I looked over the wiki (I don't want to read the whole thing). My previous assessment was correct: his atheism absolutely takes the form of a religious faith. He certainly does the cause of increasing scientific literacy no favors, when he states as fact his pure opinion that science can somehow disprove the existence of God.
I don’t blame you.
”his atheism absolutely takes the form of a religious faith.”
I would say so, yes.
”He certainly does the cause of increasing scientific literacy no favors, when he states as fact his pure opinion that science can somehow disprove the existence of God.”
Yet, Dawkins’ opinion, as you correctly characterize it, is loudly trumpeted as indisputable fact. That Dawkins does no favors for the cause of scientific literacy has been my contention from the start, but you should hear some of the heinous misdeeds of which I am accused, when I raise the issue of the misrepresentations of Dawkins & co (LOL).
“Well the word delusion means a falsehood which is widely believed, and I think that is true of religion. It is remarkably widely believed, it’s as though almost all of the population or a substantial proportion of the population believed that they had been abducted by aliens in flying saucers. You’d call that a delusion. I think God is a similar delusion.”
. . . from the same Debate/Interview
The very title of Dawkins’ latest book (The God Delusion) is as clear a demonstration as one would want that Dawkins deems religious people (most particularly Christians) to be delusional, or worse (misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, and capriciously malevolent), and he charges the same in his book. The book’s title likewise makes it manifest that the existence of a god is what he considers Christians to be delusional about.
Just a small preview of what has been going on, apparently unbeknownst to you.
Most of the supposed battle between Science and Christians would not even be necessary if Christians did not find themselves trapped in a culture increasingly composed of an obscene filth that threatens them and their children at every turn.
It’s a chimera to believe it possible to achieve a values-free education where no one’s culture preferences predominate. If we chose to surrender education to government, then we will get the education that government believes is in its own best interest, and it would seem that this is what we have done. Right now government appears to believe its interest to be an education controlled by unions like the SEIU, ACORN, GLBT, the ACLU, environmental crazies, Liberation Theologists, Marxist/Socialist thugs, NAMBLA, and illegal immigrants (my apologies to any radical leftwing nutjob I’ve omitted). Are these the influences you prefer?
I think likely not.