'I Am Offended!' - Richard Dawkins @ UC Berkeley
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Richard Dawkins is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He was voted Britain's leading public intellectual by readers of Prospect magazine and was named one of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People" for 2007.
Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene", which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term "meme". He is a prominent critic of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book "The Blind Watchmaker", he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics.
Richard Dawkins is an atheist, secular humanist, sceptic, scientific rationalist, and supporter of the Brights movement. In his 2006 book "The God Delusion", he contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that faith qualifies as a delusion − as a fixed false belief.
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9 Years Later, the university has banned him for offensive content and hate-speech. I must say this has aged brilliantly
really?
Dawkins was disinvited from talking in a radio show in Berkeley in 2011. Nothing to do with the university.
Every hero has its dark side. There is not a single person that has invented or made science that didn’t do something messed up or had a messed up opinion. It only matters if everything you do sucks.
We should be offended by ALL forced circumcision.
True but one is much more horrific, damaging, and legitamately life-threatening than the other.
Thank you!
@@AmazingAutist Male babies die every year from that, so in that case "simple" cutting of a male was far worse than FGM. Many places in the world wait until their males are of age that they can remember, hold them down, and cut their penis up. There are so many complications that happen, and "accidents" that happen all the time. A cousin's friend's kid has to piss through a straw until they can get surgery later because the doctor "slipped" and cut half the head off and cut into the urethra.
Dont forget that FGM isnt always like whats pictured in the video. There are different "types", type 2 is cutting only the clitoral hood off. The penis/foreskin is just like the clitoris and clitoral hood, just different sizes. They grow from the same structure as a fetus and thats why up close the clitoris looks like a penis. Im sure parents that cut their male babies wouldnt be ok with female clitoral hoods being cut off.
How any of this isn't considered obvious is beyond me.
teppolundgren our beliefs are predicated upon our feelings, principles and personality. principles is what prohibits us from killing someone when we really want to. of course some people have principles based on propaganda which have led to many attrocities like the holocaust. remember its only obvious to you because of the things that prohibit you from believing it. things like principles founded in evidence and such.
Well, yes. But I'd have to presume that most of us who view this video,
live in the modern world, with access to the Internet (unless you're Chinese).
And if you have access to that, then you'd almost have to come from an
extremely fundamental background to remain unfazed or unaware of the
challenges that face your beliefs on a daily basis.
Thanks to the information age we live in, the world is shrinking.
People are connected to the entire world, no matter where they live,
which means that old-fashioned superstitions find it increasingly difficult
to stay alive, whereas rationality and scientific appreciation are flourishing
like never before.
That's why what Mr. Dawkins says ought to be obvious by now.
But is it? No, because there remains an anomaly called religion, which is
currently fighting for its life, tooth and nail. But give it a couple of generations,
and the world might finally witness human beings who value common sense
over myths and legends.
We're all going to die eventually, so it's about time we lose our fear of death
which has caused millennia of wishful thinking regarding an afterlife, and
start fucking getting on with the physically demonstrable life we have right now.
social conditioning can be a bitch.
Berkeley wouldn't let this speech fly now....
yea what the fuck happened here? It's amazing how much the political demographics have changed in Berkeley over the past several years
@Lu G. Berkeley is full of social justice warriors that are the epitome of apologists. Im very far left, but those students at Berkeley are just clowns. Lookup "Ben Shapiro Berkeley" and youll see he needed more security than a president lol.
Its fine if you point out genital mutilation or circumsicion with women but how about men as well. My entire country's medical community persuaded by Jewish doctors to circumcise new born boys is definitely a sign that our culture is primitively directed.
Yes they're both disgustingly immoral. Child abuse is child abuse.
No, it's a medical procedure to remove foreskin on the male penis, you dumbass.
Go right ahead, if you think you can. I live at 280 Preakness Drive, Lexington, KY. Come on over.
@@charlesnwarren You didn't get the point, badass
Science flies men to the moon..
Religion flies planes into buildings..
not my original quote but worth repeating I think..
