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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"Jason Spaceman" |
| Date: |
20 Oct 2006 08:53:29 PM |
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Dawkins: On The God Delusion |
From the article:
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Does Bush check the Rapture Index daily, as Reagan did his stars? We don't
know, but would anyone be surprised?
My scientific colleagues have additional reasons to declare emergency.
Ignorant and absolutist attacks on stem cell research are just the tip of
an iceberg. What we have here is nothing less than a global assault on
rationality, and the Enlightenment values that inspired the founding of
this first and greatest of secular republics. Science education - and hence
the whole future of science in this country - is under threat. Temporarily
beaten back in a Pennsylvania court, the 'breathtaking inanity' (Judge John
Jones's immortal phrase) of 'intelligent design' continually flares up in
local bush-fires. Dowsing them is a time-consuming but important
responsibility, and scientists are finally being jolted out of their
complacency. For years they quietly got on with their science, lamentably
underestimating the creationists who, being neither competent nor
interested in science, attended to the serious political business of
subverting local school boards. Scientists, and intellectuals generally,
are now waking up to the threat from the American Taliban.
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Read it at
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-dawkins/on-the-god-delusioni_b_32164.html
J. Spaceman
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| User: "Robert Carnegie" |
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| Title: Re: Dawkins: On The God Delusion |
21 Oct 2006 06:43:16 PM |
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Jason Spaceman wrote:
From the article:
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Does Bush check the Rapture Index daily, as Reagan did his stars? We don't
know, but would anyone be surprised?
Speaking for talk.origins, this isn't really about evolution or
anything. It's about the silly fight with intelligent design.
I didn't know you could spell "dowse" that way in that meaning, and now
I do.
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