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Your Views on Dawkins?
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RE: Your Views on Dawkins?
December 19, 2012 at 10:23 am (This post was last modified: December 19, 2012 at 10:24 am by Faith No More.)
(December 19, 2012 at 3:29 am)Ryantology Wrote: Reading The God Delusion tipped me over the edge from agnostic to atheist. I respect the guy a lot.

Reading God Is Not Great by Christoper Hitchens let me know that I actually was an atheist and had been one all along.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Your Views on Dawkins?
December 19, 2012 at 10:37 am
(December 19, 2012 at 5:06 am)Gilgamesh Wrote: Huh. I'm an agnostic and an atheist. I think most people here are.

Yeah, in the technical sense I remain so myself. But, before that, I was one of those kinds who insisted that both arguments were equal in their impossibility to prove. Dawkins specifically addresses this stance and in such a way that I changed my mind.
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RE: Your Views on Dawkins?
December 19, 2012 at 11:51 am
(December 18, 2012 at 7:35 am)Aractus Wrote: [quote='downbeatplumb' pid='375920' dateline='1355821689']How else
Why don't you try actually understanding my POV as I articulate it very clearly. I don't presume ID theory over Evolution at all.

In that case I apologise.



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RE: Your Views on Dawkins?
January 23, 2013 at 12:30 pm
Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher were the 2 people that convinced me to rid myself of religious crap.

Richard is a very smart man, we need more people like him on this earth.
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. - Richard Dawkins
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RE: Your Views on Dawkins?
January 23, 2013 at 5:15 pm
Funnily enough, even though I'm atheist, I have to say that Dawkins annoys me. He just does, and always has.
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: Your Views on Dawkins?
January 23, 2013 at 5:18 pm
(January 23, 2013 at 12:30 pm)mohnjorrow Wrote: Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher were the 2 people that convinced me to rid myself of religious crap.

Richard is a very smart man, we need more people like him on this earth.

Have you seen/read anything of Christopher Hitchens?
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RE: Your Views on Dawkins?
January 23, 2013 at 5:18 pm
(December 18, 2012 at 1:23 am)clemdog14 Wrote: Hello everyone. I was just wondering you all think of Richard Dawkins.

Meh. [Image: tenerife-forum-reading-newspaper-smiley.gif]
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: Your Views on Dawkins?
January 23, 2013 at 5:21 pm
WTF Ace, where have you been?
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RE: Your Views on Dawkins?
January 23, 2013 at 5:24 pm
(January 23, 2013 at 5:21 pm)LastPoet Wrote: WTF Ace, where have you been?

Chasing women and lost dreams. Got the girls attention, the dreams however, I found that they were thousands of miles further away than first thought.

I left for a while to take a lengthy break from debating. Had my break, so now...I'm back. Big Grin
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: Your Views on Dawkins?
January 23, 2013 at 6:32 pm
(January 23, 2013 at 5:18 pm)Insanity x Wrote:
(January 23, 2013 at 12:30 pm)mohnjorrow Wrote: Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher were the 2 people that convinced me to rid myself of religious crap.

Richard is a very smart man, we need more people like him on this earth.

Have you seen/read anything of Christopher Hitchens?
Yes, Christopher is awesome!
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. - Richard Dawkins
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