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Faith Re-re-visited
November 8, 2006 by Anonymous, 3 years 2 weeks ago
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Anonymous #1 and #2 are correct in their statements. It is ironic to hear Dawkins disparage faith. However, it is not true that Dawkins thinks science is going to disprove God.
This isn't the point #1 was trying to make however. The irony is the faith that Dawkins puts in his concept of science. To pick one field for example, evolution as pointed out to him in the video, which was quick to interrupt, is the theory of evolution. It is not without unanswered questions, missing pieces. It is not a complete theory that is proven to be fact. Dawkin's faith is that in time the theory will come to fruition in that all the holes will be plugged, the questions answered, and it will be referred to as the Law of Evolution.
The "truth" is everybody works on faith, individuals like to think they know alot, but truly we know very little. We like to think we know our cars will start in the morning, but the truth is we do not know what events have taken place overnight that may prevent the automobiles function. When we turn the key with such confidence, we believe it will start as a matter of faith, not knowlege. If we did not put so much faith into so many things throughout everyday life, we would be paralized unable to make any choices or any actions due to all the things we do not know.
Dawkin's great contradiction is his adamant profession that reasonable people don't have faith, don't believe in God, and certainly don't believe in Creation. He views the teaching of anything other than Evolution an attack on science, and considers "religious" schools that teach Creation rather than evolution as dangerous to children, that they are having views forced upon them without choice.
Yet if Dawkin's could have his way, every school would teach evolution and only evolution, which is the exact same optionless position he has a problem with in the private religious schools. If he were consistant and "rational" he would promote teaching of all supported ideas, aswell as teaching students -how- to think, rather than -what- to think, to equip them decide for themselves what is reasonable and right.
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