I am sorry, Mr Dawkins, you are sadly mistaken!
1st June 2006
You claim that you are dedicated to seek truth and that through science and the scientific method you and your cohorts have the monopoly on Truth. By “your cohorts,” I mean those who take science to be the only source of human knowledge and who champion the scientific method as the only route to acquiring knowledge. You also claim that religion is opposed to Truth just because it is in the domain of faith. For you, faith is any belief that isn’t based on evidence. You assume that science is not like religion because science has no room for faith.
You claim to know a whole bunch of stuff through your science, but alas, in reality science gives you precious little knowledge about a whole bunch of other stuff. Science will be hard pressed, for instance, to tell us about the true nature of light, space and time. Even your most esteemed colleagues argue about the very nature of these matters. Read the rest of this entry »
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