The God Hypothesis

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Richard Dawkins: "The God Hypothesis" - Extract From "The God Delusion", Chapter II (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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[mikesomething]

religious cunts

[jantarbuba]

"Jealous, and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a vindictive bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic homophobic racist; infanticidal, genocidal, philicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."

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[Tapiola2007]

@bowiemott Dawkins doesn't tell people what to believe. He's an educater, firstly of science, but more broadly of rational thought. Arguing the case against god isn't remotely the same thing as preaching from the pulpit. There are no commandments, no customs, no damnation, no excommunication. People agree with what Dawkins and other atheists argue because of the force of the argument not fear of divine retribution. We can't all be orignal thinkers. Sometimes we need to listen to wiser heads.

[skywize]

The Our Lady Of Fatima bit was quite funny, lol! This guy really is brilliant.

[mechanicmike69]

@majorl311<-------------------­­­- You are such a fucking dick.

You pagan asshole. Mark this religious idiots posts as 'spam' he is a delusional fucking morn.

[topperheartramada]

@jantarbuba You just summed up the essence of the Bible and all three Abrahamic religions.

[therabbithole999]

@14SMjcil The faithful can be seen as having "tiny minds with tiny conclusions" also since there can be reasoned or hypothesized many other conclusions that differ from a single faith. Having a dogmatic assurance that your faith is correct is by definition closing off or denying potential realities. I disagree with his certainty that there is no higher being/consciousness but there are too many potentials to have faith in any one.

[therabbithole999]

@bowiemott Just because Dawkins may have convinced them, does not mean they worship him. An atheist comes to that realization not because someone told them so, it's because they reasoned it or heard someone reason it and agreed with them. The faith in religion is completely based in "someone tells you to".