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Thread #121446   Message #2656060
Posted By: GUEST,Shimrod
14-Jun-09 - 08:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: Science and Religion
Subject: RE: BS: Science and Religion
I did enjoy reading 'The God Delusion', 'robomatic'. A bit 'extreme' perhaps (?) - but then it was countering thousands of years of extremism!

I think that the most valuable lesson that it teaches is that religion is not above criticism.

I was accosted in the street, the other day, by some evangelicals. In the course of my debate with them I suddenly realised that what had prompted this particular 'crusade' was writers like Dawkins and Hitchens (author of 'God is not Great' ... if you thought Dawkins was extreme, just try that!). They even appeared to have softened their position on evolution. I suspect that at least one of those books was 'bang on target'!