Richard Dawkins: Not Sure God Doesn´t Exist
Dawkins, from being atheist to being agnostic...what´s next...preacher for Christians, trying to collect money...? ahhh...these times, amazing what economic recessions do to some people´s minds, huh?
The philosopher Sir Anthony Kenny, who chaired the discussion, interjected: “Why don’t you call yourself an agnostic?” Prof Dawkins answered that he did. He told the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, that he preferred to call himself an agnostic rather than an atheist. The two men were taking part in a public “dialogue” at Oxford University at the end of a week which has seen bitter debate about the role of religion in public life in Britain. Last week Baroness Warsi, the Tory party chairman, warned of a tide of “militant secularism” challenging the religious foundations of British society. The discussion, in Sir Christopher Wren’s Sheldonian Theatre, attracted attention from around the world. He is regarded as the most famous atheist in the world but last night Professor Richard Dawkins admitted he could not be sure that God does not exist. |
|
This is nothing new. Dawkins has stated his position on god-belief many times.
p.s.- you do recognize that the vast majority of atheists are agnostic-atheists, right? |
Richard Dawkins is sincerely uncertain as to whether or not a magical white man is at the helm of alleged creation, and he is conceding that as a probability?
Well, since he's so famous and vocal, I guess we all better follow suit. :rolleyes: |
Quote:
Quote:
|
Quote:
Granted, the probability is so low that you may as well live your life as if the claim is false, until proven otherwise. Quote:
|
Maybe he was trying to be accommodating?
Honestly, I am not sure 100% that a god of some sort doesn't exist in some way. That's pretty vague, I know, but since I am only capable of understanding very little of so much about our world, I think it would be foolish of me to think that I am smart enough to thoroughly investigate and dismiss every eventuality. But I think that the chance that the god described by current world religions exists is less likely than the chance that our sun will go supernova tomorrow. My understanding is that Dawkins feels the same way: he said on a scale of 1-7 he is a 6.9 (7 being 100% certainty that no god exists). |
A lot of fuss about nothing. Clearly the person who wrote that has a real dislike of Dawkins and took it almost like some sort of personal victory.
|
Quote:
Quote:
|
Quote:
I didn't get that from this link. Keep in mind, Einstein, Jefferson, and many other historically respected individuals are misquoted or quoted out of context by theists to suit their own agenda, that being that such individuals were highly religious when in fact their many written opinions show that they were either deists or outright atheists. |
Quote:
|
Quote:
Quote:
|
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
|
I don't think whomever wrote that article(or just the one talking to Dawkins) knew what they were talking about. I addressed the issue of atheism/agnosticism just the other day.
Quote:
|
Quote:
I don't know. I guess I just expected the esteemed professor to be a much better debater than to fall into such an obvious trap when there was never any burden on him to define what these god-botherers won't. |
All times are GMT -7. The time now is 02:05 AM. |
Powered by: vBulletin - Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2000-2013, Raving Atheists [dot] com. All rights reserved.