(December 2, 2008 at 11:46 am)Psalm 23 Wrote:(December 2, 2008 at 10:20 am)leo-rcc Wrote: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?f...geId=81459Yes, that is a tragedy. I feel sorry for the family.
Quote:A New York man is linking the suicide of his 22-year-old son, a military veteran who had bright prospects in college, to the anti-Christian book "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins after a college professor challenged the son to read it.
"Three people told us he had taken a biology class and was doing well in it, but other students and the professor were really challenging my son, his faith. They didn't like him as a Republican, as a Christian, and as a conservative who believed in intelligent design," the grief-stricken father, Keith Kilgore, told WND about his son, Jesse.
"This professor either assigned him to read or challenged him to read a book, 'The God Delusion,' by Richard Dawkins," he said.
Jesse Kilgore committed suicide in October by walking into the woods near his New York home and shooting himself. Keith Kilgore said he was shocked because he believed his son was grounded in Christianity, had blogged against abortion and for family values, and boasted he'd been debating for years.
This is of course a tragedy, anyone will agree. But it shows again how theists completely miss the point on atheism.
Richard Dawkins' book "The God Delusion" was tackled by Bill O'Reilly on the O'Reilly Factor.
Bill O'Reilly, "You can't prove Jesus Christ wasn't God."
Richard Dawkins, "That's correct, but you cannot prove to me Thor and Zeus were not gods."
Richard Dawkins doesn't realize that he was "set-up" by Bill O'Reilly on that question. Dawkins shot himself in the foot when he replied to O'Reilly. Because that means Dawkins cannot disprove any God in any manner. So, why write a book on something that cannot be disproved? Opinions are not fact.
Dawkins claims, "Lack of evidence leans towards there being no god."
However, once again, Dawkins is not using his tiny brain. The only way the final result can be "Lack of evidence" is when every option has been thoroughly examined. Has anyone in human history been capable of exploring the entire Universe?
Secondly, Richard Dawkins is a Biologist not a Psychiatrist. He was asked to prove God is a delusion, and he couldn't. What's up with that? It sounds like Mr. Dawkins suckered a million people into buying his book. It's sound a bit crazy to write a book called 'The God Delusion' if he cannot prove God is a delusion. That is a delusion in itself.
You are right to believe that O"Reilly didn't get the right answer from Richard Dawkins because his Darwinistic method of disproving God does not give a direct answer to the question put by O'Reilly.
The direct and simple answer is that God is a creation of man motivated by a string of clearly provable causes, the main of them being the help he gets from this belief in his dayly struggle for survival.
Being a creation of man, God can not reside in any place than in the mind of the person who is thinking of him.
That does answer also to the question which each religious person sees as a blasphemy, namely:"WHO CREATED GOD?" to which religion has no positive answer.
Science of nature, is by no means, able to totally disprove the existence of God ,by the very simple fact that Man being a link in the evolutionary chain of life on earth has not yet the answer to all problems of the Universe.His knowledge of Nature is therefore limited to the level of his momentarily physical and mental development.
Would Man be in possession of all answers he would be himself God,which he is not because God does not exist.
The inexistence of God makes the O'Reilly question irrelevant.
The existence of Jesus is sustained by the Gospel which is also a creation of man. The appearance of Christianity is a complex phenomenon explicable by a lot of causes of historical,social,economical and theological reasons all
of them provable by a series of writings of the history of 300 years since the appearance of Jesus in ancient Judeea till it's political acceptance by the emperor Constantinus.
Atheism does not mean to despise religion or religious people but to convince people of the truth of reason against the irrational belief in God.
