Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins may best be known for his contempt for religion of all kinds. From my point of view as a Christian, every person has been granted free will and moral agency - so Dawkins has the right and the freedom to believe what he chooses.
Combative, confident, intelligent, arrogant, he's pretty successful at discouraging faith.
He famously said, "It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane . . ." He couldn't mean evolution as simple change over time (like how finch beaks change shape in response to weather change) - because no one debates that. He is referring to skeptics of the far bigger claim that evolution and natural selection brought about all life forms that have ever existed.
So . . if I or a Christian scientist believe God rather than evolution created all life on earth . . we are ignorant, stupid, or insane. Right?
(cont'd tomorrow)
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