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Dr. Eowyn posted: "Fools say in their hearts, "There is no God." Their
deeds are loathsome and corrupt; not one does what is right. - Psalm 53
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*Fools say in their hearts,*
* "There is no God."*
* Their deeds are loathsome and corrupt;*
* not one does what is right.*
* - Psalm 53*
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*Richard Dawkins, 72, atheist*
I've always thought atheists are the most arrogant people. Ever.
While agnosticism -- uncertainty about the existence of God -- is an
understandable position to hold, atheism -- the conviction that God doesn't
exist -- is not only an intellectually arrogant position to hold, it is
also logically indefensible.
Allow me to explain.
Agnostics don't know if God exists or not. They are skeptical about whether
God exists for any number of reasons, including the absence or lack of
empirical evidence (or so they say) for God's existence, and perhaps the
most problematic of all -- how does one explain the existence of evil, if a
loving and omnipotent God exists?
Atheism, however, is indefensible on logical and empirical grounds. The
atheist credo, "There is no God," is what philosophers call a universal or
Categorical Negative -- an assertion that something (in this case, God)
absolutely does not exist.
This is akin to saying "There is no such thing as a chartreuse rabbit" (a
naturally chartreuse-colored rabbit). Imagine how this assertion can be
verified or "proven" to be true.
Take a minute or two to think about it. I'll wait . . . .
[image: Daffy Duck
waiting]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/daffy-duck-waiting.gif>To
prove that the statement "There is no chartreuse rabbit" or "Chartreuse
rabbits don't exist" would require you to look around and ascertain that
you could not find a naturally chartreuse-colored rabbit -- not just in the
town or city where you live, not just in America, not just on Earth, but in
all the millions and millions and millions of planets, stars, moons, and
asteroids all across the Universe. For even though you and I had never seen
one, nor has anyone in all of human history, how do we know chartreuse
rabbits don't exist *somewhere* in the unimaginably vast Universe? We can
exclude the possibility that chartreuse rabbits don't exist only if we had
seen EVERYTHING in the Universe.
The same goes for the atheist's Categorical Negative that "There is no
God." Just think how arrogant the atheist must be to presume to know
EVERYTHING there is to know in the Universe, so that s/he actually presumes
to know that God doesn't exist!
Notwithstanding all his academic credentials, achievements, and popular
acclaim, 72-year-old English evolutionary biologist *Richard Dawkins* is
just such an arrogant know-it-all. In his 2006 book *The God
Delusion<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_Delusion>
*, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not
exist and that religious faith is a delusion.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in *The Brothers Karamazov*, wrote: *"In a world
without God, everything is permitted." ***
It should come as no surprise, then, that Dawkins recently made the news
with his astonishing proclamation that there's nothing wrong with a little
"mild pedophilia" -- whatever "mild" pedophilia means.
Kirsten Andersen reports for
LifeSiteNews<http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/richard-dawkins-theres-nothing-wrong-with-a-little-mild-pedophilia>,
Sept. 12, 2013, that when he was 11 years old, Dawkins had been sexually
molested by his art teacher who pulled the boy onto his lap, reached into
his shorts, and fondled his genitals. When young Dawkins told his
schoolmates, he learned he wasn’t alone – their teacher had abused other
boys, too.
But 60 years later, Dawkins can’t bring himself to condemn the teacher’s
actions, but instead strains to defend the creep. Dawkins told *The
Times*magazine that abuse like he and his classmates suffered causes
“no lasting
harm,” and that “mild pedophilia” or “touching up” shouldn’t be judged as
harshly as rape or other crimes.
Ever the moral relativist, Dawkins said: “I am very conscious that you
can’t condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours. Just as we
don’t look back at the 18th and 19th centuries and condemn people for
racism in the same way as we would condemn a modern person for racism, I
look back a few decades to my childhood and see things like caning, like
mild pedophilia, and can’t find it in me to condemn it by the same
standards as I or anyone would today.”
Victims’ rights groups reacted with outrage to Dawkins’ comments. *Peter
Watt*, director of child protection at the *National Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children*, said Dawkins’ remarks were “a terrible
slight” to victims of childhood sexual abuse: “Mr. Dawkins seems to think
that because a crime was committed a long time ago we should judge it in a
different way. But we know that the victims of sexual abuse suffer the same
effects, whether it was 50 years ago or yesterday.”
*Peter Saunders, founder of the National Association for People Abused in
Childhood* and himself a victim of abuse, said, “Abuse in all its forms has
always been wrong. Evil is evil and we have to challenge it whenever and
wherever it occurs.”
Dawkins' reaction was to double
down<http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/12/atheist-richard-dawkins-doubles-down-on-mild-pedophilia-claims-amid-furor/>on
his remarks via social media, taking to Twitter to argue that “’Mild
touching up’ is bad. Raping 8-year-old wife to death is worse…Quantitative
judgment vs. black/white.”
When users reacted with anger to the statement, he pressed on, writing, “Is
anyone seriously denying that raping an 8-year-old to death is worse than
putting a hand inside a child's clothes? Are you that ABSOLUTE?
Non-consensual sex is always bad. But raping an 8-year-old to death is
quantitatively worse than ‘touching inappropriately. Shades of grey.”
*This is not the first time Dawkins has said something controversial about
pedophilia. In his book The God Delusion, he
argued<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2251963/Being-raised-Catholic-worse-child-abuse-Latest-incendiary-claim-atheist-professor-Richard-Dawkins.html>that
raising children in the Catholic faith is more abusive than sexual
molestation. *Referring to the priestly abuse scandals then rocking the
Church in Ireland, Dawkins wrote, “Horrible as sexual abuse no doubt was,
the damage was arguably less than the long-term psychological damage
inflicted by bringing the child up Catholic in the first place.”
What an arrogant, hateful, and confused man!
*~Eowyn*
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