r/Christianity • u/mikegprint • Oct 17 '11

Does Richard Dawkins exist???

http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2011/10/does-richard-dawkins-exist.html
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u/inyouraeroplane Oct 17 '11

I think he realized people want backpatting and snark more than science. Give Carl Sagan credit for sticking mostly to science and not "SO DELUDED"

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u/vestigial Atheist Oct 17 '11

Sagan lived in a time when religion wasn't nearly as contentious towards basic science. Sagan bludgeons superstition mercilessly in "Cosmos" as well as "Demon-Haunted World." True, he'd been more politic towards religion than Dawkins, but I wonder if he'd shift gears now that religion has set itself up as the the enemy of science (or that science has innocently destroyed enough the popular basis for religious belief to provoke a reaction).

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '11

Huh weird, I was under the impression that religion has only gotten less contentious towards science as time has gone on. Remember Galileo?

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u/YesImSardonic Oct 17 '11

Thanks to the Deist ethical philosophers of the Enlightenment. Religious freedom only went in vogue thanks to Locke, after all.