Richard Dawkins - Anti -Christ or Great Thinker?

Anyway, that author may consider Lucretius to be a Roman or "Latin" philosopher, but everything that Lucretius wrote was based directly on the observations of the Greek philosopher Epicurus. (flounces away)

remember this you cranky old ass hole ahaha @RichardDawkins pic.twitter.com/ZRGtNvsFoQ

— leon (@leyawn) September 13, 2014

Philosophers happily speak of “continental philosophy.” What science department would appoint a professor to teach “continental chemistry”? pic.twitter.com/4PO3bEwWsH

— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) August 19, 2017

And it's not even the first time he's said this!

As always it's not that he's not otm it's that he's a dick

Philosophers' historic failure to anticipate Darwin is a severe indictment of philosophy. Happy Darwin Day!

— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) February 12, 2014

All philosophy a footnote to Plato? I’m sincerely curious why Plato is so revered. What was he actually right about? I’m honestly ignorant.

— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) March 22, 2015

Great thinker at work here.

"Whether it's immanence or transcendence". Just heard that gem on the BBC Sunday Morning Idiot Rally. What do those words actually MEAN?

— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) March 24, 2013

The failure of anyone in the scientific community to anticipate Newton is a severe indictment of science? Uh, no.

The failure of medical science to anticipate Pasteur is a severe indictment of medical science? Uh, no.

The failure of physics to anticipate Einstein is a severe indictment of physics? Uh, no.

The failure of Richard Dawkins to understand when he is talking nonsense is a severe indictment of Richard Dawkins? BINGO!

historic failure to anticipate Darwin

what does this even mean? is he saying early science did not prophesy that a Darwin would come? is he saying there is nothing leading up to Darwin? that would be false as there are many precedents to Darwin and evolutionary theory and scientific biology in early science, in early philosophy, and in Eastern and Western traditions. or is purely this some sort of inter-departmental squabble that is impenetrable to anyone outside an Academic career path?

I’m sincerely curious why Plato is so revered.

bc your culture is built on fetishizing Western Greek/Latin as the standard of civilization you moron

There's actually a very long list of natural philosophers that anticipated Darwin, going back to classical Greece.

Rebecca Stott's Darwin's Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists (2013) was a very good read.

As for social and epistemology philosophers, why would they care?

dawkins is cool with british university phil depts that don't specify a region and study white guys almost exclusively

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYV4fNLVMAAIovT.jpg

Well, it's Ricky Gervais or that cunt from Elbow but not fat enough to be either tbh.

*thinking emoji*

Listening to the lovely bells of Winchester, one of our great mediaeval cathedrals. So much nicer than the aggressive-sounding “Allahu Akhbar.” Or is that just my cultural upbringing? pic.twitter.com/TpCkq9EGpw

— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) July 16, 2018

the notoriously unromantic evening call of the muezzin.

it's almost as if he knows fuck all of which he speaks

maybe needs to stop paying conjugal visits to Tommy Robinson

I know that tweet caused a ruckus, but isn't it meant to be sardonic? His whole point as an atheist is that religious ideas are inherently cultural and rooted in upbringing etc.

no

suggests that his whole shtick the last 20 years has been a performance art piece about cultural relativism.

there is some level of awareness but not enough for it to click/him not to post

Yeah looking at his own follow-up, there's not much excuse.

The call to prayer can be hauntingly beautiful, especially if the muezzin has a musical voice. My point is that “Allahu Akhbar” is anything but beautiful when it is heard just before a suicide bomb goes off. That is when Islam is tragically hijacked by violence.

— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) July 18, 2018

I’m sure church bells sound different to those who have been physically and sexually abused by the clergy, so virtually any religious audio cue can be altered dramatically depending on your life experience.

