Timeline for If it weren't for the theory of evolution, would the argument from design for God's existence be justified?
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| Jul 19, 2021 at 17:19 | comment | added | CriglCragl | @AlexanderSKing: Excellent point. He has a blind spot on the issue. Brett Weinstein challenged him on the idea of religion as a parasitic meme complex, saying over time parasites tend to symbiotise. But that emergent schools (or cults) are much more likely to parasitic, and cheekily asked if New Atheism is a better candidate for parasitic meme complex. Dawkins edited the question and his floundering spluttering answer out of the debate. | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 17:14 | comment | added | CriglCragl | Indeed. And we don't truly understand abiogenesis, we just expect to one day. | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 14:35 | comment | added | user48488 | I would suggest that Christopher Hitchens was more influential in this regard. | |
| Feb 22, 2016 at 18:11 | comment | added | Chris Sunami | The following is a direct quote from Dawkins: "Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist." That seems to support your point. BTW, I happened on the following link while hunting down that quote, you might find it interesting. No endorsement of the site or the contents by me is intended: talkorigins.org/indexcc/CA/CA602_1.html | |
| Feb 22, 2016 at 17:28 | comment | added | Alexander S King | "anti-theologian Richard Dawkins, who has been vocal about his belief that it is unanswerable outside of the Theory of Evolution. " I wonder if Dawkins realizes the implications of this position: If it is indeed unanswerable outside of evolution, than for the vast majority of human history theism was the most rational position to adopt and therefore, it can't be trivialized the way he and sam harris do all the time. | |
| Feb 22, 2016 at 15:38 | history | answered | Chris Sunami | CC BY-SA 3.0 |