The Attenborough Mystery (The atheist delusion)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Tuesday, February 03, 2009, 19:05 (5770 days ago) @ George Jelliss

By coincidence there is an interview with Ian McEwan the novelist that has just appeared on Richard Dawkins' site, in which very early on he mentions phlogiston in the same way that I did in my previous post above. - http://richarddawkins.net/article,3573,Uncut-Interview-with-Ian-McEwan---Root-of-All-Ev... - He also has similar views to me about the negativity of the word "atheist", though I'm quite happy to use it, probably because I'm not so sensitive about upsetting theists. I agree with most of what he says in this quite long interview, though not with the view that we are all naturally empathic, nor that humans have an inbuilt need for religion. - For instance, I couldn't forbear to grin when I saw a drunk fall over in the snow yesterday. Though it could easily have been me, falling over that is, not drunk. And had I been at a lunch with the Archbishop of Canterbury I wouldn't have talked poetry with him!

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GPJ