The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God (1 Corinthians 3:19). 1JN 1:1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
1JN 1:2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)
1JN 1:3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
1JN 1:4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
1JN 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1JN 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
1JN 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
1JN 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1JN 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1JN 1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Karen Armstrong is a member of the Jesus Seminar. They might as well have asked the devil to represent the religious side.
Dawkins first dismisses the possibility of the universe having been created by a superior Being, using the following circular reasoning:Making the universe is the one thing no intelligence, however superhuman, could do, because an intelligence is complexstatistically improbable and therefore had to emerge, by gradual degrees, from simpler beginnings: from a lifeless universethe miracle-free zone that is physics.
That statement is so astonishingly STOO-PID™ I almost don't know where to begin.
Except to say, I guess Dawkins isn't aware of the world of Particle Physics. Its so 'miracle free', new physics had to be invented to explain it, Quantum Mechanics. And that still DOESN'T explain all the weird things that go on there (like Leptons).
And that's one reason Einstein didn't believe in Quantum Mechanics. He didn't think GOD would make a 'world' where utter Chaos exists and you'd have to invent new physics to 'explain it'.
(Einstein was no atheist)
Karen Armstrong is the devil in a red dress...