(October 23, 2008 at 5:10 am)Kyuuketsuki Wrote:(October 22, 2008 at 7:28 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Also Dawkins said - and I paraphrase here - : The difference between fundamentalism, and what's simply just passion, is that fundamentalism is what happens if you're passionate about something in the absence of evidence.
It becomes fundamentalism when your passion rejects evidence.
Hope I got that right.
I guess this must be the quote you're referring to:
"No, please, do not mistake passion, which can change its mind, for fundamentalism, which never will. Passion for passion, an evangelical Christian and I may be evenly matched. But we are not equally fundamentalist. The true scientist, however passionately he may "believe", in evolution for example, knows exactly what would change his mind: evidence! The fundamentalist knows that nothing will." Dawkins (from How dare you call me a fundamentalist)
Good quote so thanks
Kyu
Thats the quote yes, just a slightly different version. I was thinking of the longer version of the quote from the Preface To The Paperback Edition of TGD, which is a quite a bit longer so I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post it for copyright reasons. The version of 'You are just as much of a fundamentalist as those you criticize' that I'm thinking of is about a page long, - it goes into more detail. But I'm not sure if I'm allowed to quote the whole (about a page), as I said - for copyright reasons.
