Re: The root of all evil? - Dawkins Documentary


Stanley Friesen wrote:
"Algis Kuliukas" <algis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This debate is really fascinating, folks, but could I ask what you
think about Richard Dawkins and his polemics about religion.

Art seems to think his provocative language puts him in the same boat
as some of the religious bigots, I disagree and think that it's
completely different, long overdue and justified.

Perhaps not the same boat, but it, at best, aggravates our current
problems. Much of the opposition to science from Fundamentalists comes
from their fear that science and faith are incompatible. To have a
famous science author such as Dawkins making exactly that claim just
makes them more determined than ever to "defeat" the evil "atheistic
scientists".

Well when religions teach children something that science has shown to
be false it is incompatible, isn't it? What form of fudge can get us
around that problem?

Any hope we have of quieting the issue down is to be found in convincing
them that science is *orthogonal* to science.

I don't see much quietening down resulting from passive atheism. I
think we have to publicly challenge some of these ideas, not to try to
change the minds of the extremists, but perhaps of the moderates. If
the moderates started to leave in their droves, the insitutions and the
extremists that parasatise on them would lose all their power and we'd
have a better world.

The peace of God be with you.

Stanley Friesen

Thank you, I'm sure you meant well, but I have to ask: Which god would
that be?

All the best to you too.

Algis Kuliukas

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