Richard Dawkins at the University of Oklahoma

posted on my blog:
http://toomanytribbles.blogspot.com/2009/03/richard-dawkins-at-university-of....

'This is Richard Dawkins' special introduction to his lecture at the University of Oklahoma on March 6th, 2009. See more about the events surrounding his visit here:

http://richarddawkins.net/article,3641,Oklahoma-legislator-proposes-resolutio...

Source:
http://richarddawkins.net/article,3646,n,n

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• richard dawkins
• evolution
• science
• religion
• oklahoma

[Desertphile]

"desertpiles, why did you take it to heart after i pointed out that you...."

Instead of just trying to insult me, if you spotted anything I said or wrote that is wrong, by all means please do tell me what the error(s) is/are so that I will not repeat my mistake in the future. I will very much appreciate it. Thank you.

[VelvetRagamuffin]

As one of Thomsen's constituents, I can unequivocally say that he does not speak for me. I was one of a 47% minority in the last election that voted for Starns. His margin of victory was only 714 votes which gives me hope.

[toomanytribbles]

i approved these final two comments by drbnine -- the last two from this person that i'll approve -- in order to show everyone how interested he/she really is in science. these final two comments reek of blind, enraged, anti-science dribble and dogma.

devoid of evidence or reason, he has fallen back to goddidit.

it answers nothing.

it's not even wrong.

how completely predictable and transparent.

[drbnine]

What TRULY sounds like "nonsense"?

Man was made in the image of an incredibly brilliant Supreme Being who created all things. His ultimate creation-man, with indescribable complexities beyond all other species.

Or, man is the product of morphing his way from the pond to the puddle to the shore to the dry ground. He has monkeys and apes in his family tree and lemurs too! No, wait. Science missed that one.

How could it? Science knows

MY NONSENSE? DRIBBLE? AN INSULT TO HUMAN INTELLIGENCE! BYE

[drbnine]

Evolution may jump into the race after it has begun, but science doesn't.

Evolution closes its eyes to how it started because it would come face to face with a GOD it has denied existed.

Science attempts to "create" other alternatives besides acknowledging Creationism. Science KNOWS all their explanations fail miserably. So they down play it.

You and other evolutionists choose to start at Chapter 2 and totally ignore or blow off The Genesis of Life and All Things.

IT IS YOUR ACHILLE"S HEAL

[toomanytribbles]

you mean, other people get tired of your nonsense, too? fancy that...

i'm interested in our origins, i'm interested in our evolution. i am simply able to discern what we do know and what we don't.

goodnight.

[drbnine]

toomanytribbles- Thank you for an enjoyable time of dialogue and verbal intercourse.

I certainly expected your last post as this is the same place-without exception- that EVERY evolutionist does the EXACT same thing.

You are well trained in the science community ...at dodging the MOST IMPORTANT AND CRITICAL QUESTION OF ALL.

You want me to believe you are indifferent or only "simply intrigued" in knowing the ORIGIN of all things, but consumed by the evolutionary process? I don't buy it.

[toomanytribbles]

part 3:

1. evolution concerns itself with the biological development of life once it has already started, and has nothing to say about how it all began.

2. i don't know how it all began, and neither do you. i have no problem with not knowing... i'm simply intrigued and would like to eventually find out.

now i'm finished with you -- i will not answer again. nothing here has been worth my time.

[toomanytribbles]

part 2:

the evolution of species is a well-established fact and not a belief system. i'm sorry you don't understand it but it's not my responsibility or desire to educate you. you want to stay ignorant? so be it. in other words, i don't care.

as for your silly final question,

[toomanytribbles]

part 1:

you might not be aware of this but the entire world is not where you happen to be. it's almost midnight here and i'm not going to stay up for this.

you are not 'searching', 'probing' or 'disecting' [sic]. you're spewing well-known and utterly mind-numbing creationist rubbish. i'm not interested in this -- my time is precious to me.

[drbnine]

"I will not continue ping-ponging...I have better things to do." Oh really? Isn't that the way truth is finally attained and realized? By searching, probing, exploring, disecting, analyzing? Are you afraid to bring your fragile belief system to the microscope of examination? Can evolution handle scrutiny.

I'll give you one last chance before I become bored...

Tell me how it all began. That is Question #1. You can't start evolution with #2at how it evolved if you can't tell me how it began.

[toomanytribbles]

please find the quote, in full context, and cite source... otherwise you're paraphrasing and interpreting.

as for me, i'd be very glad to see religion become a relic of the past.