Richard Dawkins Q&A Session "God Delusion"

Why did he make us mammals or even vertebrates?

Regardless of our ultimate origin, one can't ignore the fact that we fit in to the taxonomic description of a primate. It's just a label that we have given a set of features occurring in similar species.

So you don't have to agree with evolution to agree with taxonomy. Though I think it's ignorant not to at least consider that the similarities is due to a common ancestor.

Sorry for the bad English. Scientific terms are hard to translate.

Evolution is a fact. Even the Pope believes this. Dawkin's absurd argument is that evolution is true therefore the universe caused itself to come into being. Evolution is Dawkin's strawman for Theism and his excuse for bigotry and hate speech against anyone with philosophical views other than his own. Dawkins isn't even a Scientist. He got an advanced degree in biology and went straight into writing "great scientist condescends to masses" books.

Oh. Then I agree with you except that I'm not willing to go as far as to attack Dawkins. I don't think he's an atheist because there's scientific explanations, but rather because there's a lack of evidence for a god. Something I see as reasonable.

You may have any view of the universe as you like, but if you want be taken seriously then you better have the evidence to back it up.

Dawkins cannot hate a god which does not exist. He speaks truthfully and provides facts. Nor does he demand that people become his followers or their souls will burn in hellfire for all eternity. Such threats should not be confused for love. That's religious doctrine.

If the 10 Commandments are good enough for any man to live by, then why did the Catholic Tony Blair implement a few hundred extra laws? Why does he think he knows better than his God? Does he think God didn't go far enough and He [Blair] knows better?
Hypocrites, every last one of them.

There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. They said "Let us pray," and we dutifully shut our eyes. When we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible. ~Desmond M. Tutu

Such "missionaries" should be avoided like the plague so this sinsiter and dangerous dogma can finally die out.

Good point. Of course, Desmond Tutu is a great Christian leader who exemplifies how Jesus wants us to live together and who lives his life according to the teachings of the Bible, knowing that God is love.

Again mate well fucking said!!

here's another problem. If God is omniscient, then we're destined to follow a predetermined path. But then how can God send you to heaven/ hell if it was your DESTINY to be good or bad? On the other hand, if we do have free will then god cannot know the future and so is not omniscient. From this we can darw 2 conclusions. 1) If God exists he is a liar
2) the logical contadictions are strong evidence against the existence of god

In the bible god says he's omniscient & omnipotent, but as Dawkins points out there's a contradiction. If God is omniscient then he knows what he'll do in the future, but if that's the case he can't change his mind so he's not ominpotent. But if he can change his mind, then he's not omniscient. Either way God loses