Dave makes lots of Nonsense Noises

[shiftyboyd]

I'm beginning to notice that I love every single Third Eye Blind song I hear. Well, at least, on their "Out of the Vein" album. First, I got hooked on "Blinded", which was a single some time ago. Then, after I bought the album, I started listening to "Faster." These are the first two tracks on the album

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[lizardscum]

Some of Dawkins early works are pretty good reads. I'm big on anti-religion, but "The God Delusion" is a crock of bullocks soup. It's a decidedly unscientific mishmash of dogmatism, second-rate anthropology, misrepresentation, and regurgitated rhetoric. I find that book to be very unprofessional and manipulating, going against exactly what it promises. High-school senior caliber religious ranting disguised as scientific/sociological analysis. I'm surprised you liked it so much, I know many fellow atheists who despise that book

[shiftyboyd]

Oh, I definitely saw the hypocrisy. I don't believe in necessarily shooting down what people believe, as Dawkins seems (more than seems) to. Do I agree that religion is a destructive force? Yes. In some cases. I think some people take their religion to far. But, like in the case of my mother, her faith isn't hurting anyone. I highly respect religious individuals who have found their faith on their own, instead of taking what they are fed and running with it

[shiftyboyd]

As I was reading the book, I saw the hypocrisy, but, naturally, I'm going to laugh at the hypocrisy because it adheres to my belief. The only thing I thought was head-on right was "The Mother of all Burkas." He, more or less, seemed to ignore the whole God idea and just concentrated on how science operates. I think we need people like him to open up the eyes of other people; he compensates for us atheists who keep their mouths shut in a room full of Christians (in my case, because of where I live.) Do I think it was missing true anthropological and sociological evidence? Yes. I might not have overlooked that in the way that I did if he were, in fact, an anthropologist or a sociologist. But I kept in mind his field of study. Though, I do wonder, being a scientist, does he have a right to write a book like that if he does not practice Anthropology or Sociology? I guess the answer is, yes, he does have a right, but I'm not going to take his methods seriously when he explores those arenas. I do take his scientific word/ideas seriously,

[lizardscum]

I see, koo koo.

I can't recall all of them, but some stronger books on the subject include: On The Nature and Existence of God/ The Wisdom to Doubt/ The Cosmological Argument/ How We Believe/ The Demon-Haunted World

All good stuff to read while chomping on some corn in between debate sessions with four eleven.