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To: billorites

Dawkins isn't religion bashing. He's creationist bashing. There is a big difference.


7 posted on 05/25/2005 4:32:39 AM PDT by Junior (“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
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To: Junior
Dawkins isn't religion bashing. He's creationist bashing. There is a big difference.

Dawkins is an atheist who despises all religion.

He particularly hates creationists and reserves most of his venom for them, but it's not just creationists he hates.

11 posted on 05/25/2005 4:38:54 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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To: Junior; billorites
Dawkins isn't religion bashing. He's creationist bashing. There is a big difference

I really doubt he is troubled by your distinction.

DARWIN'S DANGEROUS DISCIPLE

Skeptic: In River Out of Eden, you also say that, "Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not" (p. 33). But doesn't one first have to make the choice or decision to use pragmatism as the standard by which we judge? That is, we must first agree to base our decisions on what works, rather than on revelation or intuition. Isn't the most we can ask of the religious crowd, "Either lay hands on flat tires and pray for the sick, rather than taking them to a mechanic or a doctor, or if you are not willing to be consistent, just shut up and go away?" Doesn't the religious view amount to, "When we're afraid, we seek God. When God doesn't answer our prayers, blame it on the Devil?"
Dawkins: Yes, it's a kind of pathetic, childish response to some failure.

61 posted on 05/25/2005 6:50:37 AM PDT by AndrewC (Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so)
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To: Junior; snarks_when_bored
"Dawkins isn't religion bashing. He's creationist bashing. There is a big difference."

Yes, you are correct.

Poor chose of words on my part.

74 posted on 05/25/2005 7:05:28 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Junior

"Dawkins isn't religion bashing. He's creationist bashing. There is a big difference."


Not to thin-skinned, easily offended Christians.


259 posted on 05/25/2005 10:51:42 AM PDT by Blzbba (Let them hate us as long as they fear us - Caligula)
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Ignorance is God’s gift to Kansas.

And Richard Dawkins and his particular brand of marxism and bigotry is a gift to creationists worldwide.

The gift that keeps on giving.

Three cheers for Dawkins:

Hip, hip hooray.
Hip, hip hooray.
Hip, hip hooray!

263 posted on 05/25/2005 10:56:25 AM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: Junior

Remember though, Dawkins isn't someone to take seriously on evolution.


376 posted on 05/25/2005 2:34:46 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Junior

If you don't believe in G-d's word as in the book of Genesis which states G-d created the heavens and the earth, then it would suffice to say this bloke is bashing anyone who believes in the word of G-d? Once again we have intolerance from the far left. One thing they seem to forget about science, men are the ones who come up with the theories and men are the ones who prove these theories so who is to say they are always correct in their findings?


583 posted on 05/25/2005 8:34:36 PM PDT by Paige ("Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." --George Washington)
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