I think that he is an overrated extremist. But I am curious about your honest opinion
2007-08-07 09:56:58 · 11 answers · asked by jose g 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i think he's an extremist and I feel a lot of pity for the guy. He's so sure he's right, he's wagering everything on it.
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2007-08-07 10:05:09 · answer #1 · answered by The Brian 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I mostly agree with you. He's a great scientists and writer, has the ability to make people think. Is one of the few that brings out the scientific discoveries to the public. All in all he's a man on a mission and he's trying his best to make this world less ignorant, a noble cause imo. Mostly because he's actually smart enough to have an impact. About the worshiping...I don't worship him anymore then that I worship the footballqualities of C. Ronaldo. I'm a fan, nothing more.
2016-05-21 01:12:28 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An overrated extremist? Well my opinion of Dr. Dawkins could not differ more markedly from yours. Richard Dawkins might be quite vehement about his belief in the efficacy of science, and the absurdity of religious propositions, and the destructive effects that such beliefs have when they seek to control science education and how our government is run, but that is a testament to his conviction and not an indication that he is an extremist.
To me an extremist is one who seeks to bar the expression of ideas contrary to your own. Dawkins, has been nothing, if not open to debate. He, unlike his Christian fundamentalist adversaries, doesn’t seek to use government control to suppress opposing points of view. It is this willful exercise of force, to curtail the influence of the opposition, that is the hallmark of extremism.
As far as being overrated, he certainly is not. If anything, he is underappreciated. He has done more than most academics, in recent memory, in making the complexities of science, and lately philosophy, accessible to the common man.
2007-08-11 05:51:32 · answer #3 · answered by Lawrence Louis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He speaks what he believes, which is good.
Unfortunately, he is so rigidly fixed on his beliefs that no amount of evidence to the contrary will change them.
This fault is hardly limited to Richard Dawkins, but it is hardly becoming of a learned man of such renown and stature.
2007-08-07 10:09:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm currently reading 'The God Delusion', and, yes, I think he is overrated and not particularly brilliant (he thinks the trouble in Northern Ireland is a religious dispute, when it is actually a land dispute).
2007-08-07 10:15:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Richard Dawkins is a hero of mine.
And I don't believe it's "extremist" to speak out forcefully against religions that call for your death and/or eternal torture simply because you don't share their belief.
2007-08-07 10:08:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I agree with you. It seems that as I watched a video of him I became aware of his lack of understanding. He wants to have a purpose and has been educated, but his arguments are typically saying more about himself than about anything else.
Many people have adopted his line of thinking. I wonder at times, " Is that the best they can come up with?" But you look at the disciples of him, and you can tell they're so impressed. I guess that people who need something and they do not know God, flock to that kind of thing. And what does it get them? A death at the end with no hope of anything. Just a grave.
2007-08-07 10:06:04 · answer #7 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
He is a brilliant scientist and ethnologist. His atheism is not extremist, but it is militant. I like that. So is mine.
atheist
2007-08-07 10:02:47 · answer #8 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The god delusion. A brilliant piece of work.
2007-08-07 10:01:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Definitely an unstar-able question. I'll take the two...
2007-08-07 10:13:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