The infamous atheistic evolutionary RICHARD DAWKINS asks ....WHICH PART OF THE BIBLE ?
Richard Dawkins himself spoke out concerning those who believe the Word of God and at the same time believe in the evolutionary paradigm . I agree with Him and like Richard Dawkins asks ........." Which half of the Bible do you want to believe in ?"
The root of all evil? (broadcast on Channel 4, 16 January 2006)
Dawkins, The God Delusion, p. 253, Dawkins says .....
‘Oh but of course the story of Adam and Eve was only ever symbolic, wasn’t it? Symbolic?! Jesus had himself tortured and executed for a symbolic sin by a non-existent individual. Nobody not brought up in the faith could reach any verdict other than barking mad!’as well as viciously unpleasant.”
The moderates’ [liberals’] position seems to me to be fence-sitting. They half-believe in the Bible but how do they decide which parts to believe literally and which parts are just allegorical?’
It seems to me an odd proposition that we should adhere to some parts of the Bible story but not to others. After all, when it comes to important moral questions, by what standards do we cherry-pick the Bible? Why bother with the Bible at all if we have the ability to pick and choose from it, what is right and what is wrong?’
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Richard Dawkins :
“Think about it, Bishop. Be careful, Vicar. You are playing with dynamite,
fooling around with a misunderstanding that’s waiting to happen—one
might even say almost bound to happen if not forestalled. Shouldn’t you take
greater care, when speaking in public, to let your yea be yea and your nay be nay?
Lest ye fall into condemnation, shouldn’t you be going out of your way to
counter that already extremely widespread popular misunderstanding and lend active
and enthusiastic support to scientists and science teachers? The history-deniers
themselves are among those who I am trying to reach. But, perhaps more importantly,
I aspire to arm those who are not history-deniers but know some—perhaps members
of their own family or church—and find themselves inadequately prepared to
argue the case.”
Richard Dawkins , Greatest show on Earth Page 8 .
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Richard Dawkins :
“To return to the enlightened bishops and theologians, it would be nice if they’d put a bit more effort into combating the anti-scientific nonsense that they deplore. All too many preachers, while agreeing that evolution is true and Adam and Eve never existed, will then blithely go into the pulpit and make some moral or theological point about Adam and Eve in their sermons without once mentioning that, of course, Adam and Eve never actually existed! If challenged, they will protest that they intended a purely ‘symbolic’ meaning, perhaps something to do with ‘original sin’, or the virtues of innocence. They may add witheringly that, obviously, nobody would be so foolish as to take their words literally. But do their congregations know that? How is the person in the pew, or on the prayer-mat, supposed to know which bits of scripture to take literally, which symbolically? Is it really so easy for an uneducated churchgoer to guess? In all too many cases the answer is clearly no, and anybody could be forgiven for feeling confused.”
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Richard Dawkins :
“To return to the enlightened bishops and theologians, it would be nice if they’d put a bit more effort into combating the anti-scientific nonsense that they deplore. All too many preachers, while agreeing that evolution is true and Adam and Eve never existed, will then blithely go into the pulpit and make some moral or theological point about Adam and Eve in their sermons without once mentioning that, of course, Adam and Eve never actually existed! If challenged, they will protest that they intended a purely ‘symbolic’ meaning, perhaps something to do with ‘original sin’, or the virtues of innocence. They may add witheringly that, obviously, nobody would be so foolish as to take their words literally. But do their congregations know that? How is the person in the pew, or on the prayer-mat, supposed to know which bits of scripture to take literally, which symbolically? Is it really so easy for an uneducated churchgoer to guess? In all too many cases the answer is clearly no, and anybody could be forgiven for feeling confused.”
Greatest show on earth , page 7-8
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Richard Dawkins :
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Richard Dawkins :
“I am continually astonished by those theists who, far from having their consciousness
raised in the way that I propose, seem to rejoice in natural selection as ‘God’s
way of achieving his creation’.”
Dawkins, The God Delusion, p. 118.http://gen1rev22.blogspot.com/2011/07/say-no-to-two-in-bed.html
http://gen1rev22.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-was-taught-to-share-but-there-are.html
http://gen1rev22.blogspot.com/2012/02/truth-of-battle.html
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