Please listen to the video. Dawkins talks about several things including his admiration for Charles Darwin.
This sentence about Stephen J. Gould makes perfect sense to me. Any number of things could have prevented the development of our species. Also, we are lucky our lineage didn't die out during an African drought or for other reasons.
As the writer Scott Rosenberg put it, Professor Gould saw our species as “simply a tiny accident occurring on a minor side-branch of the evolutionary tree.”
This quote from Richard Dawkins I totally agree with.
“Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers,” he says. “It’s a sort of crime against childhood.”
And there's also this about Richard Dawkins. Victims of religious indoctrination have had the curiosity which comes naturally to young children sucked out of them.
Belief in the supernatural strikes him as incurious, which is perhaps the worst insult he can imagine.
Also this about Dawkins. A normal person doesn't have to be an expert about bullshit to know it's bullshit.
To suggest he study theology seems akin to suggesting he study fairies.
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