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Comments by wahoonie


1. Let us pray for the soul of Richard Dawkins

Comment #40268 by wahoonie on May 14, 2007 at 4:06 am

btw is there any chance to sue people that threaten you pray for your "soul" ???

2. Let us pray for the soul of Richard Dawkins

Comment #40267 by wahoonie on May 14, 2007 at 4:04 am

"You are on a deserted beach with a rifle, an elephant and a baby. This is the last elephant on earth and it is charging the baby. Do you shoot the elephant, knowing the species would become extinct?
This was the dilemma Richard Dawkins [...]
He was outraged by my answer: man, beast, they were all the same to him and the priority must be to protect the endangered species. He berated me for my foolish belief in the specialness of humanity for its soul."

i cannot at all understand dawkins being "outraged" by such an answer:
being a homo sapiens i can only but react to my set of behavioural patterns which means "protect the child of your own species for you might most of your the genes and those must survive" - be it my own or someone else's offspring.

and then if i know that it is the last elephant and it will be extinct anyways in a few weeks, months or years...

appears like some argument for the sake of dispute

3. The Case Against Intelligent Design: The Faith That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Comment #39893 by wahoonie on May 12, 2007 at 7:47 am

I' love to have stickers in religous texts like:

"WARNING: This textbook contains material on religions and is full of violence. Religions are stories, not facts, regarding the origin of things like gods, walking corpses and suchlike. This material shouldn't be approached at all, though if you feel you have to then with a scientific mind and it should be very critically considered."