On 31 May 2014 21:35, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > To oppose religion and science transforms science into a religion. On the > contrary, non confessional theology has to come back in the academy, that's > all. The problem is not religion, it is the authoritative arguments. Some > atheists club are worst than catholics is the way they dismiss evidences. > They confirmed my felling that atheism is just, like Christianism, a > variant of the Aristotelian theology. >
I think Dawkins is talking basically about authoritative arguments. He clearly has in mind the insistence that "god did it", which stops people being able to think of alternative explanations. I agree with him on this, even if I am personally agnostic and not a militant atheist - god is not an explanation, it merely pushes the question back a step. Q Why is there something rather than nothing? A Because god made the world. Q So why is there god rather than nothing? A Don't blaspheme! (or whatever) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
