGunsGuts]

Writing from under Richard Darwkins bed...Ping!

[count-your-change]

Dawkins has company under the bed, that eminent scholar and scientist, Ellen Goodman opines that you might be a “HOLCAUST DENIER” if you don't accept the global warming scare. Says she:

“I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.” (ELLEN GOODMAN
No change in political climate
By Ellen Goodman | February 9, 2007 The Boston Globe)

The Holocaust Deniers, HD’ers to the uninitiated, are everywhere, disguised as creationists and global coolingists and people who wear brown shoes with blue suits.

Poor Richard. It's scary out there in the colonies.

[MrB]

You’ll find that, almost exclusively, biblical Christianity is the only religion that is attacked...

It’s the truth, and that’s why the father of lies focuses his attention on it.

[GodGunsGuts]

Don’t forget about the HIV denialists...LOL! I know you take the other side of the debate over what causes AIDS, but wouldn’t it be funny if all three groups labeled as “denialists” by the evo-atheists turned out to be correct?!?!?

[Jaime2099]

"Evolution is an inescapable fact"

How appropriate, Mr. Dawkins is writing in the entertainment section. I guess that's where they let the clowns write whatever they want.

"The more energetically and thoroughly you try to disprove a theory, if it survives the assault, the more closely it approaches what common sense happily calls a fact"

Who is trying to disprove Evolution energetically? A few creationist scientists are trying. Almost every university researcher bends over backwards to make sure they never even come close to disproving it. Who would want the religious Dawrinists running after them with axes trying to remove them from their jobs and take their research money. This article is laughable, simply laughable.

[AndrewC]

The only sense to make of his article is that he is shilling a new book.

[Lancey Howard]

“And the survey SAYS....!”

“Goofball.”

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

the strategic niceties of the Punic Wars

There was nothing nice about the Punic Wars. Ugly, nasty affairs.

that being said, if Dawkins thinks this is a serious or legitimate argument against creationism, then he's even more of a mouth-breathing, brain-dead cretin than I'd thought.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Galileo Galilei was put on trial by the Church for supporting Copernican astronomy. This was not all that long ago. It's scary when you give that much power to theocrats.

While it's true that Galileo was tried for his support of Copernicanism, "theocrats" had nothing to do with it. In fact, Galileo's prosecution was engineered by his fellow scientists who supported the Ptolemaic cosmology (i.e. geocentrism). The pope initially sided with Galileo, but was eventually convinced, through several underhanded means, that Galileo's advocacy represented a POLITICAL (not theological) threat to the Church.