Richard Dawkins 2016 Reason Rally Speech

[rug]

Don't forget to read the comments.

[struggle4progress]

1. He's quite consistent in his self-righteousness

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4. Objective too.

[Jim__]

2. "... the temptation to evade ... the responsibility to explain ..."

What responsibility to explain? Indeed, what responsibility? Where does any responsibility come from? I'm not quite sure how reason leads him there.

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3. It also denies the reality that some things will not nor can be explained.

"The effrontery of it is astounding."

[Albertoo]

7. That some things will never be explained is not a justification for tall tales

Mankind will never be able to prove what was before the Big Bang.
Some mathematical models might emerge, but won't have empirical validation.

But to fill that void with stories with gods, heavens, hells and angels is an effrontery of astounding chutzpah. The god of the gaps of apes to whom evolution taught to seek causality.

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8. Who says it does, besides you?

But it does demonstrate the limits of science. It's a way of learning but not a way of life.

[Albertoo]

9. Are you saying religions are not claiming to know what existed before the Big Bang?

That would be news.

Besides, who says science is a way of life, besides you?

[rug]

10. Actually, all they say is that a godhead existed. Unexplained.

Don't forget to read the comments.

[Leontius]

5. He seems to have made an excellent recovery from his stroke.

[rug]

6. Just as well he didn't make it to the rally.

It was in the 80s in DC last week.