Father George Coyne Interview (1/7) - Richard Dawkins

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[UltimateTomato]

Probably the most intelligent and reasonable religious representative i've heard. I wonder how he can be that clever and still be a believer.

[coldflame333]

For those of you who are making personal jibes and judgemental comments. Where is the love?

Can we not celebrate a conversation between two very intelligent men, each of whom are coming from a respectable perspective of their own, uniquely shaped by their own life experiences and observations?

[bestvalue]

Yes, evolution is the best SCIENTIFIC explanation. Notice that that does not mean it is true. Scientists believed for 2,000 that big rocks fall faster than little rocks until Galileo (a Christian and young earth creationist) proved them wrong.

[ADDISON396]

this guy sounded allright untill 9mins when he tried to bring in "evidence"... must have taken an arrow to the knee off camera :)

(LIKE/THUMBS UP :D)

[DiomedesStrosMkai]

@TheAllien111 (cont'd) that atheism is somehow morally inferior because of Stalin's actions, because what Stalin did in no way represents the beliefs or the actions of atheists in general! The whole idea behind this is that generalizations are bad. It's arbitrary to associate the actions of a group of people as the necessary result of a belief system the claim to hold. It's extremism on the other end of things.

[DiomedesStrosMkai]

@TheAllien111 It's not crude or judgmental to call a religious person stupid in the abstract, but to call them stupid *because* they are religious is. Making the argument that the damage it has done necessitates such mockery is pretty ignorant -- after all, Stalin was an atheist, and he did far more damage in one generation than Christianity could over centuries. But it's be equally ignorant to make the argument that atheism (read con't please!)

[DiomedesStrosMkai]

@UltimateTomato I think persecution is wrong on any level, irrespective of past deeds. Furthermore, science and religion are completely separate.. The truth of the matter is there will never be a canon-based reason to believe in any religion, because religion is not, and never will be, based on empirical fact. People believe in God based on a feeling of a personal relationship with whatever they conceive him to be -- on an emotional, not rational, level.

[blindedby2monkeys]

i though god believers were retarded,but turns out it was that good at seeming learned witch- wendy wright

[ivaflimkien]

@UltimateTomato I never insulted you, nor am I so devoid of life as to wish to 'persecute' (worra JOKE) anti Christian hate exponents.

Our glorious religion started from the torture of God Himself and His death, and His first supporters made their voice heard through their blood-every apostle, most of the early popes and bishops, and indeed the tens of thousands of martyrs (maybe hundreds of thousands by now, when you look at the Christians still being killed in Iraq and Egypt).

[TheAllien111]

Maybe this priest is "smart" but a disgrace to the scientist title. Never do the mistake to mix intelligence of any sort with religion, it does not connect.

Its not judgmental nor crude to call religious people dumb, any other belief with such claims would be characterized as stupidity. Religion does NOT have exclusive rights outside of definitions.

The damage it have done to the world in evolving and morals actually requires it to be stomped on repeatedly till people are humiliated out of it.

[UltimateTomato]

@ivaflimkien Your insults don't make any sense. I like to ask questions and learn the answers. Religion has a long history of suppressing knowledge.

And don't give me the poor Christian persecution routine, that's a small taste of their own medicine.

There is nothing extreme nor radical about demanding evidence for the extraordinary supernatural claims of religion.

[UltimateTomato]

@link0zeldarulz89 Not stupid but perhaps scientifically illiterate or not prone to critical thinking