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Worlds most prominant atheist stumped.
David:
I watched a program that's shown on BBC in the early hours called hard talk. The guest was Professor Richard Dawkins. He was asked this very profound question. (wording may not be exact, I'm paraphrasing from memory) "If as you say, our brains and thought pattern's are the result of Darwinian evolution, subject only to the laws of natural selection, that we have evolved from various primitive pre human species into modern man, that our concept of morality and society is based on Darwinian utility, then surely if religion is a myth, the laws of evolution would have reasoned and evolved such foolish thinking out of our modern psyche? How then do you explain that at no time in human history have there been more Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindu's and people of other faiths than at this present time, when human understanding and knowledge is at its highest ever?"
Well, Dawkins looked positively shaken by this concept, and his answer......"You would have to put that question to a Psychologist, I'm a biologist."
Sure does punch a big hole in the atheistic hypotheses, they argue we are evolving, more advanced with each generation, yet more of us believe in a God than at any other time in history.
Kent:
That displays a principle I have noticed about this particular kind of atheist: They attack God with such a fervency that you would swear that they believed in Him.
If there is no God, why attack Him and those that believe? Why bother? Imagine wasting all of that energy hating something that they dont even acknowledge exists.
It's like me declaring war on the tooth fairy, writing a book about it, going on radio and TV, being a Mr Big Shot VIP in the anti-tooth fairy movement; all because some young kids believe in it.
Craig:
Misery loves company :(
Craig
KristaD:
--- Quote from: Kent on April 14, 2008, 07:21:07 AM ---
It's like me declaring war on the tooth fairy, writing a book about it, going on radio and TV, being a Mr Big Shot VIP in the anti-tooth fairy movement; all because some young kids believe in it.
--- End quote ---
:D They sound even more stupid when you put it that way ;D
phazel:
Actually, many atheists are not attacking God as much as they attack the theology and goals of some Christians.
The Question that stumped Dawkins typically is the cornerstone of Christians who wish to remove evolution from classroom teaching and stick God in every place that science does not have an answer for.
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