1. Reading of The God Delusion in Lynchburg, VA

Comment #11959 by decortication on December 8, 2006 at 3:12 pm

You know what I find amusing? The fact that this man, with all his knowledge and education, wasted his time writing an entire book about something he doesn't believe in. How ridiculous is that? That's like writing an entire book trying to disprove the existence of faeries and elves.

Of course, if he wrote a book trying to disprove the existence of faeries and elves everyone would probably think he was a complete imbecile, but since it's God he's trying to disprove the existence of, he's automatically assumed to be a genius.

You know what else I find amusing? The fact that atheists seem to think that atheism isn't a religion. Just because it's based on disbelief, it doesn't make it any less of a religion. If it weren't for Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc. atheism wouldn't even exist. How pathetic is that? Every other major religion can stand on its own, yet atheism requires other religions just to subsist.

2. Reading of The God Delusion in Lynchburg, VA

Comment #11951 by decortication on December 8, 2006 at 2:14 pm

I see you've been taking lessons from Dawkins. Congrats on the asinine response.

3. Reading of The God Delusion in Lynchburg, VA

Comment #11948 by decortication on December 8, 2006 at 1:47 pm

I'd like to point out that most of the pro-Dawkins comments on here are simply mindless worship from a host of robotic followers.

These people claim to be intelligent, yet they blindly devour everything Dawkins says, without even bothering to process it for themselves. Essentially, they fall prey to exactly the same mindset they condemn (i.e. blind following). How ironic.

If these people would stop for long enough to pull their collective heads out of Dawkin's rear-end they might be able to see his "arguments" seem to often fall into diversionary tactics and straw-manning.

Take, for example, his response in the video to the "age of dinosaurs" question. Didn't anyone notice that he never actually addressed the question OR the problem, but merely straw-manned the argument by diverting attention away from the actual question and onto the difference in the spans of time between them? He then tried to "prove" his argument by just saying an overly-complicated version of "there's a big difference in time between them." Well thanks a lot, genius, any idiot can see that there's a huge difference between six thousand and a few billion. Pointing out that difference neither proves his point, nor disproves his opposition's point -- it merely states the glaringly obvious.

Seriously weak response. And you all bought it hook, line and sinker -- and then you turn around and piss and moan about people who automatically buy into everything the Bible says. Hypocrites.