Oxford professor Richard Dawkins speaks about Children here.
“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”
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May 24, 2007 by Ilana Payes
Oxford professor Richard Dawkins speaks about Children here.
“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”
This is true. Science has out the power of the stars in our hands–and that power is a seductive, blinding one. But I do not think the comparison is fair: science does not, in general, claim for itself the status of a moral guide book. I’m not sure what “building up” means—but I am inclined to think that very little good can come of believing what is false.
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