+Patrick Ryan Science has questions that may never be answered
Religion has answers that may never be questioned
maverick buckley I don't think a joke is a good definition that sentence is designed to make people think about the difference between science and religion one is based on facts and evidence and one is based on faith without evidence
theprivateer83 and Christians have never committed any atrocities in the name of their God??
maverick buckley What about the Albigensian crusade in the 13th Century when the Jesuits under instruction from Pope Innocent the 3rd massacred every single Cathar in Northern Spain and Southern France just b/c they were a popular religion and therefore competition.. Christianity has always been a violent religion that massacres its rivals.. It is a continuation of the psychopathic roman empire after all.. It's just business in their eyes..
Patrick Ryan religions are analogous to a biological virus and the things they do to survive you might be interested in the book entitled The God virus by Darrel ray search for it on Amazon it's a very interesting read
You can see the emotion on his face with a lot of these points. It's so sad he sticks up for all of humanity and gets criticised by most of it.
I love coming home from work and listening to Richard Dawkins and Hitch's voice. It is like a nice cool breeze emanating from my computer. It is nice to hear rational people for once since my town is full of irrational Latino evangelicals. I actually met a Dominican atheist on the bus the other day. Refreshing indeed.
This happened at Berkley, imagine that.
Very interesting and informative. I don't consider myself an atheist, and yet, he makes some very valid points. While the mass majority of religious people wouldn't commit the types of atrocities he speaks of, I have experienced many such believers treating other humans horribly, in other, much more subtle ways. Homophobia comes to mind. People will do things to others, that they would never want done to themselves, yet they believe they MUST act in such a way, so as to follow the words of their religious book. Not hating on religious people. Being I grew up in the church, I can look back and see the very same behavior in myself. We need to listen to Richard's words and reflect on how some of us treat each other in the name of a God.
WHILE EVIL PEOPLE DO EVIL THINGS, IT TAKES RELIGION TO CAUSE OTHER WISE GOOD PEOPLE TO DO EVIL THINGS!
Just when I thought my non belief couldn't get any stronger along comes Richard Dawkins .
How far UC Berkeley has fallen.
Outstanding video. By the way, Richard Dawkins has stated in other interviews that he agrees that non-religious people should find common ground with moderately religious people in fighting against violent, intolerant religious people.
Makes sense! I have similar opinions.
we should be offended by male circomsition...
to be fair it's not nearly as atrotious as female circumcision which i'd say takes priority in our "hit list"
***** yeah circumcision isn't nearly as horrific as you think it is
***** are you circumcised?
cause i don't know of anyone who is (apart from those who were victim to a surgical error) who gives a shit they didn't get to choose
it's never bothered me that i am
course my observation could be different from the truth go ahead and correct me
***** yeah again female "circumcision" is far more horrific
and i'll still argue it's not a big deal if male circumcision is meant to ruin sex they are doing terrible job of it, i can assure you that much
as for barbaric well that's your opinion and i can't really say the jews are justified in doing circumcision though i don't see it as binding you to the religion some might and can understand that but i still don't see circumsion as a big deal
***** Oh i'm so damn upset i can't improve my already excellent situation
big fuckin deal
and i don't know what does one call anything
What's truly telling about this video, is that it couldn't be filmed today. In 2017, the students would shut this event down because it offends them. Less than a decade ago. It's a sad time indeed.
CREATOR I wish I had a professor like him when I was in college.
I like whiskey, fishing, and ridiculing religious bullshit.
Is that what you actually enjoy? That's fucking sick, thanks for sharing. I would only replace fishing with skateboarding.
NULIFIDIAN POS Why and which part do you find sick?
Ok Im old sorry I missed the meaning. Good stuff!
A long time since I heard that song by Ryan's Fancy.
Michael Henwood Yes!
UC Berkley didn't pay very close attention, evidently.
Him and Hitch shared the same sentiments...love this stuff..
in stead of female circumcision, he should say circumcision period
why? female circumcision is very different to male circumcision.
Cut the double standard first of all. Second, it is never ok to cut off genitles. You realize the babies can feel the circumcision. The foreskin holds about half the nerve endings in the penis. Not as bad doesn't work at all
Gavin Bain What the fuck is your problem? I am totally against all types of circumcision, I was just saying female circumcision is very different, so it's fine to specify female or male. The only exercise you do is jump to conclusions...
