(April 11, 2016 at 1:06 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(April 11, 2016 at 11:04 am)AAA Wrote: You ought to read The God Delusion by Dawkins. The whole thing (so far) is negative evidence against religion. The theme is: the religious are stupid, therefore there is no God. I have yet to see any science, while Signature in the Cell is full of it.
Leaving aside that you're wrong about the contents of the book, this is also a false equivalence: The God Delusion is not a science book and specifically has at its aim the deconstruction and examination of religious claims. Meanwhile, Signature in the Cell is ostensibly a science text meant to demonstrate a specific, scientifically based claim. They aren't remotely the same thing.
Wikepedia summarized the book as Dawkins showing that belief in a personal God was going strongly against evidence, which is what I hoped it would focus on. But like I said, I'm not too far into it yet. If all he was trying to do was display religion's crummy past, then he has succeeded so far. I don't think anyone would argue that many horrible things have been done in the name of religion.
