Dear friends, Another video of max 4 minutes for your information = my next book. The ** anti-religion ** wars started by Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris will heat up even more with the salvo’s from celebrated Oxford biologist Dawkins. For a scientist who criticizes religion for its intolerance, Dawkins has written a surprisingly intolerant book, full of scorn for religion and those who believe. But Dawkins, who gave us the selfish gene, anticipates this criticism. He says its the scientist and humanist in him that makes him hostile to religions—fundamentalist Christianity and Islam come in to close peoples minds to scientific truth, oppress women and abuse children psychologically with the notion of eternal damnation. While Dawkins can be witty, even confirmed atheists who agree with his advocacy of science and vigorous rationalism may have trouble stomaching some of his rhetoric: the biblical Yahweh is psychotic, Aquinass proofs of Gods existence are fatuous and religion generally is nonsense. The most effective chapters are those in which Dawkins calms down, for instance, drawing on evolution to disprove the ideas behind intelligent design. In other chapters, he attempts to construct scientific scaffolding for atheism, such as using evolution again to rebut the notion that without God there can be no morality. He insists that religion is a divisive and oppressive force. ► It is my believe that the world would be better and more peaceful without it. Maybe – I do not know for sure – one more generation and at least Central Europe will be free of religion and its dogma’s. I can see the first signs of it, i.e. when looking at the generation of my grandchildren. Walter
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 10:09:04 +0000
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