Hi Zone,
You may have missed my post so I thought I’d take a moment, correct a typo that may have confused my meaning, and post it again.
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he sure invested a lifetime getting all bothered about something that summed up to ZERO for him.
But, you see, it doesn't sum up to zero for him. At every step creationists are attacking evolution and attempting to prevent it from being taught; and what is Dawkins? He is a teacher of evolutionary biology. This issue of God affects him directly.
Oh, and he’s not invested his life time into attacking belief in God. He’s written only one book on the subject and about five on evolution. Since about age 15 he’s spent most of his intellectual resources studying and researching evolution. Not till his 50s did he begin addressing the issues surrounding religion. I think he became interested in 1995 when he was appointed
Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University; a position he has only recently retired from. This role, in the light of creationism, made God his business.
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zone said:
and he never proved a thing.
As a devout Christian, that’s what you might expect, but I’ve talked with people on-line who were pushed into atheism by reading The God Delusion, and two or three years back I saw a thread asking anyone who’d become an atheist from reading Dawkins’ book to respond. I was surprised at the number who owed their atheism to Dawkins.
PS, I’ve re-posted our earlier discussion because I was hoping for some feedback. Have I satisfactorily answered you’re objections?