Richard Dawkins

Biblical Creation as a Worldview Should Biblical Creationism be presented parallel with evolution as a valid explanation of the origin of the universe? The secular system is accepting evolution as fact, when evolution is really a worldview in which one sees the facts. The argument can then be made that if one must exert faith to believe evolution, then Biblical Creationism should not be disqualified as an equal explanation. National evangelist and former atheist Kirk Cameron (2004) writes,…

Therefore, nature is probably the work of a designer” (Evans, 2009). God cannot be explained or defined, and He cannot be put into a neat little box of answers to all of man’s questions. Attempting to explain God’s nature and all that encompasses Him, His intelligence, character, and supernatural powers, would be futile and unfeasible. It would be impossible to explain everything that encompasses God, and attempting to do so would probably take an eternity. Acknowledging that human beings are…

William Paley (1743 – 1805) was a professor of philosophy at Cambridge University who is most notably known for his watchmaker argument that seeks to prove a theistic view of god. By relating a watch to the natural world he uses argument by analogy in order to prove the design argument, or the teleological argument, which concludes that god’s existence can be proven by the order, complexity, and apparent purposefulness, within the natural world. [Insert thesis] Paley’s watchmaker…

demolished group selection arguments there is still a need for mechanisms to show how actual observed cases of altruism, for example the female coalitions in the Langur case, or seeming altruism (nepotism) can emerge from methodological individualism (Dawkins 1976, ). In order to do so socio-biologists redefined what exactly an “altruist” is and therefore what an altruistic act is (Trivers 1971), and drew distinctions between such an act and nepotism directed at ones kin (Hamilton 1964).…

The second argument Dawkins makes is that religion and God create a false hope to all those who put their faith in it (Dawkins 2014). He believes religion in the face of God encourages people to believe in a higher being who oversees everything and plays are part in the lives of each person on earth (Dawkins 2014). God and religion also creates a false hope that there will be white gates waiting for the after death (Dawkins 2014). Dawkins believes that God is a being that controls and influences…

know something about… What is the meaning of memes? Meme is “ an idea that spread like a virus and it is trend now among youngsters” Meme is created and shared through social medias to entertain us. The term meme is coined by Richard Dawkins. First memes did not come in social medias, it came in the comic books first. Later youngsters like me who is so brilliant made that into meme… Top six memes…

Within the depths of Richard Dawkins’s The Selfish Gene, the author discusses the existence, or at least the idea of God, as a meme, important enough to last for thousands of years and spread across three separate religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Over the course of time, religions and supernatural deities have often come hand-in-hand, a sort of universal meme. In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins defines the meme as “a noun that conveys the ida of a unit of cultural transmission, or…

Richard Dawkins and John Lennox recently had a lively debate over what is arguably the most important questions of recent times. The following points formed the main arguments of each person's stand point. 1. RICHARD DAWKINS' MAIN ARGUMENTS [1] Dawkins says that he cannot comprehend that God, who can do anything, couldn't find a better way to forgive sin than to have Himself tortured and killed. He stated that believing in the resurrection of Christ was "petty and small-minded", because it goes…

“an indulgence of irrationality that is nourishing extremism, division and terror”; moreover, he likens it to a malignant virus infecting the human mind, just as Freud suggested the Christian belief upset the development of a sound mental state. Dawkins stated faith is dangerous because “it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness”; his main pieces of evidence for this were religiously motivated extremism and ‘hell houses’ run by Christian organisations. The Hell House…

Title; Richard Dawkins letter to his 10 year old daughter (how to warn your child about this irrational world) Claim: Richard Dawkins’ claim throughout the letter is the importance of evidence. He elaborates why it is important to not blindly believe something through authority, tradition,and revelation. The importance of deciphering who, why, and when a claim was made also if there is any evidence to further back up this claim. The point of this letter is to ensure that his daughter and the…