Posted on 01/04/2014 5:24:40 PM PST by dennisw
Professor Richard Dawkins dismissed his hard-earned reputation as a militant atheist - admitting that he is actually agnostic as he can't prove God doesn't exist.
The country's foremost champion of Darwinist evolution stunned audience members when he made the confession during a lively debate on the origins of the universe with the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Professor Dawkins is a dedicated admirer of Charles Darwin, regarding the Victorian pioneer of evolution as the man who explained ‘everything we know about life’.
But when Archbishop Dr Rowan Williams suggested that Professor Darwin is often described as the world's most famous atheist, the geneticist responded: 'Not by me'.
He said: 'On a scale of seven, where one means I know he exists, and seven I know he doesn't, I call myself a six.'
Professor Dawkins went on to say he believed was a '6.9', stating: 'That doesn't mean I'm absolutely confident, that I absolutely know, because I don't.'
The two men were debating whether Biblical writers 'got it wrong' by not saying that the universe is billions of years old.
The Archbishop said: 'The writers of the Bible, inspired as I believe they were, were not inspired to do 21st century physics, they were inspired to pass on to their readers what God wanted them to know.
'In the first book of the Bible is the basic information - the universe depends on God, humanity has a very distinctive role in that universe , and humanity has made rather a mess of it.'
This latest admission by Professor Dawkins comes after he was left lost for words name the full title of his scientific hero’s most famous work during a radio discussion last week when accused Christians of being ignorant of the Bible.
In his frustration, he resorted to a helpless: ‘Oh God.’
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I saw the results of a study a few years ago: 23% of atheists believe in God.
Moving from atheism to agnosticism is a big step forward
Everyone believes in God.
It’s just that a lot of people are very, very angry at Him.
In his frustration, he resorted to a helpless: ‘Oh God.
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Funny.
“Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom”
Correct interpretation__________ Don’t violate God’s laws. You will suffer thus learning from this and this is when you start getting smart.
“On a scale of 1-7...” LOLOL!!
Athiests can’t prove there is no God, they have to take it on faith.
“In his frustration, he resorted to a helpless: ‘Oh God.’”
Now that is an irony for the books.
Dawkins admits he doesn’t know God does not exist only to further his argument that God does not exist..
Only a fool is fooled by this gambit..
All his life it's been there is no God...now all of a sudden...gimme a break...looking for publicity.
Oh brilliant Richard....Read Kant’s “The Critique of Pure Reason” again.
It is impossible to disprove the existence of God. The only way you could do it is if you were omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, so that you could be absolutely sure that there isn’t a greater being out there able to hide their presence from you.
Problem is, if you had those powers, you yourself would be God, and it would be a self-contradiction at that point to try and disprove your own existence.
Athiests can’t prove there is no God, they have to take it on faith.>>>>>>>>>>>>
correct!!!
It’s whether the person is saying “There is no God”*, I simply can not logically fathom it”, or is shaking his fist towards heaven shouting “NO, GOD!”.
*Psalms 14:1 The fool says in his heart “There is no God”.
“Moving from atheism to agnosticism is a big step forward”
Suzanne - Leonard Cohen (Second stanza)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUXC_dhQHzY
“And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said “All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them”
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
And you want to travel with him
And you want to travel blind
And you think maybe you’ll trust him”
Pray for Dawkins.
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