{"id":7814,"date":"2010-03-17T11:08:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T15:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7814"},"modified":"2010-03-17T11:08:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T15:08:17","slug":"how-arrogant-is-dawkins-let-me-count-the-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/how-arrogant-is-dawkins-let-me-count-the-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"How arrogant is Dawkins? Let me count the ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, one way.<\/p>\n<p>Bertrand Russell, mathematician, philosopher and atheist, when asked what he would say to God if he met him after death, answered \u201cNot enough evidence, God!\u00a0 Not enough evidence!\u201d Although he continued to call himself an atheist, Russell acknowledged that, technically, he was an agnostic, since he didn\u2019t believe in the non-existence of God.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Dawkins, when asked the same question, not only didn\u2019t answer it, but mocked the questioner. Today\u2019s coterie of atheists really do give atheism a bad name and would undoubtedly make atheists of the past wince; even though I still disagreed with them, at least they had a modicum of wit, finesse, decency and understood the philosophical difficulties that hard atheism presents.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6mmskXXetcg]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, one way. Bertrand Russell, mathematician, philosopher and atheist, when asked what he would say to God if he met him after death, answered \u201cNot enough evidence, God!\u00a0 Not enough evidence!\u201d Although he continued to call himself an atheist, Russell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/how-arrogant-is-dawkins-let-me-count-the-ways\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2049,2238],"class_list":["post-7814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","tag-atheism","tag-richard-dawkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}