Month: November 2018
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Richard Dawkins praises the Bible…is he an ignorant barbarian?
Remember that Richard Dawkins wrote: The God of the Qur’an is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. Oh, right, no, ok, he would never utter…
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How Billions of Demons Haunted Baloney While Avoiding Detection
Fine, first and foremost I’ll explain the title: In this essay we will be making reference to Carl Sagan’s book, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, particularly chapter 12 which is entitled, The Fine Art of Baloney Detection1. Finally, we will make reference to Richard Lewontin’s Billions and Billions of Demons…
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Richard Dawkins, the Cowardly Clown
In keeping with his constant attention getting shenanigans and his equally constant absconding from debating apt challengers via a barrage of illogical and excuses, the moniker of cowardly clown fits Richard Dawkins more than ever (see Send in the Clowns – Richard Dawkins Obliges). Enter Jonathan Sarfati (PhD in chemistry), senior scientist at Creation Ministries…