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Richard Dawkins: The Greatest Show on Earth

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Dawkins Compares Creationists to Holocaust Deniers

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Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins compares Holocaust deniers to the creationists who are waging battle against teaching the theory of evolution in public schools.
Richard Dawkins Explains Darwinian Selection of Universes

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Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins weighs the possibilities of the anthropic principle as it applies to physics.

He also presents the theory that universes are bound to Darwinian selection, passing on traits to daughter universes birthed from black holes.
Dawkins Answers Why He Refuses to Debate Creationists

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Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explains he no longer debates creationists because his presence only validates their status. He compares the situation to a reproductive scientist agreeing to debate an advocate of the "stork theory."
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Aaberg

Posted: 10.26.09, 11:24 AM

InVinoVeritas. Analogies can only help explain something in a simplified manner, never bring proof themselves. Bring your proof, then we'll debate it. Ps. Dawkins is as agnostic about God, as you are agnostic about Zeus. That should explain his position pretty well.

underbelly

Posted: 10.25.09, 08:45 PM

InVinoVeritas... if you see religion as such a beautiful thing as ballet, then your subjectivity might be colouring your analogies. I'm not saying religion isn't beautiful; in the same sense that Picasso's Guernica is beautiful

underbelly

Posted: 10.25.09, 08:38 PM

aselmiano... the WHY question... I think Dawkins may have found so much enrichment and enlightenment in his life-long persuit of the HOW questions of life, that the question "WHY?" simply never comes up. ie. there is no doubt underlying his fundamental understanding of the universe.

InVinoVeritas

Posted: 10.25.09, 08:15 PM

Dawkins is little more than a playground provocateur with a clever-sounding accent. Agnosticism is a rational and intellectually honorable tradition. Hard atheism, on the other hand, is every bit as fantastical and dishonest as fundamentalist religion. The atheists don't know, the fundamentalists don't know. They both act like they do and are equally presumptuous in their pretensions. "Ditchkins" - as the eminent English Marxist theorist Terry Eagleton calls the trinity of atheist poseurs - miss the point entirely. "Believing that religion is a botched attempt to explain the world . . . is like seeing ballet as a botched attempt to run for a bus."

anselmiano

Posted: 10.25.09, 02:25 PM

So now Darwinians resent being asked to show the intermediate forms predicted by their theory?! That's heading in the unscientific direction of asking us to just take their word for it. And asking "why are we here" a silly question? It is one of the most fundamental questions of philosophy! The fact that atheists like Dawkins have only meaninglessness and pointlessness to offer for an answer doesn't mean that it is a "silly" question. Not asking it is what is in fact not just silly but deeply shallow.

farber2

Posted: 10.25.09, 06:28 AM

when evolution began might be debated, but evolution is happening right now, it's not debatable. ever see a ball game? did the winner of the ball game go on to the play offs? this is survival of the fitest. it is right there in front of you. when ever you think people began, they started evolving right then.

guyinsfca

Posted: 10.09.09, 09:40 PM

i was question 1 ... my 15 min .... the shirt he made a comment on was the 'Scarlet Letter - A' T-shirts from his OUT Campaign.

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