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Richard Dawkins’ Tips for Debating Creationists


Richard Dawkins has gone on the record as saying he would never debate Creationists because “they’ve won the moment you agree to have a debate at all. Because what they want is the oxygen of respectability.”
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1) Focus on the fossils and the cosmological evidence for the age of the universe:
2) Remember: No fossil has ever been found out of place:
3) The evidence for evolution is overwhelming:
4) The geographic distribution of species is exactly as we would predict through evolution:
5) Most working scientists accept evolution and a multi-billion-year-old universe:
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http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/01/18/richard-dawkins-tips-for-debating-creationists/
 
Who cares what Dawkins views are?

He's already proven himself to be too incompetent to conduct an intelligent debate on any topic other than how not to conduct a debate!

In my opinion, he's so far behind the times, he belongs with his precious dinosaurs!
 
If it had not been for the influence of the Christian values in western society, would Richard Dawkins have resorted to the laws of the jungle or survival of the fittest to get his views across?
 
Dawkins is an "intelligent idiot".
Creation and evolution work conjointly.
Things are created, then they evolve.
The evidence is all around us.
Why not with life?
 
It's a toss up between windfarms and homosexuality as to which causes more harm to society :D

The UK Independence Party has suspended a councillor who claimed recent floods were the result of the British government's decision to legalise gay marriage.

David Silvester claimed the country had been "beset by storms" since the passage of the new law on gay marriage because David Cameron had acted "arrogantly against the Gospel".

He said the new law, paving the way for the first gay marriages in Britain this spring, was the latest mistake which would anger God - following on from abortion laws, which he likened to the Holocaust.

In the radio interview, which followed his initial claims about the link between flooding and gay marriage in a letter to the Henley Standard, Mr Silvester said: "I don't have a problem with gay people.

"I believe as a Christian I should love gay people and indeed, I do. My prayer for them is they will be healed."

"One, for example, is the abortion laws in which something like six million children, as many as the people killed by the Nazis in the death camps, have been killed as a result of the abortion laws.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/uk-part...ay-marriage-20140120-hv956.html#ixzz2qtH3GKzf
 
bellenuit said:
Nigerian Pastor Tries To Walk On Water Like Jesus, Then Drowns In Front Of His Congregation

http://www.reportghananews.com/nige...sus-then-drowns-in-front-of-his-congregation/
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LOL....Thinking he could walk on water without coming to any harm! And that other bloke who thought he could step into a pen full of lions without coming to grief!
Someone should have told these silly characters that just because something is written in a book, that doesn’t necessarily make it true. Quite a few people probably did in fact tell them that, but were ignored.
Ah well – live and learn. Or die and learn in the case of those two blokes!

It's a shame that religion attracts a percentge of complete nutters - some of the ridiculous things done in the name of religion just about beggar belief.

Having said that, I've seen some good things done in the name of religion too.
 
Makes you think.

If there was a God who created this incomprehensibly vast universe, how come, apart from some statements in Genesis regarding the creation of the heavens and the earth, that this God, as he was revealed to us in the Holy Books, confined himself to this small region ........


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bellenuit said:
Makes you think.

If there was a God who created this incomprehensibly vast universe, how come, apart from some statements in Genesis regarding the creation of the heavens and the earth, that this God, as he was revealed to us in the Holy Books, confined himself to this small region ........


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It is ironic that the three religions spawned in that little circle claim to share the same God, and yet, one of them can commit horrendous atrocities in the name of God, against the "infidels", while shouting "Allāhu Akbar".:screwy:
 
Humanity Is Becoming Increasingly Less Violent, with One Exception

Wherever you look in the world, there continues to be religious motivated violence. From the fighting that has plagued Palestine for the past six decades (Jews vs. Muslims), to the dispute over Kashmir (Muslims vs. Hindus). Also, there’s Nigeria (Muslims vs. Christians), Philippines (Muslims vs. Christians), Iraq (Sunni Muslims vs. Shiite), Sudan (Muslims vs. Christians), Sri Lanka (Sinhalese Buddhists vs. Tamil Hindus), and the Caucasus region (Orthodox Russians vs. Chechen Muslims).

While most of the above examples have basis in disputes over land and political control, it’s religious belief that shapes the terms and the willingness of one party to negotiate with the other. War, by definition, suggests an all-or nothing conflict to determine a dispute against an enemy one believes in hell-bent on our destruction, and therefore cannot be placated via diplomatic means. In other words, war and violence becomes an excuse for not finding compromise. Religion provides the excuse to be violent.
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http://www.alternet.org/belief/humanity-becoming-increasingly-less-violent-one-exception-religious-violence?page=0%2C1

And original paper
http://www.pewforum.org/2014/01/14/religious-hostilities-reach-six-year-high/
 
Full Show: Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science, Religion and the Universe

[video=vimeo;84349929]http://vimeo.com/84349929#embed[/video]
 
Is Religion crazy?

Yes


2002 Mecca girls' school fire

On March 11, 2002, a fire at a girls' school in Mecca, Saudi Arabia killed fifteen people, all young girls. The event was especially notable due to complaints that Saudi Arabia's "religious police" (aka the Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice) stopped schoolgirls from leaving the burning building and hindered rescue workers because the girls were not wearing correct Islamic dress.[1] As Hanny Megally, Executive Director of the Middle East and North Africa division of Human Rights Watch put it, "Women and girls may have died unnecessarily because of extreme interpretations of the Islamic dress code. State authorities with direct and indirect responsibility for this tragedy must be held accountable."[2]
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Mecca_girls%27_school_fire
 
Religious quote of the day.......’God has to be the best inventor of all time - he took a rib from Adam and made a loudspeaker!’
 
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