On 31 May 2014 21:35, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
