The section of interest starts at 12:30 where Dawkins is asked, “what would it take to make you believe in God.”
Short answer by Dawkins, “nothing”. He presumes if he saw a miracle it would be a hallucination or technologically advanced aliens. This is a change from his previous claim that his mind could be changed.
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NOTES
0. Dawkins response reminds me of some of the Darwinists at UD responding to questions about 500 fair coins. Even if they saw credible evidence of design, they’ll find a way to disbelieve it, whereas by contrast they’ll rush to accept the most flimsy explanation in defense of mindless evolution and mindless OOL.
1. Regarding hallucinations, HT selvaRajan for finding the answer to my question about a particular malady called Charles Bonet Syndrome.
2. For all our criticism of Dr. Dawkins, the man is quite charming. If charm were the sole mechanism for what truths I hold dear, I think I would have become a Dawkinist. I felt somewhat the same way watching Bill Nye and thinking how happy I was to sit in the classroom being taught science by my Darwinists professors. How seductive it is to be deluded to think the human mind can be the salvation for the human soul. I suppose I’m a believer today in ID and God because I came to the realization science and art for all their grandeur and majesty cannot cure the deepest needs of the human soul, and this need began my quest for evidence of God.
3. The opening 12 minutes was actually good, and when Dawkins was asked what is the best argument for God, he says, “fine tuning”, but then appeals to the multiverse as an explanation.
4. The rest of the interview after 12 minutes got boring quickly.
5. HT Mike Gene
How much more evidence do we need that Dawkins doesn’t care about discovering the truth? If he is willing to say that nothing would convince him GOD exists, he’s the most illogical and irrational man on the planet. How does he receive any respect in the academic world?!?!
SalC,
This is so sad, and sadly revealing.
It brings forcefully to mind the following from John Locke in the Introduction, section 5 to his Essay on human Understanding:
And, beyond, it brings to mind grim words from one of the underlying Scriptures in Locke’s thought, Rom 1:
Similarly, Jesus warned in a well known parable:
Let us pause, and think again.
KF
“He presumes if he saw a miracle it would be a hallucination”
And how does Dawkins, as an materialistic atheist, know that his belief in atheism is not itself a hallucination?
Myself, though at the time I really hated the situation I had somehow managed to put myself in, I am very grateful for low time(s) in my life where I was at a complete end of myself, with no place to turn, and ‘finally’, in such deep humility, turned to God and then, to my complete surprise, found that He was there for me. i.e. a ‘small miracle’ happened!
Please don’t call Dr Dawkins “charming”
Anyone who promotes legalizing the killing of newborn infants…….should get nothing but condemnation.
Luke 16 (English Standard Version):
[…]29 But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.
There’s a scripture that describes atheists as “supercilious”. Doing a little research, I find that supercilious is synonymous with disdainful pride and arrogance, or haughtiness. Haughtiness is the opposite of humility. The Greek and Hebrew words translated “haughty” and “haughtiness” have the basic meaning of causing oneself to appear “high,” “exalted,” “lofty,” “eminent.” One who is haughty is, in his own esteem, superior, lifted up above his fellowmen. As a result, such a person usually claims honor and attention beyond what is due and treats others with disrespect and insolence.
Atheistic disbelief, in some cases, appears to be a deliberate refusal to face the truth. The psalmist wrote: “The wicked one according to his superciliousness makes no search; all his ideas are: ‘There is no God.’”—Psalm 10:4.
Such a person who refuses to make an open-minded search of the evidence will never arrive at the truth. Dawkins might hold personal ideas about God, but proudly refuses to check to see whether or not they are correct.