tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post110917132340872308..comments2024-03-23T07:33:30.972+00:00Comments on Quodlibeta: Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01594220073836613367noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-1109570041700376872005-02-28T05:54:00.000+00:002005-02-28T05:54:00.000+00:00Stephen Barr complains that Dawkins insults people...Stephen Barr complains that Dawkins insults people by using phrases like 'boorish tenured confidence' and 'yahooish complacency'.<br /><br />http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0408/articles/barr.htm<br /><br />Dawkins uses that phrase about someone who wrote 'I am glad to be rid of English departments. I hate literature and English departments are full of people who love literature.'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-1109427943785873982005-02-26T14:25:00.000+00:002005-02-26T14:25:00.000+00:00Actually Mary and Elvis are running a souvenir sho...Actually Mary and Elvis are running a souvenir shop in Appalachia:-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-1109360464131083182005-02-25T19:41:00.000+00:002005-02-25T19:41:00.000+00:00Barr writes in his refutation of Dawkins ' The doc...Barr writes in his refutation of Dawkins ' The doctrine of the Trinity is “obvious nonsense,” and “it takes a real, red-blooded Catholic to believe something as daft as transubstantiation.” It is, however, the Catholic dogma of the Assumption of Mary that for him is the ne plus ultra of religious silliness, with Mary’s body “zooming off to Heaven.”'<br /><br />I imagine the views of Dawkins on the wrongness of Catholic dogma are shared by several hundred million Protestants.<br /><br />Did Mary's body really zoom off to Heaven, as the Pope teaches?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-1109269759964473932005-02-24T18:29:00.000+00:002005-02-24T18:29:00.000+00:00The Leader U Article rather amusingly claims that ...The Leader U Article rather amusingly claims that God did not design the world to be the way it is, and that we can tell by looking at the world that God designed it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-1109264204958966922005-02-24T16:56:00.000+00:002005-02-24T16:56:00.000+00:00WHY does God exist?WHY does God exist?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-1109254448801887142005-02-24T14:14:00.000+00:002005-02-24T14:14:00.000+00:00http://homepages.which.net/~radical.faith/misc/bir...http://homepages.which.net/~radical.faith/misc/birch.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-1109252843463161852005-02-24T13:47:00.000+00:002005-02-24T13:47:00.000+00:00http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/dawkins.htm...http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/dawkins.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-1109252115138880232005-02-24T13:35:00.000+00:002005-02-24T13:35:00.000+00:00The "arguments" of Dawkin's you posit are mere spe...The "arguments" of Dawkin's you posit are mere speculation with precious little evidence. Just like his concepts of things like "memes", interesting perhaps but hardly proven.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-1109251932214200502005-02-24T13:32:00.000+00:002005-02-24T13:32:00.000+00:00The "arguments" of Dawkin's you posit are mere spe...The "arguments" of Dawkin's you posit are mere speculation with precious little evidence. Just like his concepts of things like "memes", interesting perhaps but hardly proven.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-1109182261318949362005-02-23T18:11:00.000+00:002005-02-23T18:11:00.000+00:00Dawkin's strongest arguments are in his God's Util...Dawkin's strongest arguments are in his God's Utility Function in River out of Eden.<br /><br />Indeed, it is so strong that McGrath, in Dawkin's God, never dares to go near it....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-1109178809822493512005-02-23T17:13:00.000+00:002005-02-23T17:13:00.000+00:00I find it interesting how when pushed far enough, ...I find it interesting how when pushed far enough, some atheists become rather lazy intellectually. They might be content to ramble on endlessly about superstring theories and the like, yet when asked why the universe is the way it is, they try to brush you off with phrases like "it just is" or "it's just a brute fact of reality". Of course neither response tells you much of anything. Some even seem satis fied with the attitude that if the universe was fundamentally diffferent, we wouldn't be here and that's that. That anyone would find these kinds of reponses adequate is perplexing to say the least. Perhaps they are afraid of finding out about the "why" of the universe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com