Chula Vista

Nah, he's a dick. Too extreme and does more harm than good for the atheist cause.

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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

John Wilkes Booth

God clearly loves me the most

GuD

I don't believe in the possibility of any thus far conceptualized version of God. Outside of religion or whatever else, maybe. But it's not my concern. I do what I do to get by and have fun on the way.

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Mondo Bungle

God's whatever you put your faith in.

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GuD

Marijuana and Pinots?

Whodduhthunkit.

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I spit bullets in my feet
Every time I speak
So I write instead
And still people want me dead
~msc

Mondo Bungle

if that's what you want

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EPOCH6

Dawkins is a stubborn old bastard no doubt, but I can never convince myself to truly dislike him. He's got this cranky old bastard charm to him.

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grindy

I often heard this opinion, but I never read or heard any real examples.
Could you provide any?
I've never read any of his books, but I've read summaries and his points seemed pretty intelligent and well thought out.

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EPOCH6

I don't think I could give you an immediate example, it's more so a slow build of snide remarks he makes during interviews and in documentaries, the more you listen to him the clearer it becomes that he's very easily frustrated and has a serious axe to grind with religious groups, especially religious groups involved in education. He has very little patience for loaded questions and frequently calls out interviewers that are wasting his time, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, it just really alienates the audience he's trying to speak to. I still love watching him do his thing, if only to watch him stir **** and piss people off, but besides being a very intelligent scientist and a pretty damn good writer, he's quite poor at communicating to the other team compared to others in the game (most notably Neil Tyson).

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Chula Vista

^^^^

Thanks EPOCH. Couldn't have said it any better.

There's something to be said of a faith in a God. It's not a bad thing in an of itself. There are those that use faith within their life in awesome ways. Good on them. Makes people feel better.

Dawkins kinda ****s on that at times.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”