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<blockquote data-quote="Mountainmike" data-source="post: 71559744" data-attributes="member: 392252"><p>I should not have put the last para in, because I was more interested in reactions to whether Dawkins rabid ranting deserves a platform.</p><p></p><p>But as for your comment:</p><p></p><p>He leaves science (and critical thinking) at the door of the lab, when he goes home to write his books, using every type of logical fallacy there is.</p><p></p><p>He has also repeated sagans folly : "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" which is all about subjectivity , which is the very antithesis of science. All claims need the same standard of evidence , including Dawkins own fantasies. So he is clearly not a scientist. Thosewho seek roles in "public understanding of science" are generally those who want to abuse that platform to pronounce their own beliefs. Take his silly book "magic of reality". Any student of logic can rip it to shreds.</p><p></p><p>Worse - A lot of his pronouncements are on science he doesnt even understand (take quantum chemistry) - yet his followers hang on his every word. Like dawkins - they are more interested in trying to justify an apriori conclusion, rather than discover the truth. Not science.</p><p></p><p>Reality is Dawkins is the advocate a thinking atheist would rather not have!</p><p></p><p>But I really am more interested on peoples views on whether he should have been denied a platform - I do not think it should be denied, however much I dislike his views and his abuse of position of authority.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mountainmike, post: 71559744, member: 392252"] I should not have put the last para in, because I was more interested in reactions to whether Dawkins rabid ranting deserves a platform. But as for your comment: He leaves science (and critical thinking) at the door of the lab, when he goes home to write his books, using every type of logical fallacy there is. He has also repeated sagans folly : "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" which is all about subjectivity , which is the very antithesis of science. All claims need the same standard of evidence , including Dawkins own fantasies. So he is clearly not a scientist. Thosewho seek roles in "public understanding of science" are generally those who want to abuse that platform to pronounce their own beliefs. Take his silly book "magic of reality". Any student of logic can rip it to shreds. Worse - A lot of his pronouncements are on science he doesnt even understand (take quantum chemistry) - yet his followers hang on his every word. Like dawkins - they are more interested in trying to justify an apriori conclusion, rather than discover the truth. Not science. Reality is Dawkins is the advocate a thinking atheist would rather not have! But I really am more interested on peoples views on whether he should have been denied a platform - I do not think it should be denied, however much I dislike his views and his abuse of position of authority. [/QUOTE]
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