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Article #16279Re: Gisse puts foot in mouth, and perhaps elsewhere (was Re: Pound Rebka
From: Eric Gisse
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:44
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:44
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On Feb 1, 9:08 am, nonsense <nonse...@unsettled.com> wrote: > Eric Gisse wrote: > > On Jan 31, 2:14 pm, "Max Keon" <maxk...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > deep snip > > >>Richard Dawkins, author of "Root of all evil" made the claim that > >>militant faith is again on the march despite the progress of > >>science. Perhaps that wouldn't be the case if science was raised > >>above the sea of indoctrinated realities, to take its rightful > >>place in the world as the champion of truth. > > It only appears as "militant faith" to someone who is unwilling and > > unable to understand the many explanations, links, and books > > referenced to him. > > Mr. Gisse: > > You need to stop posting for a while. You're so immersed > in what you think you're trying to achieve that you've > forgotten to read what your correspondent is writing, > or even worse, ignoring it altogether. Hint: seeing > everything through a haze of red is a *bad thing*. > > Let's talk about Dawkins for just a moment. > > Here's the opening paragraph to the Wikipedia article > about him: > > "Clinton Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941) is a > British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular > science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for > the Public Understanding of Science at the University > of Oxford.[1]" > > I hope there's no need to beat up on you any more > for this sort of thing. I'm reasonably sure that Dawkins was talking about creationists, who tend to make the same arguments about evolution that folks on here use against modern physics. The "militant faith" likely refers to those same people - but since there is absolutely no context, I can't be sure. I don't even see why you felt you had to reply.
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