No? I said cut the double standards. How does that mean I have a problem? The problem I have is people cutting of body parts of infants.
mate, i got circumcision, if i didn't i would not be able to feel sex, so its importent
At last! Someone with common sense!
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lol superb - may I file that along with the equally superb "Hitchslap"
Richard : we should be offended by ..
Audience : clapping
I am offended by this 😐
What did Dick Cheney shout when the plane was ten miles out? "The order still stands!"
Tell it like it is, Dawkins!
im offended by 240p
I'm offended by 1080p. I have an old computer.
"I find you offensive for finding me offensive."
It's remains a frog silly..lol you guys are to funny!
today he'd get booed off the stage...because "microagressions" or whatever the fuck
Love this guy! I wonder if Religion was removed from the face of this planet... would we advance 10x faster? Less unnecessary killings? More rights for women?
I definitely believe it to be so.
*would we advance 10x faster?*
Yes. We'd be colonizing other planets by now.
Science and religion aren't somehow automatically mutually exclusive. There have been many religious scientists through history, and there still are.
Science will keep advancing whether there's religion or not. Religion is more of a spiritual fulfillment for an individual, to give them some kind of a purpose in life/a way of life and so forth, science is just the advancement of human knowledge and understanding of the world/universe we live in. Though, in some extreme cases, it could be indeed that for some people religion might be a partial "curiosity killer", such as that they won't even bother to question things because God/their holy book explains everything. Those cases can be quite bad indeed, because curiosity is the driving force in the advancement of science/human understanding.
Yes there is a connection of atheism and bad acts because if you dont believe in god then you will have no boundaries and you could do everything bad that you can imagine because you think that god is not watching you and that you won't be judged after you die. If you fear god then you will not even think of doing bad even if you could. E.g. Muhammed Ali refused to go to war even if it means going to jail because said he will never kill vietnams due to his religious beliefs. Religion is supposed to make you a better person but unfortunately some people try to hijack it and distort the image of religion by changing the scriptures, by hate speeches and by causing death and destruction.
I don't think he is advocating destroying religion.....
Nah. We’d still get fuckwits, who are followed by fuckwits, who make things bad for other fuckwits. In the end, we’re still all fuckwits :)
Very sorry to hear that.
I am offended by the fact that my guverment lies to me about everything.
there is a god wether you like it or not
his name is richard dawkins
+Ferry Den Brok Actually, I like the idea of a "god" who possesses no supernatural powers! And we don't have to turn our minds into pretzels by using sheer willpower to trick ourselves into believing he exists. I know many honest, reliable, and intelligent people who met Richard Dawkins at the same conference in Buffalo a few months ago! Don't know anyone who can same the same thing about a supernatural god.
+Ferry Den Brok . . . .I thought *HER* name was Haruhi Suzumiya. :P
+Ferry Den Brok
The problem is that he seems to focus a bit too much on islam and christianity... He should try to expose the bullshit of the...other monotheist religion. But it's dangerous, I know.
How dare you defy the one true god.
THE SPAGHETTI MONSTER!
I idolize no one to a god level, thanks.
What?...you're offended by Dawkins?
- and NOW I'm offended by you being OFFENDED !
14neutrol The ironic thing about this comment is that if you knew what he was actually saying you would agree with it almost 100% , instead you miss his point and try to make fun of someone who is saying the same thing you are. Quite ironic.
Edit spelling
I think he was kidding.
Thank You.
yes i gotta agree with you there,watched my 3year old brother die in my arms,prayed he still died, but i understand now all these years later.
I don't see the point of being offended. Either the offender is incorrect and you explain why they're wrong, or you're wrong and you should seek to correct yourself. Being offended seems more a response portraying that "I know you're right, but I don't care"
Alex Nightingale being offended is a feeling and you cannot control feelings. You just can't act on them because they are personal to you. That is the point. Truth is also personal so you might be offended but that doesn't mean it is a true offense.
There is no morality in Islam.
There is no morality in any type of Religion!
I have watched a lot of Dawkins. This is one of the best. This needs more views!
+x1plus1x thanks. I am Richard Dawkins.
