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religion isn't the root of all evil religion AND science is. pwnd* |
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he is just a silly american. |
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Dawkins isn't American. He's British. |
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that was a good 7 minutes of hilariously painful disinformation on the internet there |
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would you care to elaborate why you feel that science is the root to all evil? |
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he's working on the equation right now |
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Tom Cruise is the tuss of the scientology |
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science has given a great power to do evil on a very different level. a physical evil. not just a mental one. |
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it's almost like... well... the more we know. the more problems we create for ourselves maybe we should just leave it all be. big nosey noses |
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YOU TALK OUT OF YOUR ASS. |
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i just had my first internet deja vu |
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science is a process of learning efficiently. that's not bad imo. |
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who is dawkins |
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hey hey hey! stop shooting up the messenger. i just heard that 'science is bad' that's all. jeeeeeeeeezus some people! fuck ME |
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isnt it kind of ridiculous for an individual to claim god doesnt exist all the while they probably subscribe to cable television and love VH1? |
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No. What are you talking about? |
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also i think it is dumb when atheists self-proclaim themselves publically like they should be famous for not believing in god theres an american comedian whose name i cant recall right now who, whenever hes in front of a bunch of people lets it all out about how its impossible for god to exist and it's like you kinda wonder why he doesnt tell jokes instead |
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i think mr dawkins rather fancies himself as god actually i mean he's got the look |
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"Let's now stop being so damned respectful!" |
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well to me its strange when someone believes something supernatural like god does not exist but they will acknowledge the existance of something ridiculous like VH1 or MTV ive sat in front of people say, like, "MAN! GOD CAN'T EXIST, DUDE! SERIOUSLY! LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE, I MEAN, DUDE! C'MON!" and then talk about reality tv shows. its confusing! |
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its george carlin. he is an atheist but it seems if he were given the opportunity to be God he would be the first to hand in his resume as a .pdf file |
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yes that too does baffle me timbers |
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Sorry, you've lost me. You're saying there isn't really a channel on TV called VH1 and all the viewers are just hallucinating James Blunt videos and "Behind the Music"? Why would anyone imagine that? |
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don't you dare carlin would eat you for breakfast as the pre-cereal appetiser |
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Well, to be fair, Dawkins is the chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, so his actual job is to promote science and be outspoken about it. |
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hah, woah, what? |
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dawkins is a great (and respected) scientist but unfortunately a terrible philosopher |
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i dont know exactly how my brain is configged, but yeah, that's how i see things. i can't handle how a person can say all-powerful, omnipotent beings are not real but they can turn around and say justin timberlake is |
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if i ever met dawkins i would ask him to prove to me that his existance is possible. same with carlin, etc. i'd ask them to prove to me they were real and then probably just stare at them and chew gum! |
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are you denying the existence of justin timberlake? i don't mind if you are. we can unimagine him away |
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well first you would need to define 'what is real' |
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our souls are older than the planet earth itself! |
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something that is real, i dont know. its pretty obvious when something is real. its pretty obvious also when something is not real. thats a tough question to answer |
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that supports my point tho; unless you can tell me what is real and what is not real i dont want to hear you saying god or clownfish or calcium allotropes or tv controllers are not real |
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and then there's the fact that nobody knows more than anyone else. so why raise above one another? LET US JOIN HANDS TOGETHER JOIN HANDS IN IGNORANCE IN IGNORANCE TOGETHER. FOREVER |
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Dawkins would dissect the question with razor like precision and complete control of all constituent words and effortlessly annihilate it. Look at his books, not the 'entertaining' public image produced by south park. He has some of the greatest understanding of the world how it truly is. |
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i think i'll let danni clear this one up ping! |
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It's easy to be seduced by Dawkins, because any sane person realises the concept of God in man's image is utterly ludicrous - but if you ever watch his programmes you will see he is as much wrapped up in his own beliefs as those he opposes and is therefore no different to any religious believer. To propagate a belief that god does not exist is just as stupid as propagating a belief that god does exist. The problem with the world is not beliefs, but human being's desire to coerce others into believing, which is exactly what Dawkins is doing. He's just a different brand of cigarettes. I was watching one of his programmes the other day where he was ridiculing religious believers for living in a fantasy world, before going on to say, "who needs fantasy, when you have the beautiful poetry of nature", well poetry IS fantasy! Poetry is an ideal, a concept, a philosophy. Nature is not interested in poetry, it's not interested in anything, it is what it is. So to look at life through a poetic lens is equally as deranged a fantasy as any other. |
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You all sound sooo clever... Fuck you |
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I think you might have misunderstood his intention |
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god and religion are two separate issues |
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dawkins just says that irrational beliefs are not harmless. |
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Ignore Dawkins and instead focus on , the 20th Century's greatest . |
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to clarify, my post was a response to , not the rude dude. |
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I wouldn't defend him unless you'd watched it. |
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fair enough. |
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You're reviewing the most entertaining form of information regarding this, a google video probably. His books are brilliantly written with a lot of fascinating analysis of arms races, replication, altruism, why things behave in certain ways such as ants behaving more like a single genetic being given their differing core of replication compared to ours, etc. with tons of off tangent brilliance, neat software examples of evolution. One books peripheral part on bat sonar alone is excellent. Great speculation on the origin of genetic replicators. Pretty much every page is elegantly crafted and he has a mastery of the english language using formidably precise and defined vocabulary to reduce seemingly difficult problems/arguments into their true retarded form. He's a master in pedagogy and I agree with whatever review said his writing makes the reader feel like a genius. The god stuff gets the most attention, predictably given religions memetic foothold. He saw religion as a brainwashing memetic illness plaguing humanity's children from an early age and made a decision to be a sort of activist against it. I guess he held people in higher regard than they deserved thinking replicating memes in humans can be battled and won. As soon as things like information storing devices (books etc) took off, humans branched off into quite different beings based on levels cultural learning (as opposed to genetic difference). Like a telephone system, adding more information to a brain increases connections exponentially so the learned can be a fuck of a lot smarter than the ignorant. He's quite learned but gets more attention because of his book memes than others I'd guess. |
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you look so clever... fuck you |
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YEAH! |
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