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Richard Dawkins' Faith In Free Will Is As Blind As A Christians To God
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RE: Richard Dawkins' Faith In Free Will Is As Blind As A Christians To God
(July 3, 2010 at 4:15 pm)Cecco Wrote: it's all paraphrasing, but it gets to the point - he believes religion can be educated out of us. but humans are not logical beings. this is belief in free will yadda yadda said it before.
It's not paraphrasing. Dawkins is actually formulating quite accurately to get across the point that there is no room for independent agency in nature. Also, the belief that religion "can be educated out of us", whether he endorses it or not, is not inconsistent with determinism. How you've reached that conclusion beats me. It is a typical line of attack only a theist would make to discredit Dawkins.

(July 3, 2010 at 4:15 pm)Cecco Wrote: i'm just a bloke giving an opinion. love the idea i could be a fraud. what arrogance to even suggest it.
My hunch is sustained by every reply you put out. You try to attribute something to Dawkins that he is not sayng. And you have no clue what determinism is about.
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
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RE: Richard Dawkins' Faith In Free Will Is As Blind As A Christians To God - by Purple Rabbit - July 4, 2010 at 3:23 am

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