2006-12-04 18:02:03 · 7 answers · asked by Red Eye 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"because he puts into words what so many of us without a public platform want to say." :D
2006-12-04 18:06:40 · update #1
Hell, I am a closet Buddhist :) Well, no not really... but I tend to like a lot of the philosophy.
Dawkins is the man because he can explain the most intricate concepts so that (almost) anyone can understand them.
Yes, and what you said, too :)
2006-12-04 18:07:46 · answer #1 · answered by Snark 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It seems to me that the intelligent design answer to the evolution question is irrefutable. It simply says that design in the universe is undeniable. The law of cause and effect says that wherever you find design you must have a designer somewhere. Since the cause must have everything the effect does and the effect(the universe) has intelligence, the cause(the designer) must also have intelligence. So you need an intelligent designer of this universe. But who could design a universe outside of a God. You call Him whatever you want to call Him. I call Him a God. That refutes evolution since evolution says that everything came about by random chance. That argument, it seems to me, is irrefutable. The only way around that argument is to deny design. If you read Richard Dawkins two latest books('the blind watchmaker' and 'the god delusion') that's exactly what he does. He denies design. He says that there's no design in the universe, just the "appearance of design". But that's insane. You just can't logically and realistically deny that there's design all through the universe. It's all around you. You have to be blind not to see it. There are branches of science that basically just study the design in nature.........scientific disciplines such as nano-technology and bio-mimetrics. These disciplines study the design in nature.......whales,bats,dolph... have sonar.......and try to create machines that mimic that design. Everywhere you look there's design. Where there's design there's got to be a designer. That's just common sense. Creation is not an unproven theory. It's a common sense fact that we come to by just using a little logic and reason.
Paly's argument of the 1700's still holds today. He said that if you are walking through a forest and you find a watch sitting upon a rock, you have 2 possible explanations: 1)It was designed and built by a watchmaker 2) It came about the same way the rock that it is sitting upon came about.....by random chance. Which explantion makes more sense?
2006-12-05 02:35:42 · answer #2 · answered by upsman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because he puts into words what so many of us without a public platform want to say.
2006-12-05 02:04:13 · answer #3 · answered by odieman_3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dawkins is a biologist like many other except that he is a fanatical atheist. Now he is no physicist so his narrow knowledge of only birds or writing a big book of British birds does not cut it with more knowledgeable and educated people.
Sorry, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Holds true for every atheist I have ever talked to.
2006-12-05 02:37:00 · answer #4 · answered by defOf 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In my humble opinion, Professor Dawkins is a closet Buddhist.
Everything from his thoughts on emptiness to his ideas on the mind...
Buddhist.
2006-12-05 02:05:46 · answer #5 · answered by Bad Buddhist 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He has been pumping out those memes longer than anyone else. And he is just a hell of a lot smarter than me.
2006-12-05 02:04:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now there's a real religion and spirituality question fer ya.
2006-12-05 02:10:12 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 5⤋