By: Randy • Religion and science • 4 comments • 7 years ago
Watch. Listen. Enjoy. Learn. Understand. Grow. Become a better human being.
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How small and insignificant.
By: Randy • Religion and science • 1 comments • 9 years ago
How vast these Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small...
More Thoughts of Richard Dawson from his book 'The God Delusion', Mono and Polytheism
By: Randy • Religion and science • 11 comments • 9 years ago
Polytheism
It is not clear why the change from polytheism to monotheism should be assumed to be a self-evident progressive improvement. But it widely is - an assumption that provoked Ibn Warraq (author of Why I Am Not A Muslim) wittily to conjecture that monotheism is in turn doomed to subtract one more god and become atheism. The Catholic Encyclopedia dismisses polytheism and atheism in the...
More Richard Dawkins. Selected chapters and thoughts of his from his best selling book 'The God Delusion.'
By: Randy • Religion and science • 1 comments • 9 years ago
A deeply religious non-believer
I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe to at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
Albert Einstien
Deserved respect
The boy lies prone in the grass , his chin resting on his hands. He suddenly found himself overwhelmed by a heightened awareness of the tangled stems and roots, a forest...
Dawkins. Selected chapters and thoughts of his from his best selling book "The God Delusion.
By: Randy • Religion and science • 10 comments • 9 years ago
Why there is almost certainly no God.
The Priests of the different religious sects...dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subdivisions of the duperies on which they live'
Thomas Jefferson
The Ultimate Boeing 747
The argument from improbability is the big one. It is the traditional guise of the argument of design.,...