tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post6539838708277739995..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Memorable CatchphrasesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-90685771881416968022014-09-22T16:54:08.364-05:002014-09-22T16:54:08.364-05:00Dawkins got his fame from "The Selfish Gene.&...Dawkins got his fame from "The Selfish Gene." He found it sweet, so he went trolling for more.<br /><br />The number of comments at Salon every time they post anything with the word "atheist" in the headline proves it will at least sell enough books to get one in more headlines.<br /><br />Honestly, he's beginning to make me respect Carl Sagan as a scientist.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-65994294237839422752014-09-22T16:26:14.021-05:002014-09-22T16:26:14.021-05:00If Christians, in large numbers, came as close as ...If Christians, in large numbers, came as close as they could to living the gospel of Jesus it would be the most popular religion in the history of the world and anyone who talked about it like Dawkins, Maher, and your typical atheiventer at Salon-Alternet would be considered a total jerk, though Christians, of course, wouldn't call them that. They'd forgive them and pray for their persecutors. <br /><br />I still draw a line from Bertrand Russell in the period after he must have realized both his positivism and his materialism were unsustainable and he made a career change to being the world's most famous atheist to Richard Dawkins who is smart enough to see the writing on the wall for his genetic-reductionist claim to scientific fame and who is taking a similar golden parachute out of it, even as he denies that his zeppelin is on fire. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.com