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General => Pseudo-science, Conspiracy Theories, and Other Loads of Bull => Topic started by: MarcusA on April 24, 2023, 06:52:09 AM

Title: Richard Dawkins and the Use of Pseudoscience
Post by: MarcusA on April 24, 2023, 06:52:09 AM
Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion has more pseudoscience in it than a barrel full of monkeys.
Title: Re: Richard Dawkins and the Use of Pseudoscience
Post by: Icarus on May 06, 2023, 06:55:35 PM
Does the book have more pseudoscience than the KJV? 

You wanna read some real strange stuff, try The Book of Mormon.
Title: Re: Richard Dawkins and the Use of Pseudoscience
Post by: billy rubin on May 06, 2023, 08:08:44 PM
dawkins is a respected sociobiologist. he was required reading for me 45 years ago in graduate school.
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on religion, hes kind of an idiot.
Title: Re: Richard Dawkins and the Use of Pseudoscience
Post by: MarcusA on May 23, 2023, 04:33:19 AM
He's a kind of idiot all round as far as I am concerned.
Title: Re: Richard Dawkins and the Use of Pseudoscience
Post by: billy rubin on May 23, 2023, 04:55:14 AM
his biology is good. on rejecting theism, dawkins repeatedly falls into the trap of explaining that god is unlikely because he doesnt appear to act in ways that dawkins would, were dawkins to be god.
Title: Re: Richard Dawkins and the Use of Pseudoscience
Post by: MarcusA on May 23, 2023, 09:22:48 AM
In rejecting religion, he's too literal for me.