RE: The Dawkins' Argument.
December 20, 2015 at 12:45 pm
(This post was last modified: December 20, 2015 at 2:02 pm by Brian37.)
(December 20, 2015 at 11:23 am)LastPoet Wrote: Not a fan of Dawkins. The thing is, no one defines gods precisely. Doing that, it allowed it to be falsified... you must believe it, without questioning. Europe has its share of religious strife, most people I know are religious, yet, it has become like a conforting blanket to them and they keep to themselves.
In the US, there seems to be a more pervasive effect on people. Anti-theism is a thing.
He is a bit of a stuffed shirt and nobody I would want to hang out at a bar with, I'd go with Hitchens for that.
But exactly what is he wrong about? In his book the God Delusion he explains scientifically why humans flawed perceptions lead to god claims. He is dead right. God claims are merely reflections of human traits, it is no different than a dog barking at it's own reflection in the mirror. His book describes god belief as "The moth mistaking the light bulb for moonlight".
Humans fall for their own false perceptions just like if you tell a kid at a Halloween party in the dark kitchen that the bowl of covered olives are eyeballs. No different than seeing that butterfly in the inkblot.
Flawed perceptions are evolutionary, and they stem from life not always having the time to assess in fight or flight. The antelope on the African plains doesn't always have time asses if the swaying tal grass is mere wind or a lion stalking it. Our brains gap fill all the time every day most of the time with us never taking notice. It is why you can walk into a closed glass door because you falsely think there is no glass there because it is so clean. No different than when you cant find your keys while you are carrying them around.
Humans gap fill and religion and god claims are a result of not understanding how our brains work and can easily fool us.
Yes anti theism is a thing, just like if you had a friend going around claiming the Yankees won the Superbowl. I see nothing wrong and everything good about challenging bad logic and naked assertions. Now, if you confuse that with lack of empathy for others, or anti human rights, that is your baggage. Humans have rights, but claims as ideas don't deserve blind value. Having the right to make a claim does not make the claim itself credible. If our species never questioned social norms our species never would have left the caves.
