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
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“Since we are creatures of natural selection, we cannot totally trust our senses. Evolution only passes on traits that help a species survive, and not concerned with preserving traits that tell a species what is actually true about life.”-------
- Richard Dawkins
Note the excerpt from the following interview from October 2006:
Dawkins:….What I do know is that what it feels like to me, and I think to all of us, we don’t feel determined. We feel like blaming people for what they do or giving people the credit for what they do. We feel like admiring people for what they do. None of us ever actually as a matter of fact says, “Oh well he couldn’t help doing it, he was determined by his molecules.” Maybe we should… I sometimes… Um… You probably remember many of you would have seen Fawlty Towers. The episode where Basil where his car won’t start and he gives it fair warning, counts up to three, and then gets out of the car and picks up a tree branch and thrashes it within an edge of his life. Maybe that’s what we all ought to… Maybe the way we laugh at Basil Fawlty, we ought to laugh in the same way at people who blame humans. I mean when we punish people for doing the most horrible murders, maybe the attitude we should take is “Oh they were just determined by their molecules.” It’s stupid to punish them. What we should do is say “This unit has a faulty motherboard which needs to be replaced.” I can’t bring myself to do that. I actually do respond in an emotional way and I blame people, I give people credit, or I might be more charitable and say this individual who has committed murders or child abuse of whatever it is was really abused in his own childhood. ….Manzari: But do you personally see that as an inconsistency in your views?
Dawkins: I sort of do. Yes. But it is an inconsistency that we sort of have to live with otherwise life would be intolerable. But it has nothing to do with my views on religion it is an entirely separate issue.
I generally don’t have a problem with atheists who look for natural explanations to the mechanics of the universe.
But Dawkins is an rather mean a-hole who goes from “everything can be explained” to “there is no God” with pretty much nothing between. Read “Mere Christianity” for a clear and logical explanation of how we go from a natural world to the existence of God.
Bottom line: Dawkins and his followers are dicks.
Atheism never fails to bring apparently smart people to a point where they repeatedly express short-sighted, incoherent or self-contradictory ideas.
These folks belong to the “Flat Consciousness Society”
“Evolution only passes on traits that help a species survive, and not concerned with preserving traits that tell a species what is actually true about life.”
Dawkins doesn’t understand the words survival or true.
“Atheists don’t believe in God. But the Devil does’’. Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.
Dawkins stopped learning and switched to self worship.