Monday, September 10, 2007
Dawkins and his book The God Delusion
I start getting tired of constant creating accounts in order to be able to write some comments on somebody’s texts. So, I just put the link here where I found some criticism of the book “The God Delusion”, written by Dawkins, that is severely criticized especially in the USA.
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1189355192.shtml
Whatever against Dawkins I read, I must laugh about. Dawkins is one of the smartest men on this planet nowadays. Mostly people who try to criticize him, usually only feel being offended, as they were taught something else and they BELIEVE this something else. But there is no scientific evidence proving existence of God. Scientific evidence means one must be able to repeat the experiment hundred times and always get the same result. We have never had this in religion. Just recall the history what religion is about: scientists were burned when they came with a new idea, now these people do not have the power of burning such man like Dawkins, but the FIGHT against such men is a constant battle waged by people on lower level. What I mean here is hierarchy in human society. No one likes to be down or having the feeling of being pushed down. When somebody was taught to believe in God and now somebody else writes that all people who believe in God have problems with their logical thinking, these people then feel offended, being pushed down and so they fight back, using whatever means they can find, even a lie. Don’t forget that these people were able to kill just only because of different idea, and they killed in the name of God. Well, well, isn’t it somewhat strange?
My simple advice would be: don’t fight Dawkins and his ideas, do much better thing: try to understand, study and se for yourself. Sciences needed to understand Dawkins are many. Here only a short list : biology, memetics, semiotics, linguistics, ethology, evolutionary psychology, sociology, neurology, normal psychology, quantum mechanics, physics, chemistry, genetics, epigenetics, mathematics, statistics and many others………..when you have mastered them all and you still believe in God then I can tell you the following:
Son being a communist and father capitalist some 50 years ago in the USA, father said to his son: ”If somebody doesn’t believe in communism and he is in his 20´s, then there is something wrong with his heart, if he still believes in communism in his 30´s, then there is something wrong with his head.”
In order to understand this fully you need to know what amygdala is and the limbic system, what functions they have as opposed to frontal cortex, and how they influence us.
It is difficult to understand what Dawkins says for a simple reason, other people know much less and their ability to think has also not properly developed. So go and study, then you will understand, understand the difference between science and belief, they are not the same. It makes me sad when I still read texts that reveal how right I am about their ability to think strictly logical at cognitive level and not at emotional level guided by their feeling of being offended.
When you look properly that is exactly what these people say and write here, they feel offended, offended by truth. Funny people, or maybe normal, depends how we take it.
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1189355192.shtml
Whatever against Dawkins I read, I must laugh about. Dawkins is one of the smartest men on this planet nowadays. Mostly people who try to criticize him, usually only feel being offended, as they were taught something else and they BELIEVE this something else. But there is no scientific evidence proving existence of God. Scientific evidence means one must be able to repeat the experiment hundred times and always get the same result. We have never had this in religion. Just recall the history what religion is about: scientists were burned when they came with a new idea, now these people do not have the power of burning such man like Dawkins, but the FIGHT against such men is a constant battle waged by people on lower level. What I mean here is hierarchy in human society. No one likes to be down or having the feeling of being pushed down. When somebody was taught to believe in God and now somebody else writes that all people who believe in God have problems with their logical thinking, these people then feel offended, being pushed down and so they fight back, using whatever means they can find, even a lie. Don’t forget that these people were able to kill just only because of different idea, and they killed in the name of God. Well, well, isn’t it somewhat strange?
My simple advice would be: don’t fight Dawkins and his ideas, do much better thing: try to understand, study and se for yourself. Sciences needed to understand Dawkins are many. Here only a short list : biology, memetics, semiotics, linguistics, ethology, evolutionary psychology, sociology, neurology, normal psychology, quantum mechanics, physics, chemistry, genetics, epigenetics, mathematics, statistics and many others………..when you have mastered them all and you still believe in God then I can tell you the following:
Son being a communist and father capitalist some 50 years ago in the USA, father said to his son: ”If somebody doesn’t believe in communism and he is in his 20´s, then there is something wrong with his heart, if he still believes in communism in his 30´s, then there is something wrong with his head.”
In order to understand this fully you need to know what amygdala is and the limbic system, what functions they have as opposed to frontal cortex, and how they influence us.
It is difficult to understand what Dawkins says for a simple reason, other people know much less and their ability to think has also not properly developed. So go and study, then you will understand, understand the difference between science and belief, they are not the same. It makes me sad when I still read texts that reveal how right I am about their ability to think strictly logical at cognitive level and not at emotional level guided by their feeling of being offended.
When you look properly that is exactly what these people say and write here, they feel offended, offended by truth. Funny people, or maybe normal, depends how we take it.
# posted by Dalibor @ 7:41 AM 
