http://acandystore.org/books/archives/2006/07/22/dawkins-on-faith Overheard in a library Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:11:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 http://acandystore.org/books/archives/2006/07/22/dawkins-on-faith#comment-6 Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:00:02 +0000 http://acandystore.org/books/archives/2006/07/22/dawkins-on-faith#comment-6 "It is this that makes the often-parroted claim that ‘evolution itself is a matter of faith’ so silly. People believe in evolution not because they arbitrarily want to believe it but because of overwhelming, publicly available evidence." The leap where Dawkins and the faithful diverge is deeper than Dawkins realizes (or perhaps admits). Before you start counting evidence, you have to decide if you /want/ to count evidence, or if you'd rather pay attention to a certain set of doctrinal revelations. Besides, if you want evidence, consider that Catholics have a 2,000-year history of doing pretty well, whereas scientists as we know them have only been around since about the 1600s. (YES I do enjoy playing Devil's advocate sometimes.) Also, "memoid" sucks, use "kamikaze". “It is this that makes the often-parroted claim that ‘evolution itself is a matter of faith’ so silly. People believe in evolution not because they arbitrarily want to believe it but because of overwhelming, publicly available evidence.” The leap where Dawkins and the faithful diverge is deeper than Dawkins realizes (or perhaps admits). Before you start counting evidence, you have to decide if you /want/ to count evidence, or if you’d rather pay attention to a certain set of doctrinal revelations. Besides, if you want evidence, consider that Catholics have a 2,000-year history of doing pretty well, whereas scientists as we know them have only been around since about the 1600s. (YES I do enjoy playing Devil’s advocate sometimes.) Also, “memoid” sucks, use “kamikaze”.

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