[dandelion]

Here's the heresy that none dare speak: Dawkins is selling his own religion. But he is not merely trying to persuade others to believe; rather, he wishes to force his religion on all, and destroy all who will not believe as he demands they do. His beliefs are so overbearing - all must believe as Dawkins does, or they will be damning the entire human race - is far more oppressive than Christianity has ever been.

At least in Christianity there is the hope that something better is attainable; in Dawkins religion, there is nothing, and none should dare to believe in anything...

[Valpal1]

A meme is a mental entity that colonises the brains of people, much as a virus colonises a cell.

Dawkins is a typhoid mary for a meme called Satan. Sad man with a sad (no) future.

[punster]

There is a Creator. However, I have my doubts that we will get a realistic picture of the Creator from the television evangelists.

The television evangelists insistence that evolution is contradictory to the concept of a Creator is wrong. The Creator created conditions for life to arise and endowed life with the ability to adapt to changing conditions.

There are a couple of concepts that are integral to the process:

1. Natural variability within a species.

2. Mutations that occur randomly (or perhaps, they are Deliberate). If the mutations are favorable to the survival of the organism, they tend to propagate).

What this means, is species will change over time to meet new conditions. Isolated gene pools may change enough to become a new species, given sufficient time.

[bourbon]

Faced with a page of Derrida and knowing that this drivel is being read and reproduced in a thousand American campuses, I have often found myself tempted by the theory of the meme.

This sentence very neatly describes why I became depressed during graduate school.

[Old Professer]

If Dawkins is the father of memetics, from whence came his inspiration, one might well ask.

[little jeremiah]

later read maybe ping.

[VOA]

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[RussP]

You might be interested in a little piece I wrote exposing the sophistry of Dawkins book "The Blind Watchmaker":

http://RussP.us/Dawkins.htm

[Zionist Conspirator]

While I appreciate anyone who punctures that gasbag Dawkins, the article betrays a view of religion that is abstract, non-literal, highly symbolic, and radically non-fundamentalist. And the author's choice of chr*stianity as superior to islam and Judaism (the latter of which is acknowledged by chr*stianity even as it commands the extermination of entire nations) seems extremely utilitarian.

Religion's one purpose is to be true, not to create or sustain civilizations, and for that one must find the True Historical Revelation, not speculate on which would create the best and most peaceful society.

[VOYAGER]

Scores of enlightened thinkers have followed him, declaring organised religion to be the enemy of mankind>

Organized religion is a works based salvation and is not based on faith plus nothing which is clearly set forth in the scriptures when God by His Holy Spirit opens the heart of understanding of those who please God by receiving His Word nothing doubting such as Israel rejected at Kadesh Barnea and as the Jews rejected Christ the Word Of God when they shouted, just prior to the Crucifixion, "we will not have this man rule over us" and said "let his blood be on us and our chidren" and shouted "release Barrabas unto us".

[NutCrackerBoy]

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