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Dawkins' Latest Book: The Greatest Lie on Earth
ICR News ^ | September 23, 2009 | Brian Thomas, M.S.

Posted on 09/23/2009 8:07:38 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts

ichard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion and perhaps today’s most famous Darwin apologist, has a new book that hit bookstores this month. The Greatest Show on Earth promises to meet his high standard of creative and convincing tale-telling.

“Evolution leaves God with nothing to do,” Dawkins wrote in a Wall Street Journal article that posted before the book’s launch. Then, revealing a stunningly pantheistic faith, he asserted that “life is arguably the most surprising and most beautiful production that the laws of physics have ever generated.”[1]

But does the book present support for this assessment from the actions of those same physical laws?...

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1 posted on 09/23/2009 8:07:38 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: metmom; DaveLoneRanger; editor-surveyor; betty boop; Alamo-Girl; MrB; GourmetDan; Fichori; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 09/23/2009 8:12:25 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

>> “life is arguably the most surprising and most beautiful production that the laws of physics have ever generated.”

Does he provide any clues as to Who cooked up the laws of physics?


3 posted on 09/23/2009 8:12:27 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

bookmark


4 posted on 09/23/2009 8:13:37 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Nervous Tick

Dawkins believes they came from “nothing”...LOL!


5 posted on 09/23/2009 8:13:45 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

Classic college professor approach. Change the original work ever so slightly, call it a new edition, maybe even give it a new title, and stomp out the used book market for the original work.


6 posted on 09/23/2009 8:13:52 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: GodGunsGuts

>> Dawkins believes they came from “nothing”...LOL!

The poor man needs a LOT of faith to believe a fantasy like that. It flies in the face of reason.


7 posted on 09/23/2009 8:16:13 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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“life is arguably the most surprising and most beautiful production that the laws of physics have ever generated.”

When he produces just a simple little single-celled living organism out of naturally occurring raw materials, I'll listen to him.

8 posted on 09/23/2009 8:17:50 AM PDT by EricT. ("Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government." -George Washington)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Dawkins is an example of one clearly educated beyond his intelligence.


9 posted on 09/23/2009 8:19:04 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

The Seinfeld explanation.


10 posted on 09/23/2009 8:19:42 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Nervous Tick
"The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved literally out of nothing – is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice."

Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale, 2004

11 posted on 09/23/2009 8:21:33 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts
God is in His rest. His works were completed.

The Holy Spirit is with believers ... doing His work today.

The message of the Gospel does its own work. The living word. ... convicts and causes people to turn from their lost, and sinful ways. His sheep hear His voice and follow Him.

Dawkin's is doing what has always been since the garden of Eden ... believing a lie, and every man is doing ‘that which is right in his own eyes.’

12 posted on 09/23/2009 8:23:31 AM PDT by geologist (The only answer to the troubles of this life is Jesus. A decision we all must make.)
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To: beethovenfan

When I was in the USMC, we would have called him an “Educated Idiot” :o)


13 posted on 09/23/2009 8:23:56 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

Dawkins: God is dead.
God: Dawkins is dead.


14 posted on 09/23/2009 8:26:39 AM PDT by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: GodGunsGuts

I will look forward to his Judgment Day


15 posted on 09/23/2009 8:27:31 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: randog

God to Dawkins: get your own dirt


16 posted on 09/23/2009 8:27:45 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: geologist
Hey, geologist, I just checked your profile page to see if you are an actually geologist. It doesn't say. But what I did find was Alfred Jay Nock’s essay “Isaiah's Job”, which is my favorite essay to post when Christian conservatives are down in the dumps and thinking about giving up the fight. At any rate, it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance, and I look forward to more of your replies in the threads.

All the best—GGG

17 posted on 09/23/2009 8:28:08 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

Dawkins is a man of zealous faith.


18 posted on 09/23/2009 8:28:16 AM PDT by Tribune7 (I am Joe Wilson!)
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To: GodGunsGuts

A man that smart (and gullible) should be able to answer a few simple science-related questions, then.

1) Why exactly do we sleep, and dream?

2) After you are done explaining #1, tell me why after supposedly tens of billions of years, we haven’t evolved out of what appears to be a giant waste of 1/3 of our lives.

3) What, precisely, lies at the bottom of the ocean? How and why is it there? We have been to the moon, a couple hundred thousand miles away — and we know more about it than we do the bottom of our ocean, a mere 7 miles away.

4) Ditto, the center of the earth. That’s only 4,000 miles away — not as far as China from San Francisco.

... and so on...


19 posted on 09/23/2009 8:31:37 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: randog; A_Former_Democrat

Indeed, if Dawkins doesn’t get his act together and accept Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior, he will be dying a second death, which will be infinitly worse than his physical death. As hard as it is for us to do, whenever thoughts of the enemies of Christ (such as Richard Dawkins) enter our minds, we should take a brief moment and say a prayer for their souls.


20 posted on 09/23/2009 8:33:24 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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