I'm too dumb to be an atheist

[thesummerqueen]

Despite all the ununderstandable scientific jibberish, Dawkins really just doesn't know how something could come from nothing.

Krauss does.

Your avatar lends this post an amount of smug that borderlines disturbing.

Quite true. He even says as much.

However, in the absence of such knowledge he does not infer God as an alternative.

You're right, but with all the learned people attesting to experiences with a god throught human history, it leaves it open for consideration.

Experiences with God are not evidence of God. They're anecdotes.






JL, I'm pretty shitty at maths and economics. My boyfriend, on the other hand, is a whiz at them. Meanwhile, I find it easy to parse out a story - movie or book. We trade off by discussing these subjects - math or literature - because taking a book about any of those topics piece by piece is a MUCH easier method than trying to cram it all in at once. Frequently I will read something out loud to him and then we will talk about it.

In your case, if you feel overwhelmed, perhaps you should divide the book into subheadings, mark off what you're struggling with, and do further research just on that one thing at a time, or enlist friends to help state the information in a different manner.

I know a lot of people who think Shakespeare is boring as shit and unreadable. That's until you get someone who really really loves The Bard in front of them who can put him in context, and 'translate' the Renaissance language into modern prose (even though you lose something then since a lot of Shakespeare is "punny"). I laugh at the number of people who think Clueless is a great 90's movie but think Jane Austen is 'boring'. It's all because the language puts them off. You might find the same problem with Dawkins and it will help to have someone "translate" it all.