Rosh Hashanah: Science vs Religion
Dawkins: Amen to that!
Religion and science are frequently set up as polar opposites; incompatible ways of thinking. The Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks begs to differ. For him, science and religion can, and should, work together. To mark Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, he puts his position to the test. He meets three non-believing scientists, each at the top of their field: neurologist Baroness Susan Greenfield, theoretical physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili, and the person best known for leading the scientific attack on religion, Professor Richard Dawkins. Will the Chief Rabbi succeed in convincing the militant defender of atheism that science and religion need not be at war?
Good luck on that….
As soon as he makes a testable claim he should be nailed on it!
Mr Sacks refused to answer the question, did Abraham really tie his son up ready to kill him? He also claimed that judaism states that parents do not own their children. Fine, then stop indoctrinating them and let them make up their own minds. Oh, and while we’re about it, as you don’t own them, you have no right to insist that their bodies be subjected to mutilation while they’re infants.
It is axiomatic that human beings, including children, own themselves. Therefore, parents do not and cannot own their children. It did not require the command of a fictitious entity, by way of a “seminar” given to a mythical character at the letter’s trussing of his son on an alter, to find this.
I’ve just been watching the Sacks/Dawkins BBC Re/Think piece. Mr sacks is a really nasty, horrible man. He doesn’t listen to what anyone else may be saying, he talks over everybody else refusing to allow them to have their say, he sets up strawman attacks and contributes nothing.
“Mr sacks is a really nasty, horrible man. He doesn’t listen to what anyone else may be saying, he talks over everybody else refusing to allow them to have their say, he sets up strawman attacks and contributes nothing.”
You mean a typical religious “debater”…?
Didn’t Sachs accuse Dr Dawkins of being “anti semitic” and a “christian atheist” ?
Christian atheist!!! How the hell does that work?
I remember seeing this programme a while back.
The Rabbi is the epitome of self righteousness – condescending to the max! – that is his only weapon. He is the kind of smug hypocrite who places the burden of proof on the non-believer.
The film was obviously edited to suit a wide audience and to keep it ‘upbeat’ and balanced. (I wouldn’t allow my granny to listen to Richard Dawkins at his best – hearing a bit of sobering truth would kill her!)