How were the stones at Stonehenge transported and set up? A construction worker thinks he knows how. (Thanks to Uncle Orvis for the link.)
Steve Carper, in the Writer’s Bloc column of this month’s Bulletin of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, quotes The New York Times, quoting Richard Dawkins, who has a low opinion of fantasy:
Dawkins said, “I would like to know whether there’s any evidence that bringing children up to believe in spells and wizards and magic things turning into other things—it is unscientific, I think it is anti-scientific. Whether that has a pernicious effect, I don’t know.”
His book for children is to explore children’s relationships with fairy tales and to encourage them to think about the world scientifically rather than mythologically.
Atheists keep telling us that they live full and meaningful lives without God, but they keep coming up with sterile nonsense like this. And then they wonder why we’re repelled by their arguments.
“I am proud to announce that I have proven shoes unnecessary!” said the scientist, after cutting off both his feet.
That man has got the idea.
Perhaps an extra helping of fantasy would help Dawkins finish his sentences better. The fragmented sentence-oid that you quoted is exactly the kind of thing people used to pounce on Geo. W. Bush for.
“I am proud to announce that I have proven shoes unnecessary!”
Gold, sir. Pure gold.
Huh. And I’d always thought that Dawkins writing skills were what made him popular despite his unscientific narrow-mindedness and his utter ignorance of the details of how religion functions.
I’m amazed at the blinkered mindset of these self-styled brights.
When Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens or the like spout off something along the lines of “Well, if you believe in God, how do you explain Hitler, huh,” I wish someone present would slap themselves on the forehead and say “Wow! Nobody in all the history of Christendom has ever wrestled with the problem of evil. Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.”