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# oh
extreme 'scientists' like Dawkins are pretty much the same as extreme religious types.

Probe a little and the theories tend to be equally flawed.

EDIT: Why couldn't I think of the word philosophy? Ta Felix.
(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Mon 4 Dec 2006, 17:07, archived)
# *looks at you funny*
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Mon 4 Dec 2006, 17:09, archived)
# I felt the need to say scientist in quotes
when philosopher would have worked better.
(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Mon 4 Dec 2006, 17:11, archived)
# I'm aware of the somewhat depressing shrillness of proselytising atheists.
But that's not typically due to using weak arguments. It's more to do with the failure to realise that they're attempting to saw through people's psychological crutches, and that very
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Mon 4 Dec 2006, 17:17, archived)
# Oh Felix
you're so erudite! *swoons*
(I helped save b3ta! in vino veritas, Mon 4 Dec 2006, 17:22, archived)
# Pfft. My post was cut off at the word "very", but that doesn't seem to bother you.
It was something about ... very strident attacks by evangelistic atheists being pointless, but The God Delusion seeming to have some positive effect in comparison.

I have to go now, anyway. Heh.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Mon 4 Dec 2006, 17:26, archived)
# BUT HE DIDN'T FINISH!
very what??
(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Mon 4 Dec 2006, 17:26, archived)
# I know
but I imagined the rest. And it was good. SEXY good.
(I helped save b3ta! in vino veritas, Mon 4 Dec 2006, 17:29, archived)
# Yep.
Exactly.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan est in horto, sedet, Mon 4 Dec 2006, 17:09, archived)
# Dawkins isn't just a scientist
He's a scienceist.

I respect him for his work on evolutionary biology, but he should stick to what he's good at. Going after religion in general is at best psychology (not his field of expertise) and at worst bigotry.

For the record, I think that "Intelligent Design" is a load of crap, and Darwin's description of evolution is the only thing that really fits the facts.
(I helped save b3ta! Albert the Mildly Deranged purveyors of nothing much since a year or two ago, Mon 4 Dec 2006, 17:13, archived)
# Meh.
I reckon Darwinian evolution is on it's way out. I think it's, at best, a decent rule of thumb (like the sultana pudding model of atomics or the 2,8,8,8 etc. electron shell theory).

I have no idea how it really works though. I'm more of a chemist than a biologist.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan est in horto, sedet, Mon 4 Dec 2006, 17:17, archived)