ATHEIST VERBAL ABUSE.
The following quote is from Scientific American (magazine/journal), special edition. Winter 2017 to 2018. The Science Behind The Debates. Article:- Should Science Speak To Faith? (A Discussion Between Lawrence M. Krauss and Richard Dawkins)
Dawkins:-“I once wrote in a New York Times book review – 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 (OR WICKED - - - - -) That sentence has been quoted again and again in support of the view that I am a bigoted, intolerant, close-minded, intemperate ranter. (MY comment:- No! No! No! No one could ever possibly think that!) But you know in your heart that it is a simple, sober statement of fact.”
Here is a further Dawkins quote from the internet – BrainyQuote.com
“Faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of MENTAL ILLNESS.”
Here are some more Richard Dawkins quotes – this time from Dawkin’s review of Richard Milton’s book The Facts of Life. Shattering The Myths of Darwinism. This review was published in New Statesman (magazine), London, 28th August, 1992:-
“Every day I get letters - - - from young earthers - - -astrologers and other harmless FRUITCAKES - - - this book is approximately as SILLY - - PSEUDOSCIENCE THAT THEY KNOW IS RUBBISH - - - THIS UNQUALIFIED HACK - - - COMPLETE AND TOTAL PIG IGNORANCE - - - NEEDS PSYCHIATRIC HELP - - - MILTON AN UNTRAINED AMATEUR - - - DISINGENUOUS or more plausibly STUPID - - this sort of SILLY SEASON DRIVEL - - - ” (My capitals.)
(My comment:- Richard Milton’s book was well researched and informative. He makes some very good points in the book. Dawkins’ review of this book fails to answer any of the points that Milton raises. I would protest that it is a very unfair review, except for the fact that it is “par for the course”; and that one EXPECTS this kind of language from people who support The Atheist/Darwinian Ideology.
“FRUITCAKES”!!!!!!?????????? “PIG IGNORANCE”!!!!!!????????
“NEEDS PSYCHIATRIC HELP”!!!!!???????
This is not the language of science. This is the language of ideology. When you see language of this kind, you know that you are no longer dealing with science, but with pseudoscience. Real science deals in the currency of reasoned argument and discussion, not verbal abuse and vilification.)
The next quotes are from the book God Is Not Great. How Religion Poisons Everything, by Christopher Hitchens, published by McClelland and Stewart, 2007
Page 78:-“ - - - - creationist STUPIDITY - - - “
Page 81:- “ - - - the latest FOOLISHNESS contrived by the faithful - - -“
Pages 84 to 85:- “ - - - the STUPID notion of Intelligent Design - - - “
Pages 86 to 87:- “Intelligent Design - - - in all its well-financed propaganda - - - dissolves into PUERILE tautology - - - PIFFLE - - - MUMBO-JUMBO - - - - The non-theory of irreducible complexity is a joke.”
Page 89:- “This was wishful PIFFLE.”
Page 249:- “ - - - - - The Intelligent Design RACKET - - - - Jonathan Wells, the author of a LAUGHABLE anti-evolutionist diatribe entitled The Icons of Evolution - - - Mr Wells’ book is unlikely even to rate a footnote in THE HISTORY OF PIFFLE.”
(My comment:- Jonathan Wells’ book The Icons of Evolution makes some very good points, and is extremely informative. I can warmly recommend this book. It is a carefully researched work of science. Jonathan Wells has a Ph.D. In Molecular and Cellular Biology from Berkeley)
The next quote comes from the book Uncommon Dissent, edited by William Dembski, published by ISI Books, 2004. Essay:- The Deniable Darwin, by David Berlinsky (Berlinski was a research assistant in molecular biology at Columbia University and was a research fellow at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in France.), pages 263 to 306:-
Page 290 Daniel C. Dennett (As of 2017, he is the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University.) criticizes Berlinsky’s essay:-“”You can publish bull - - t at will - - - such inspired SILLINESS - - - betraying his CLUELESSNESS.”
(My comment:- Dennett does not even attempt to actually refute any of Berliski’s points. He simply engages in a tirade of verbal abuse.)
The next quote is from the same book – The Introduction by William Dembski, page xviii:- “In (the book) Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, Daniel Dennett views religious believers who dissuade their children from believing Darwinian evolution as such a threat to the social order that they need TO BE CAGED IN ZOOS.” (My capitals,)
The next quotes are from the book The New Atheism, by Stephen Le Drew (Post-Doctoral Fellow at Uppsala University), published by Oxford University Press, 2016:-
Page 45:- “Dawkins - - - has joined a growing chorus of xenophobia and ethnic nationalism in Europe, tweeting endlessly about “Muslim barbarians”.”
Pages 69 to 70:- “(Sam) Harris suggests that religious belief may be indicative of a DEFECT IN BRAIN FUNCTION - - - - Harris goes as far as to equate faith - - - - with MENTAL ILLNESS - - - Social and cultural reasons for believing are not explored.”
Page 71:- “(Richard Dawkins refers to) “Those FAITH SUFFERERS.”
Page 77:- “Dawkins revealed in a tweet, on March 13th, 2013, that he had never read The Koran; and in the next sentence he referred to Islam as “The greatest force for evil today”.”
Page 181:- “Richard Dawkins’ - - -frequently stated view that religious socialization is a form of CHILD ABUSE - - - - Further Dawkins suggests that, if religion does indeed constitute child abuse, then the state would have a duty to protect children from it, which might include TAKING CUSTODY OF THEM TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM IT.”
The next quotes are from the book Kicking The Sacred Cow, by James P. Hogan, published by Baen, 2004:-
Page 9:- The author provides a verbatim quote from Richard Dawkins:- “Faith is one of the world’s great evils, COMPARABLE TO THE SMALLPOX VIRUS - - - ”
Page 16:- The author quotes Daniel Dennett (As of 2017, Dennett is the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University.):- “Anyone who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply IGNORANT – INEXCUSABLY IGNORANT.” The author continues “Dennett also expresses reservations about the suitability of anyone denying Darwinism to raise children,”
(My comment:- Perhaps a “gulag” of concentration-camp-style “orphanages” could be set up to “house” and “re-educate” the children of dissenters from The Atheist/Darwinian ideology. The problem is that such a “gulag” would have to cover millions of square miles, so many “recipients” of the “re-education” would there be.)
If the proponents of The Atheist/Darwinian Hypothesis/Ideology cannot do better than this, they do not deserve to be taken seriously. If they prefer tirades of verbal abuse to reasoned argument, then we cannot consider their argument as being serious science. If coercion and reprisals are required to spread their philosophy, then how can we trust them? If they are prepared to deliberately lie, bend the truth, obfuscate, vilify, and bluster, and behave essentially like Stalinists or Nazis, then this can only mirror the bankruptcy of their philosophy. The only way to deal with the playground bullies is to stand up to them. The only question is:- Does the scientific community have the stomach for it?