Dawkins has done some really good work in science (at least in the sense of really getting great ideas out there -- he was one of the first people to popularize the concept of a "meme" among other things), but he really is a fundie.
FWIW, I personally really do think that everything in the Universe can be explained by science (not that I think we'll ever figure it all out; there's just to damn much of it), but that the realm of the spirit (if it exists -- agnostic, here, yo) is something *entirely separate* which, by definition, cannot be described by science. The physical Universe may or may not be connected to some form of the divine; I don't think we'll know for sure as long as we exist in the flesh and are part of the machinery. *shrugs* And, FWIW, I don't find that a "miserable way to experience the world," either, thanks. ;) There's plenty of room there for joy and wonder and all that jazz.
But Dawkins goes out of his way to be a gadfly for atheism, and that's as effing irritating to me as the folks who get out there and thump their fave holy text. He also tends to uphold the popular notion that all scientists are atheists, which they aren't.
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Date: 2009-10-28 07:35 am (UTC)FWIW, I personally really do think that everything in the Universe can be explained by science (not that I think we'll ever figure it all out; there's just to damn much of it), but that the realm of the spirit (if it exists -- agnostic, here, yo) is something *entirely separate* which, by definition, cannot be described by science. The physical Universe may or may not be connected to some form of the divine; I don't think we'll know for sure as long as we exist in the flesh and are part of the machinery. *shrugs* And, FWIW, I don't find that a "miserable way to experience the world," either, thanks. ;) There's plenty of room there for joy and wonder and all that jazz.
But Dawkins goes out of his way to be a gadfly for atheism, and that's as effing irritating to me as the folks who get out there and thump their fave holy text. He also tends to uphold the popular notion that all scientists are atheists, which they aren't.
Eh, I just try to ignore him, anymore.