Replies

I've gotten many useful ideas from R Dawkin's books. I read the "Blind Watchmaker" years ago. I halfway agree with him. But this TV series is rabidly anti-religion and a low point for Richard Dawkins. This kind of foolishness is why Europe will wither and die under the faster breeding Muslims. Muslims have a great cultic faith, build enormous mosques, while church attendance plummets in Europe. It's a survival of the fittest match that Richard Dawkins is oblivious to. The faith-full will vanquish the faith-less. The faithful Muslims are commanded to Jihad-conquest-conversion until the world is Muslim. They are commanded to emulate Muhammad's bloody life. While the faithless of Europe are Dawkin's ideal rational people who by default are conceding their continent to the Muslim lumpen due to low birthrates.

You don't have time for children when you are reveling in your sexual freedom (both sexes) and your own personal consumerist "now". Having children, many children, means you are future oriented, not "now" oriented. When your world is only on the material level, is only what is in front of you, you become "now" oriented. More sensory and pleasure oriented

"You don't have time for children when you are reveling in your sexual freedom (both sexes) and your own personal consumerist "now". Having children, many children, means you are future oriented, not "now" oriented. When your world is only on the material level, is only what is in front of you, you become "now" oriented. More sensory and pleasure oriented"

Wow, how beautiful, the truth. Thank you for these words.

I've gotten many useful ideas from R Dawkin's books. I read the "Blind Watchmaker" years ago. I halfway agree with him. But this TV series is rabidly anti-religion and a low point for Richard Dawkins.

I haven't paid enough attention to Dawkins to know if I "halfway agree with him" or not. As a non-believer, albeit one who is deeply respectful of our Judeo-Christian heritage, it is likely that I ~would~ agree with the science part. But I certainly share your contempt for Dawkins ugly, arrogant hostility toward people of faith.

I believe in the unfettered use of the intellect, but I have the paleo's genetic aversion to radical "reforms" based on any recent theory, especially theories brought forth by those who live their lives in rarefied abstraction little connected to real life, families, and nature's earth (which they invariable claim to love).

Judeo-Christianity, IMHO, is the wellspring and the lifeblood of mankind's gentler instincts, notwithstanding the facts that human beings, cloaked in these spiritualities, have at times behave abominably.

(I admire your excellent post, dennisw.)

Having children, many children, means you are future oriented, not "now" oriented.

This may be obvious to the casual observer but it whizzese right past the secular-humanist-agnostic-atheists like Carl Sagan.

Common ssense isn't all that common.