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Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?

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Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?
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RE: Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?
July 23, 2012 at 10:43 am
6.5: I am 100% certain the abrahamic god does not exist simply due to the endless spewing of fallacies, contradictions, impossibilities and everything else that that entails. Now if you broaden the definition of god, then I can never be 100% sure, now can I?
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RE: Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?
July 23, 2012 at 10:53 am
9. I have no concrete evidence existence exists. Actually I find Dawkins a bit of a wide boy.
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RE: Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?
July 23, 2012 at 11:19 am (This post was last modified: July 23, 2012 at 11:20 am by Tempus.)
(July 23, 2012 at 10:40 am)apophenia Wrote: However, it sounds suspiciously like Dawkins knows fuckall about religion and psychology. (And yes, Dawkins uses the masculine pronoun in the book. I chose not to acquire Delusion on account of what seemed credible complaints about his scholarship. I'm hardly encouraged at this juncture.)

The God Delusion was useful for me as a starting point when I picked it up but I wouldn't recommend it now. The scale, like some other stuff in the book, is basically useless at best or downright confusing at worst (for laypeople anyway). I'd agree Dawkins probably knows little regarding religion, psychology or philosophy, as that initial chapter (as well as some subsequent ones), in my opinion, demonstrates. The rest of the book is mainly concerned with arguments you've likely already heard. It's not like there's nothing salvageable, it's just there's better resources out there.
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RE: Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?
July 23, 2012 at 11:24 am
7, because what is a god depends on personal opinion alone. There is no clear definition of the term. Using mine, I doubt anyone but theists would rank anything less than a 7.
The truth is absolute. Life forms are specks of specks (...) of specks of dust in the universe.
Why settle for normal, when you can be so much more? Why settle for something, when you can have everything?

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RE: Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?
July 23, 2012 at 12:24 pm
I would say I am a 7, but I am open to the possibility (how ever very very very unlikely) of a God.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
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Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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RE: Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?
July 23, 2012 at 12:43 pm
(July 23, 2012 at 10:27 am)Godschild Wrote: I'm absolutely a 1.

You KNOW he exists?

ROFLOL
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.

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RE: Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?
July 23, 2012 at 12:56 pm (This post was last modified: July 23, 2012 at 1:01 pm by Whateverist.)
Unapologetically and apathetically a "6". The topic does not warrant the leg-humping passion of a 7.

But really, as Tiberius says, this scale does not adequately separate the issues of knowledge and belief. I prefer to say I am 100% agnostic and also 100% atheist. Of the two, I'd say being agnostic makes a bigger difference in my life.
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RE: Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?
July 23, 2012 at 1:08 pm
I'm a strong 6.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan

Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.

Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.

You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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RE: Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?
July 23, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Well, okay, I don't really work out or anything but isn't a six a six?
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RE: Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?
July 23, 2012 at 1:14 pm
6.9 for any god....

7.1 for the absurd angry desert god creation of stupid goat herders and their modern idiot believers.
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