Well, alright, he's only made me lose maybe twelve hours of sleep over a month. It's just, I expect a better counter argument from an Oxford professor and I think it is inappropriate for him to be making a lot of those statement in the guise of a scientist.
Sure, sometimes he's asinine, but is someone who is in essence just a nonbeliever worth losing sleep over? I'd be way more worried about all of the bigots who are taking religion in increasingly more radical directions.
I see religious abused by idiots on a daily basis. I have no problem with someone being a nonbeliever. I have a problem with someone, especially with his standing to say science disproved the existence of God. The man can believe whatever he wants, he can write as many books explaining that belief, but when he says he is right and others are wrong because science says so it bothers me, because it is something that science can never prove or disprove.
I would like to see this "proof of no (G/g)od." Assuming that "science" disproved God, there should be tests that I can repeat for my self, and other background data. SAUCE PLZ KTHXBAI!!!!111 Also, WTF at the woman from the African Heritage Community Reception.
It wasn't tests. His logical argument went, with an understanding of evolution we know that intelligence and consciousness evolve over time and are not simply there. God, being a superconscious superintelligent being, therefor, could not have existed prior to/at the moment of creation, and therefor could not exist at all.
I mean, he wrote a book, The God Delusion, so I imagine the argument is a bit more complex than that.
AND! this is what bothers me most. Liberty University was there, so all the questions pro-God were stupid and more asinine than Dawkins could ever hope to be, except two. This was one of them, and he dismissed it harsher than he dismissed, "but what if you're wrong? *whimper whimper*"
I thought what he had to say about religious oppression in America was golden, and I was thinking about it while we were watching Jesus Camp, and all those "Christian children" who were really just the children of Christians.
Yeah, I understand. It's more frustrating for me when someone who professes to share my beliefs or opinions turns out to use faulty logic or, worse, is a dick about it than, say, Bill O'Reilly, who is just an all-around evil dude.
p.s. Let's hang out soon. What are your evenings like? Say, Thursday?
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I mean, he wrote a book, The God Delusion, so I imagine the argument is a bit more complex than that.
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I thought what he had to say about religious oppression in America was golden, and I was thinking about it while we were watching Jesus Camp, and all those "Christian children" who were really just the children of Christians.
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p.s. Let's hang out soon. What are your evenings like? Say, Thursday?
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