Dawkins’ Reasoning
“For something like a god to form by any known undirected process, it’d have to start out simple and proceed slowly.”
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The Anthropic Principle
“…the nature of people (hence “anthropic”) is that we consider only the aspect of this calculation which gives a low probability and therefore makes us feel special.”
The Atheist’s Riddle
“Perry Marshall presents himself as an invincible defender of his supposed proof of an Intelligent Designer, standing atop a mountain of vanquished counter-arguments from hordes of atheists.”
Naturalistic Pantheism
“The only practical difference between a naturalistic pantheist and an atheist, therefore, is that an atheist doesn’t bother to call the universe a god. It’s just a universe.”
Moral Relativism
This is the relativist position: the moral absolutes are either unknown or non-existent and therefore irrelevant.
The Great Big Arguments #7: Morality
“Only humans are aware of having a stake in the moral and ethical parameters within which we live our lives. That’s why we’ve worked so hard to shape them over thousands of years, using various forms of authority from self-contained logic to force to claims of divine backing to support one adjustment over another.”
Atheism: The inverse religion?
“Every reporter who’s done a piece on atheism in the last four years has thought it’s terribly clever and original to couch it in religious terms…”
Ghosts and the Paranormal
“…if the basketball at the next NBA finals were to suddenly fall upwards and get stuck under the scoreboard, the theory of gravity would be challenged and science would have a lot of catching up to do. That does not mean it’s at all likely to actually happen.“
The Fine-Tuning Argument, in terms of probability
“The fundamental constants are set in one of potentially infinite combinations which permit life.”
The Basics
“You’ve gone very wide, so I’ll be very shallow initially.”