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To: HayekRocks
It's there, but you don't have the sensitivity to the subject that I do.

Dawkins, who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, is known for his books The Blind Watchmaker, The Selfish Gene, River out of Eden and Climbing Mount Improbable. In all of his work he successfully explains how complex forms of life evolved from simple forms of life. In a number of lectures and debates, notably the Voltaire Lecture "Viruses of the Mind", he demands that scientists and other rational people stop waffling and accept the lack of evidence for religious claims and draw the obvious conclusions: there is no god, and religion is a pack of lies.

1,106 posted on 07/28/2006 7:13:31 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Supporting the troops means praying for them to WIN!)
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To: xzins
So Dawkins does not believe in God, and thinks that scientists should not accept religious claims. We also have his opinion that evolution means it is not necessary to believe in God. What we do not have is a claim that the Theory of Evolution demonstrates there is no God.

If you will accept a little unsolicited advice, you should be more careful in what you assert. 'Sensitivity' is a very odd way of putting it.

1,113 posted on 07/28/2006 7:22:40 PM PDT by HayekRocks
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