RDFRS US:
The mission of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science is to support scientific education, critical thinking and evidence-based understanding of the natural world in the quest to overcome religious fundamentalism, superstition, intolerance and suffering.
The Magic of Reality
for the iPad
Sean Faircloth:
Attack of the Theocrats!
This is a straw man.
One can believe in God and that he, in very special circumstances, can "enter history" and intervene by overcoming natural laws(or enable natural laws that are unknown to man), and still maintain that, 99,9999999% of the time, physical laws work as expected and that the world was created and still operates through them.
You can make up as many rules and blanket statements as you like, such as "if you're a theist you can't use logical arguments of physical evidence for your position", that doesn't make them true or valid. Fact is, most theists believe miracles are one-in-a-billion events and it doesn't stop them from becoming excellent doctors, mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers, physicists or what have you.
Your thoughts are utterly simplistic and your conclusions naive. As I said: You put me in a spot in an arbitrary spectrum, and think from there on you know what my position ought to be in all subjects, and what I have "the right" to say or not. Sorry, but the world and human beings are more complex than this. What's really funny, is that you "reject" a possible ally in all sorts of very important real-world matters, because...I don't have "the right" to support the...correct position! As if all my knowledge comes from the Bible, or as if a theist is all I am. Seems to me you care more about the controversy and lumping people into convenient categories than the actual issues here.
Permalink Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:22:52 UTC | #904083