Richard Dawkins: "Theistic evolutionists are deluded"

Creation Ministries International ^ | Posted 9-30-14, excerpted earlier. | CMI staff running Dawkins video clip

[fishtank]

"Many people think that theistic evolution blends faith with scientific credibility, but these comments from Dawkins show that this compromise is even more ridiculed than biblical creationism, which is at least consistent. A powerful argument from a hostile witness."

[fishtank]

You have to click on the video to hear Dawkins slam the theistic evolutionists.

[fishtank]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BAbpfn9QgGA

[fishtank]

[Pikachu_Dad]

No thanks. He has. Itching of interest to say.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Nothing... Grrr

[Viennacon]

I am of the mind that Dawkins shouldn’t be given any air time anywhere after his comments on pedophilia. Starve this attention whore of oxygen.

[Rinnwald]

Man, I wish I knew everything like Richard Dawkins.

[ifinnegan]

“A powerful argument from a hostile witness.”

Not really.

[Mechanicos]

Why do any sane people pay attention to that fool?

[jonno]

He’s really smart dontcha know...

[navyblue]

Who make this guy the smartest man in the world?

[The_Reader_David]

Dawkins suffers from the delusion that theism asserts the existence of a mere entity with a list of implausible property. Theism, at least in its classical Christian expression (cf. the writings of the Cappadocian Fathers and On the Divine Names attributed to St. Dionysius the Areopagite), rather, asserts that the very ground-of-all-being, that which is prior to the distinction between being and non-being, is, by some improper analogy, more like a human person or great mind than like anything else in our ordinary experience, and thus, ought to be related to personally. There is no contradiction inherent in seeing evolutionary processes as the unfolding of the will of the legislator of the laws of dynamics in the universe.

Now, mind you, we Christians think what is naturally an improper analogy has been strengthened by the choice of the ground-of-all-being to make His (we like that pronoun not just because of the Scriptures, but because creation by a feminine deity would inevitably be analogized to birthgiving, effacing the radical unlikeness of the created and the Uncreated)...to make His decisive self-revelation not in a text, but in a complete human person, one Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, in which He, in the person of the Son, assumed our nature -- that's another way in which the Uncreated transcends the categories ordinarily applicable to entities (the One God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, transcending the merely created categories of unity and multiplicity).

Dawkins, evidencing no conception whatsoever of transcendence, in matters of theology descends to the level of error a physicist once characterized as "not even wrong."

[Zionist Conspirator]

Wake the town and tell the people! I actually agree with Richard Dawkins about something!

Atheist evolutionists at least have the virtue of consistency. "Theistic evolutionists" do not. "Theistic evolutionists" believe in any number of scientifically impossible things while singling out the first eleven chapters of Genesis alone for rejection based on scientific critique. This is not even rational. It's nothing other than a smug, sniffing tactic to avoid identification with "those losers in the trailer parks," and I think deep down inside the know it.

Git 'em, Richard! Then there'll be nothing left but two clearly defined internally consistent alternatives!

[afsnco]

Agreed. And it’s not even just the first 11 chapters of Genesis:

Rev 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

Rev 10:6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:

[Gen-X-Dad]

Dawkins is a hack. The dude is so enamored by his reflection in a mirror that he can’t grasp the basic philosophical problem that no one can prove or disprove the existence of God. Just another militant atheist that doesn’t understand why no one “wins” this debate and can’t stand the fact that he is unable to steamroll his worldview through arrogance and belligerence.