Richard Dawkins and the God of the Old Testament

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I'm bored so I'll reply.


Natural selection isn't a character, isn't fictional, isn't a conscious being so therefore can't be jealous, petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak, blood thirsty or a control freak or any of the other things mentioned about the god of the old testament.

The rest of the article is stupid and boring because it's repeating the same old bullshit that Christians invented morals, without Christianity no one has any sense of good or bad (bullshit) so no one should be annoyed about murderers or other criminals unless an invisible man says it is evil (bullshit).

The article says what would evolution look like if we tried to make a god out of it?  That's just some kind of primitive bullshit question, why make a god out of a scientific theory.  It's like saying we shouldn't believe in gravity because the god of gravity is deceptively attractive and can be deadly.

Wiker's point is that natural selection is no less callously indifferent to the sufferings of the weak than is the "God of the OT" as He is commonly misrepresented by atheists.

So, after dismissing the existence of God, you're actually no better off than you were before.

No, he's saying that if you turn natural selection into a conscious being, then natural selection is no less callously indifferent to the suffering of the weak.

Natural selection isn't a conscious being, it's a scientific theory.

 Natural selection put very very simply is just a statement that some animals die and go extinct, some animals reproduce, survive and don't go extinct.  God consciously drowns families of people, orders genocide, kills people on a whim.

  It's as stupid as turning the theory of gravity into a conscious being and then saying don't believe gravity exists because even though it is attractive it's a heartless killer causing people to fall to their deaths, just like some female serial killers.

As for being better off it depends if that person is better off with bullshit or not.  Some people are better off with it, I would argue humanity is better off without bullshit.