— 🌊Progressive Idahoan🇺🇸 (@IdahoProgessive) July 18, 2018

"My point is that I prefer listening to church bells to getting killed by a suicide bomber! Who can possibly disagree with that??"

its his lame cultural upbringing. growing up in the Bible belt i've never been far from heavy bells suddenly clanging in the middle of the day like a set of loud windchimes (minus all the twee charm). then following whatever jangly pseudo rhythm they knock out the time of day.

if it's noon? DONG... DONG... DONG... DONG... DONG... DONG... DONG... DONG... DONG... DONG... DONG... DONG...

so it always ends as just a loud clock with robotic precision ominously counting down.

by contrast the call to prayer is pretty sweet, it's poetic, it's an actual human voice for crying out loud.

why do you hate the dong

Dickie Dongkins

I've only been in two predominantly Muslim cities -- Sarajevo and Istanbul -- and I loved the calls to prayer.

why do you hate the dong

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 19:39 (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

because of the wang

I've only spent a few nights in Islamic cities, but in Male, Maldives, in a local B&B with blinds rather than windows, the pre-dawn adhan was astonishingly beautiful, certainly better than any racket I've resorted to as an alarm sound. As its being played simultanously from loudspeakers around the town, there's this natural echo/ambient effect...

Aren't all of your books Atheism for Children https://t.co/SQTn2PBig7

— woke space jeremy (@JeremyMcLellan) August 22, 2018

quality lol

https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/d35ana/talking-to-the-guy-who-invented-the-word-meme-richard-dawkins

This video here is from the Saatchi show in Cannes. You were playing some kind of amazing instrument—what was that?
The advertising company Saatchi and Saatchi were producing a film to introduce the festival and they chose the theme of memes. And so they had me giving a short three-minute lecture on what a meme is and then I walked off the stage so they could show a kind of psychedelic light show with my words displayed and whirling around. It made it look as though they had taken words from my lecture and immediately put them into this film. But of course what they had really done was have me give the lecture word for word before, so they could extract the phrases and words they wanted to use, then at the end I had to walk onto the stage again with my ewi, which is an electronic wind instrument, a kind of electronic clarinet or oboe.

How did you come to play the ewi?
I played the clarinet at school and the fingering of the ewi is pretty similar to the clarinet. I was able to pick it up very easily. I actually played it as a trumpet because the sound is actually dependent on the software.

Who were some of your musical inspirations?
Well I love schubert, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven.

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Was it nature, a particular moment or work of art that inspired you to denounce your Anglican upbringing?
I wouldn't say "denounce." That might be putting it a bit strongly. Christianity is somewhat harmless compared to some alternatives. I suppose at about 15 or 16 I decided that there was no God

Lol @ “somewhat harmless” - inquistion, crusades, mostly harmless

Is it our duty to enforce secularism, because in the West we think we know better?
I don’t like the idea of enforcing anything. I prefer to let people to think for themselves and in the case of science, you’ve only got to lay it out. It’s just there and it's so utterly convincing. I’m guessing your sister has a mobile phone, how does she think that works? It's science! Cars go because of science! Planes fly because of science! They don’t go by magic carpet or something. She is completely surrounded by a world in which everything she does, everything she touches, is designed on the basis of science. That’s why it works but I'm not in favour of a dictatorial enforcing.

Do you have a new project underway?
Yes, a children's book. A children's version of The God Delusion. Atheism for children, provisionally called Outgrowing God. It’s an attempt to break the cycle whereby children are automatically religious whether they like it or not, simply by inheriting the religion of their parents. I’m hoping children will read this book and then realise there is no God. You could give a copy to your sister.

Dawkins is racist?

Yes

How so? Genuinely curious.

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Lol

Because he's a white British dude who doesn't spare Islam either? Seems like a simplistic view.

Unless I'm missing something here.

did you load all the messages?

Yes, and I read them all a minute ago.

Οὖτις, nowhere has Dawkins stated that people from Middle-eastern or Maghreb backgrounds are intrinsically, genetically inferior. He's just said that the culture surrounding Islam is, in sum, an inferior culture.

Maybe its cultural bigotry, but it isn't racist.

I mean if you get him at the right moment he'll go on for hours about the terrible evils of Christianity, but on the other hand he's prone to unguarded comments like the one up there about Christianity being somewhat harmless compared to other religions.