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[Atheist Biologist] Dawkins: Evangelist an 'idiot' on evolution
CNN ^ | November 25, 2009 | Peter Wilkinson

Posted on 12/25/2009 11:36:48 PM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode

referring to U.S.-based evangelist Ray Comfort, who argues that the universe and life is the result of an intelligent creator, Dawkins said: "There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist, and not an idiot.

"You can't prove there's no God, no fairies, no leprechauns, or that Thor or Apollo don't exist. There's got to be a positive reason to think that fairies exist. Until somebody does, we can say technically we are agnostic about fairies. We can't disprove them, but we think it's a bit of a waste of time trying. And the same goes for God."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: atheists; darwin; dawkins; evolution
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This is what the evolution business is all about.
1 posted on 12/25/2009 11:36:49 PM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode
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To: metmom; GodGunsGuts; tpanther
ping.

What is evolution science? Click here and find out.

2 posted on 12/25/2009 11:39:09 PM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

I like Ray Comfort. He is no “idiot”.


3 posted on 12/25/2009 11:45:10 PM PST by boop (Democracy is the theory that the people get the government they deserve, good and hard.)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
Dawkins said: "There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist, and not an idiot.

It takes one to know one......

*Dawkins* is synonymous with *idiot*.

4 posted on 12/25/2009 11:45:56 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

The existence of Dawkins proves that fairies exist.


5 posted on 12/25/2009 11:47:02 PM PST by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
"Dan Dennett, the U.S. philosopher said it was the best idea anyone ever had. It explains the whole of life, the diversity, the beauty of life, above all the illusion of design.

I'd just love to know what solid, incontrovertible, scientific reason Dennett and Dawkins have to justify their statements that the universe and life just show the *illusion of design*? How do they know that it's just an illusion? What great insight or revelation revealed that to them?

Dennett and Dawkins have the illusion of being intelligent.

6 posted on 12/25/2009 11:54:31 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

A man came to Earth claiming to be God. During His life, He was seen performing acts that only God could perform. He healed the sick, lame, deformed and blind by the power of His will, both by touch and at a distance; He displayed complete control over wind, waves, and weather; He multiplied matter; He walked on water; He transmuted one substance into another; He predicted future events with 100% accuracy; He passed through hostile crowds in a mysterious manner; He was bodily transfigured into a godlike form; He raised the dead; and, after His own murder, He Himself returned from the dead, after which He was was seen to pass through closed doors and walls, cook and eat food, and ascend into the sky, each act in front of eyewitnesses.

These facts are all part of the historical record.


7 posted on 12/26/2009 12:00:09 AM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

“God is dead.” - Nietzsche

“Nietzsche is dead.” - God


8 posted on 12/26/2009 12:02:34 AM PST by Lauren BaRecall (Merry Christmas!)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

He said, “Hunches aren’t interesting, hunches aren’t valuable.”

The then said, “Darwin had a hunch.”

And he’s calling someone else an idiot? The man talks in circles.


He also come across as a very bitter and angry person. He must be a joy to be around.


9 posted on 12/26/2009 12:03:56 AM PST by boycott
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To: B-Chan

These facts are all part of the historical record.


The evidence of Jesus life, death, and resurrection are far greater than the evidence of java man. As it turned out, java man was pretty much a fabrication of these whacko evolutionists.

Science used to laugh at the comparisons the Bible made to the number of grains of sand on our seashores. In fact, only a few hundred years ago one scientist proclaimed there were 1056 stars. Well, after Galileo made an important discovery, it is clear that the Bible was right and science was WRONG.


10 posted on 12/26/2009 12:12:29 AM PST by boycott
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

Unfortunately, a lot of the people arguing against the atheist position, while not idiots, are waaaaay out of their league.


11 posted on 12/26/2009 12:13:00 AM PST by john in springfield (One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe such things.No ordinary man could be such a fool.)
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To: boop
I like my brother-in-law and he is an idiot. My liking him doesn't make any difference.
12 posted on 12/26/2009 12:14:28 AM PST by Misterioso (Common sense is a simple and non-self-conscious use of logic. -- Ayn Rand)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

Climate scientists and evolutionary scientists are two sides of the same corrupt coin, both being influenced by money in not-so-good ways.

Both rely on fraudulent data and evidence, both hold monopolies on their respective peer-review processes and journals, both are world views masquerading as “science” to dupe the public out of research funding, and both have a$$clowns like Gore and Dawkins saying their respective “sciences” are “settled” by a “vast majority of scientists” and calling people on the other side “flat-earthers” and “idiots” for not buying the junk they’re pushing.

Dawkins, like Gore, is nothing more than a money-grubbing politician, who makes his living peddling this junk, and their cult-like followers and “true believers” are nothing more than fools for buying it.


13 posted on 12/26/2009 12:19:33 AM PST by Stingray (Stand for the truth or you'll fall for anything.)
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To: B-Chan
"A man came to Earth claiming to be God. During His life, He was seen performing acts that only God could perform. He healed the sick, lame, deformed and blind by the power of His will

I firmly believe that even if Christ descended upon Earth and performed miracles in the presence of all of these atheists..irrefutable evidence that Jesus Christ IS the Son of God, they still wouldn't believe him. To do so would mean that they would need to admit they were wrong all along. And they will take that mistake to the gates of Hell and beyond. As C.S. Lewis once said, the gates of Gell are locked from the INSIDE.

14 posted on 12/26/2009 12:20:40 AM PST by Soothesayer9
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To: boop

Ray Comfort? He’s the banana man!


15 posted on 12/26/2009 12:29:07 AM PST by bezelbub
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
Past a certain level of IQ, even given a fraudulent background thesis like evoloserism, it is not possible for a person to spend an entire lifetime without producing anything useful. Two of the people you mention, J.B.S. Haldane and Sir Arthur Keith produced things which are useful in the war against evolution, i.e. the Haldane dilemma (which Haldane himself wrongly assumed would be resolved somehow or other) and Keith's "Evolution and Ethics".

Another gigantic argument against evoloserism which you can attribute at least in part to Haldane and which is supposed to be the main mathematical basis for all evolutionary theory is the question of genetic death.

16 posted on 12/26/2009 12:45:13 AM PST by wendy1946
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To: metmom

This was amusing:

Public faces of Richard Dawkins’ Atheism Campaign Were ... Devout Christian Children
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391128/posts


17 posted on 12/26/2009 1:18:36 AM PST by donna (Democracy is not enough. If the culture dies, the country dies. - Pat Buchanan)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

“The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator “ Roman’s 1:18-32


18 posted on 12/26/2009 1:55:56 AM PST by timetostand (Merry Christmas)
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To: familyop

19 posted on 12/26/2009 2:02:10 AM PST by 2Jedismom
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To: boycott

Dawkins brain is shrinking.


20 posted on 12/26/2009 3:35:29 AM PST by muawiyah
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