By BJ Bjornson
I just love this little exchange from an interview with Dawkins by Lightspeed Magazine:
[Interviewer] Speaking of really strange characters, I gather from your recent op-ed in The Washington Post that you�re not a big fan of this year�s crop of Republican presidential contenders?
[Dawkins] Is anyone that you know? I mean, no, of course not. These people are know-nothings, and it would be a tragedy if any of them was elected. No serious scientist, or nobody even of any education at all, takes Creationism seriously. It�s almost as though the American electorate is splitting into two species, with the civilized, educated ones on one hand and the total ignorant know-nothings on the other, and it�s terribly sad that a large number of voters seem prepared to vote for somebody because he�s like them rather than because they think he�s actually qualified to lead the country.
Gets really hard to argue with that sometimes.
Creationism is a flaw that all religions I know of share. They postulate that their deity created the universe. Created: past tense, like its not happening any more.
ReplyDeleteThey couldn't be more wrong.
It's one reason why conservatives and religious folk seem to track together, no change, no evolution, static. And the GOP claims they espouse these principles while worshipping Mammon/
Dawkins is an arrogant, offputting atheist and materialist, however.
ReplyDelete