Richard Dawkins: The Changing Moral Zeitgeist (1/2)

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Richard Dawkins: The Good Book And The Changing Moral Zeitgeist. An extract from chapter VII of "The God Delusion" (1/2) - Richard Dawkins @ Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia; October 23, 2006.

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Richard Dawkins is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He was voted Britain's leading public intellectual by readers of Prospect magazine and was named one of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People" for 2007.

Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene", which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term "meme". He is a prominent critic of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book "The Blind Watchmaker", he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics.

Richard Dawkins is an atheist, secular humanist, sceptic, scientific rationalist, and supporter of the Brights movement. In his 2006 book "The God Delusion", he contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that faith qualifies as a delusion − as a fixed false belief.

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[Deshara218]

Exactly. He has created a system knowing that there will be hundreds of other religions with exactly the same amount of proof (none) behind them that all claim to be real, knowing that because of this, millions will be eternally punished. Your god is responsible for every moment of suffering any human being has, whether or not he gave us the illusion of choice, because the right choice is non-beleif until given proof.

Faith is ignorance, and can't, by definition, be defended.

[Deshara218]

Exept for the hundreds of millions who he's banished to Hell to be punished forever.

[TheFlashandFriends]

@Deshara218 you're funny

[JamesHolman1000]

@Deshara218 The Bible says that God weeps for his creations. He wants everyone to go to Heaven. There Bible is a very scientifically accurate book. Look up the evidence. God bless you.

[jackanoryjames]

Chapter seven has got to be (for me at-least) the most thought provoking chapter in his book...

Truly excellent...

[markusboyd3]

Join the zeitgeist movement if you are sick of bigotry, corruption, and debt!!!

[FranciscoKGuerreiro]

Let´s go dawkins...free thinking society...

[paolo27th]

Wait, what did she do for 2 months in the mountains?

[JKeats82]

HEAVENS NO!

Jesus may very well have been real! But could he have been a simple MAN, a human, not the son of God? Could not myth or legend or the human tendancy to glorify individuals beyond the scope of their actual persons' be the root of Jesuss' fame?

Jesus could be, and most likely is, a simple ideological construct of the best traits of humanity; mean't to inspire and provide direction for people. A very simple comparison could be the mythology of Santa Claus, to inspire goodness.