Disclaimer: In neither video does the subject turn towards anti-religion. He actually says in the beginning that he has "done that book and got the T-shirt".
I have been saying for years that there is no difference between a creationist and a holocaust denier and since being here I have even found a few who reject both.
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War is God's was of teaching Americans geography.
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Ehhh...personally I think he should stick to his languages analogy. It's a better analogy and makes the point without running the same risk of alienating people further.
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I'm of the general opinion that Dawkins is overly blunt and kind of a jerk. But he's an overly blunt jerk that I agree with.
True enough... but I agree he makes a very good point in the video.
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Can't Dawkins think of anything original to say? This poorly made analogy had already been proposed in Michael Shermer's Why People Believe Weird Things.
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Can't Dawkins think of anything original to say? This poorly made analogy had already been proposed in Michael Shermer's Why People Believe Weird Things.
Tell us why you think it is a poor analogy.
__________________ “The biblical story of the perfect and finished creation from which human beings fell into sin is pre-Darwinian mythology and post-Darwinian nonsense." -Bishop John Shelby Spong
"It is not the obligation of the State to reconcile various faiths with reality. Do it yourself." -Atomweaver
"We have designed our civilization based on science and technology and at the same time arranged things so that almost no one understands anything at all about science and technology. This is a clear prescription for disaster."
- Carl Sagan (Demon Haunted World)
Because it's paradoxically ironic in light of the fact that most Holocaust deniers (erm, Bobby Fischer was one) usually equate the Holocaust with creationism itself, seeing them both as Jewish religious mythologies. Moreover, there are no creationists in jail because of their views about biology.
Incidentally, there's far more documented evidence for the Holocaust than for macroevolution:
Goebbels diaries, March 27, 1942
Beginning with Lublin, the Jews in the General Government are now being evacuated eastward. The procedure is a pretty barbaric one and not to be described here more definitely. Not much will remain of the Jews. On the whole it can be said that about 60 per cent of them will have to be liquidated whereas only about 40 per cent can be used for forced labour.
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