1. Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher

Comment #159320 by Midas on April 12, 2008 at 12:17 am

I've read Francis Collins book "The Language of God", and he definitely is not the sort of Christian who would believe in talking snakes. I though Maher verballed him. I agree with Bueller_007, Collins is anti-ID, fully accepts all aspects of evolution and shouldn't be derided with that lot.

2. What he wishes on us is an abomination

Comment #125682 by Midas on February 11, 2008 at 8:50 pm

Without overstating the influence, I can't help but think that this is in some small part due to the "New Athiests" attacking faith per se. I think it's had the effect of many people taking a second look at their faith and its underpinnings. Although Islam is fairly immune from this influence, I think it's effect on instutionalised Christianity is to see itself as a "co-faith" with Islam rather than a rival religion. So the archbishop, to some extent, feels the need to "circle the wagons".

At least, it would be nice to think so.

3. This Week's Flea

Comment #100909 by Midas on December 19, 2007 at 3:14 pm

Going by the interview in Salon.com, I think you are all being a bit hard on this week's flea. He's not a literalist, he accepts evolution, he's anti-ID. He's probably grown up in Roman Catholicism and over that time, has discarded 90% of what he originally believed in, because he's been confronted by reason. In the interview, he comes across as a fairly pathetic character, still clinging by his fingertips to the last vestiges of his faith and not yet willing to give it away entirely.

You people sit in you ivory towers and, comment after comment, essentially say, "What IS IT with this world? Why doesn't it just ACCEPT REASON AND LOGIC??" Well, the world won't. Not in my lifetime, anyway. They're humans. If, in 100 years' time, the human race moves as far as this flea evidently has, there is grounds for hope.

Haught's battle is already lost, and i think he knows it. There is so much worse ignorance out there. Go battle it.