{"id":2382,"date":"2009-01-31T17:13:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T22:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2009-01-31T17:13:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T22:13:49","slug":"how-to-get-up-richard-dawkins-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/how-to-get-up-richard-dawkins-nose\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get up Richard Dawkins' nose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disagree<\/a> with him:<\/p>\n

Poll reveals public doubts over Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Belief in creationism is widespread in Britain, \"Addaccording to a new survey.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prof Dawkins expressed dismay at the findings of the ComRes survey, of 2,060 adults, which he claimed were confirmation that much of the population is “pig-ignorant” about science.<\/p>\n

“Obviously life, which was Darwin’s own subject, is not the result of chance,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Any fool can see that. Natural selection is the very antithesis of chance.<\/p>\n

“The error is to think that God is the only alternative to chance, and Darwin surely didn’t think that because he himself discovered the most important non-theistic alternative to chance, namely natural selection.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems that Richard Dawkins thinks that the great unwashed \u00a0in the UK are pig-ignorant about science in much the same way as Dawkins is pig-ignorant about theology. Except that Dawkins displays his ignorance with more fanfare and gets paid for it.<\/p>\n

As for “Natural selection is the very antithesis of chance”, <\/em>the antithesis of chance is a plan; which means\u00a0 Dawkins is claiming that natural selection is somehow planned. He goes to great lengths to ridicule the idea that life was designed and yet can’t bring himself to admit that it occurred through chance; which means it must have been planned and, therefore, designed. And he calls Christians illogical.<\/p>\n

He has anthropomorphised natural selection, imbued it with purpose and intent and turned it into a god. A god that he worships.<\/p>\n

Very scientific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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