A pretty good secular article on Dawkins. I found much of it funny. And highlighted some parts. But it is also sad to me to see a lost soul become so arrogant and bitter and hardened. Like his dead crony Christopher Hitchens. Not much different from Saul of Tarsus though. With God all things are possible, and we do not hate our enemies but eagerly wait for all to come to repentance. This is Dawkins: a figure of mockery, a man so convinced that he possesses God-like powers of omniscience that he can’t understand why everyone’s getting angry at him for pointing out the obvious. Why won’t we all just learn how to think ...Dawkins made the transition from lauded science communicator to old man who shouts at clouds, it’s hard for me to understand why anyone continues to listen to him about anything. Dawkins has been arrogant for years, a man so convinced of his intellectual superiority that he believes the one domain in which he happens to be an expert, science, is the only legitimate way of acquiring or assessing knowledge. You don’t have to be religious to find this level of hubris baffling. In his review of The God Delusion, Terry Eagleton remarks: Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology. Dawkins’ narrowmindedness, his unshakeable belief that the entire history of human intellectual achievement was just a prelude to the codification of scientific inquiry, leads him to dismiss the insights offered not only by theology, but philosophy, history and art as well. If he can’t see it, then it doesn’t exist, and anyone trying to describe it to him is delusional and possibly dangerous.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 23:42:58 +0000
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