Nah, you're not dumb. You're trying to learn, and that's more than a lot of theists will do. Physics and chemistry are complicated as balls; if it were all common sense, we wouldn't need physicists and chemists!
Props for actually picking up the book. I'm not sure I agree with everything in it (ex, Dawkins' rant on abortion. I'm still not sure where I stand on the issue...), but it's definitely a good starting point. If the parts on cosmology are too much for now, skip them and come back later. Hell, we have a science section here you can ask questions at.
I recently read Lawrence Krauss' "A Universe From Nothing - Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing". THAT book was a doozy! Some pages, hell, damn near whole chapters I had to read over and over to get wtf he was saying!
Bottom line JL1, you need to hold your head up and exhibit some goddamn self-confidence. You're not dumb, but with that kind of attitude, you'll never get far. You are the result of a 3.5 billion year evolutionary battle for survival. Fucking at like it.
Props for actually picking up the book. I'm not sure I agree with everything in it (ex, Dawkins' rant on abortion. I'm still not sure where I stand on the issue...), but it's definitely a good starting point. If the parts on cosmology are too much for now, skip them and come back later. Hell, we have a science section here you can ask questions at.
I recently read Lawrence Krauss' "A Universe From Nothing - Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing". THAT book was a doozy! Some pages, hell, damn near whole chapters I had to read over and over to get wtf he was saying!
Bottom line JL1, you need to hold your head up and exhibit some goddamn self-confidence. You're not dumb, but with that kind of attitude, you'll never get far. You are the result of a 3.5 billion year evolutionary battle for survival. Fucking at like it.
