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Richard Dawkins: The Magic of Reality

I've heard very little from Richard Dawkins that make me believe that he's qualified to teach children (or anyone for that matter) about the nature of reality. He has many a bias and presuppositions that makes very little sense in light of what can plainly be known of the real world. Not all scientists agree with his conclusions and it's strange to me how he claims to be rational yet denies even the possibility of reality being designed because of the theistic conclusions it draws.




I have no problem with children seeing Dawkins views but I also think they should see the following video




I am wondering if he is really qualified to answer questions like:
What is a miracle?
What is magic?

I mean in the video, he seems to think that "Supernatural miracles" like Jesus turning water into wine as being on the same level as unicorns and fairies. News flash: They are not the same thing.

Richard Dawkins: The Magic of Reality

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Richard Dawkins Elucidates, Yet Again, Why He Will Not Debate William Lane Craig | True Freethinker

I thank Mariano for posting this. I've heard of this incident but now the video is available.


Translation: "I'm Chicken!!!"
Richard Dawkins Elucidates, Yet Again, Why He Will Not Debate William Lane Craig | True Freethinker

Positive Atheism's Big List of Richard Dawkins Quotations part 1

Richard Dawkins via last.fm

This is first in a series of blog posts where I would like to take a quotation of  Richard Dawkins and examine it. What I hope to do is stir discussion. If anyone think i'm being unfair or taking something out of context, they can correct me in the comments. The quotes will come from the following link and in no particular order:

Positive Atheism's Big List of Richard Dawkins Quotations

What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely the kind of information that can be translated digit for digit, byte for byte, into any other kind of information and then translated back again. This is a major revolution. I suppose it's probably "the" major revolution in the whole history of our understanding of ourselves. It's something would have boggled the mind of Darwin, and Darwin would have loved it, I'm absolutely sure.
-- Richard Dawkins, Life: A Gene-Centric View Craig Venter & Richard Dawkins: A Conversation in Munich (Moderator: John Brockman) "This event was a continuation of the Edge 'Life: What a Concept!' meeting in August, 2008." [sic]

I like this. I think Dawkins does understand how truly revolutionary genetics truly is. What amazes me is how much like our digital technology is but on a much more complex level. My question is...where does it come from?  Dawkins believe that it was natural process of evolution...blind and unguided. How? It's like saying Windows 7 evolved from Windows 3.11 tom Windows 95 to Windows 98 to Windows 2000 to Windows XP (Millennium and Vista being dead ends). Does that make sense? Or how about the evolution form 8 bit Nintendo to the Wii? Code does not write itself.