Richard Dawkins talking about a Creator

by FusionTheism 89 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  FusionTheism

  Jonathan,

  "Everything you've said"??

  I quoted Richard Dawkins and posted a video of Richard Dawkins?

  Where did I say anything?
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  freemindfade

  No conspiracy, I asked you a question @$$hat. Lol. No conspiracy? I guess you are just a Dawkins fan then.

  I retract any nice thing I said earlier. People who belief in god are dumb. Lucky for them I won't kill them for not believing my way, just laugh at their madness. You are all very cute.

  On with godlessness infedels!
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  Viviane

  I quoted Richard Dawkins and posted a video of Richard Dawkins?
  Where did I say anything?

  Well, first you said you had not written commentary and then you did and now we don't know.

  The point is, we've got some trouble with your veracity. We need tor straighten that out.
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  Hold Me-Thrill Me

  I have one sincere question here and it is by no means meant to be funny, contradictory or offensive. I'm just asking a sincere direct question and would appreciate a direct answer.

  If someone were to ask: Is Richard Dawkins an agnostic or an atheist? How would one respond?

  And please, friends, do not direct me to a book. Just a simple answer would suffice and I will go my way off this thread.

  Thanks
  
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  TheWonderofYou

  What are they talking about?
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  cofty

  If someone were to ask: Is Richard Dawkins an agnostic or an atheist? How would one respond? - Frank

  
  It depends on how pedantic the audience is. Technically if you can't prove something 100% then it's strictly true that you must be agnostic about it. But that doesn't mean you are 50:50. If you are 99.9999% certain about something then STRICTLY SPEAKING you are agnostic.

  Proof belongs to mathematicians. In normal life we make judgements based on the balance of evidence. On that basis he more commonly self-identifies as an atheist.

  Here are his own words on the topic verbatim...
  

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  The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is infinite. If you want to believe in a particular one of them -- teapots, unicorns, or tooth fairies, Thor or Yahweh -- the onus is on you to say why you believe in it. The onus is not on the rest of us to say why we do not. We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.
  

  -- Richard Dawkins, Free Inquiry,Summer, 2002
  
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  Viviane

  If someone were to ask: Is Richard Dawkins an agnostic or an atheist? How would one respond?
  And please, friends, do not direct me to a book. Just a simple answer would suffice and I will go my way off this thread.

  Ask Richard Dawkins. Or read a book.
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  cofty

  Personally I never use the word agnostic to describe my beliefs. I am an atheist and an anti-theist.

  Debating whether or not there is a god is impossible until we define what we mean by god.

  The god of christian theism does not exist. He is a logical impossibility and many of the claims of theism are contradicted by facts about reality. The same goes for every other god who is, or ever has been, worshipped.

  If by god we mean some vague, undefined, impersonal first-cause then I wouldn't bother to debate it. It's irrelevant.
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  Hold Me-Thrill Me

  Thanks for the reply, Cofty.

  I appreciate it.
  
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  freemindfade

  Best description to FT's nonsense thus far cofty

  thank you