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Monday, October 16, 2006

Interview with Dawkins

Salon has posted an interview with Richard Dawkins, whose latest book The God Delusion presents a rather scathing attack on religion. There have been a number of books challenging the reasonableness of religion lately, probably a reaction in America to the current administration's abuse of religious zealotry for political ends. Dawkins is unrelenting. I can appreciate his efforts, but I doubt his tone will take him very far. This passage isn't so bad, however.
What is so bad about religion?

Well, it encourages you to believe falsehoods, to be satisfied with inadequate explanations which really aren't explanations at all. And this is particularly bad because the real explanations, the scientific explanations, are so beautiful and so elegant. Plenty of people never get exposed to the beauties of the scientific explanation for the world and for life. And that's very sad. But it's even sadder if they are actively discouraged from understanding by a systematic attempt in the opposite direction, which is what many religions actually are. But that's only the first of my many reasons for being hostile to religion.

Salon.com Books | The flying spaghetti monster

Posted by garns at 09:01:39. Filed under: Religion

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