I am, too. Thanks.
What ever this man says is gold.
I had a multi variable calculus final in that same room last spring. I wish I was there to see Dawkins instead.
I almost took their side. I almost fell for it. What pulled me back ? Was I felt condemnation on my heart. My very soul was arguing. Telling me I know better. I came back and Iv'e been going back to church.And boy did I ever repent ..Lol. Living for this world , only brings you to a certain understanding, Believing in your spirit connects you to God. They want God to be proven with scientific evidence. We both know God needs to be found with a humble heart and an open mind.
just recently became a fan of college football...previously, i focused in key players, bowls, drafts, heisman...now i follow the season...haven't really picked 1 team...maybe because it is painful enough to suffer in the nfl. i very much like the heart of alabama...the toughness and tenacity of nebraska...the tradition and quality of the longhorns...and deep respect for air force, navy, army...
We should be devastated about how many die from prescription drugs and medical malpractice, which is an unbelievable amount. If this happened in aviation all planes would be grounded, but in the name of science it continues and the sad thing is most people don't know it's happening!
By the way, Hitler was FAR from a vegetarian. One of his favorite dishes was stuffed squab/ PIGEON (bird). He also beat his dog so he wasn’t even an animal lover.
We should be offended by ANY circumcision, performed for 'religious' reasons, esp on infants who have no chance to refuse.
He couldnt say that in this lecture because it is at a college in USA. Even though this is in California where most kids are left alone. This DEFINITELY coudln't be mentioned if in an Ivy league university. There is a famous speech (which was approved) against cutting babies for no medical reason, and he was fired because it angered the alumni donors.
wow, actual references on a youtube post. Thank god people like you are living and breathing. I really appreciate that information.
Because of its intolerance toward conservatives, a resume that lists a degree from Berkeley is likely to get thrown straight into the trash by employers these days.
Little did he know in the future everyone would be offended at everything :D
To be thurough, the 4 laws of thermodynamics follow:
0th law: if two otherwise isolated systems are in equilibrium with a 3rd, all 3 in thermal equilibrium
1st law: heat and work are forms of energy transfer: baring energy transfer out of a system, total energy never changes
2nd law: a completely closed system always evolves towards thermal equilibrium (aka. entropy always has a net increase until equilibrium is reached)
3rd law: a system at absolute zero moves towards a constant entropy.
Why should I be offended? No doubt people are offended if they think I should be! Lol!😊
Thank you Mr. Dawkins.
I'm offended to be a human sharing the earth with the brainwashed oblivious. Amen.
Sorry to hear about the loss of your brother. I have lost a sister 2 years ago. She was a sweetheart. I have lost several men in combat and some dear to me but that is a part of life we don't understand. Why good people suffer and die while vile and pure trash keep on doing evil and seemingly with no impunity. But like the sage once said, "there's a pay day some day" and their judgement neither sleeps nor slumbers but is set and will be brought to fruition.
We don't understand the mind
cont:
Once again, simply proving my point.
Your insight is remarkable.
And that would be the last time anyone was ever offended at Berkeley.....
:D
Beautiful 👍
Ive never seen so many offended people in an atheist comment section before 😂 Guys, this speech was good, chill!
You are free to believe what you want. My parents and siblings are still Christians. I can't force them to stop believing. I believe that a person must look for the truth by reasoning and using logic.
"Whether or not Hitler was Roman Catholic"
He was baptized as a Roman Catholic & the church never excommunicated him, so by the church's tenets he was a Roman catholic.
Except by your logic, most atheists are still catholic, Protestant, etc. You are being inconsistent.
@@tjones5719 Not if the atheist renounces whatever religion they once were.
Also, in most religions that have christenings or baptisms, they are performed when the person being baptized or christened are babies, with no input into whether they want to be baptized or christened.
For example, if the baby is being christened in a Catholic church, it is the parents saying the child is Catholic, NOT the child saying it.
No different than a father who is a fan of a particular sports team putting a shirt or cap with the team logo on their infant son.
He was also revered and fully supported in Ireland - the land of the religious hypocrites - to such an extent they 'opted out' of WW2 and even sent Germany condolence messages when he died!
Being offended is taking something personally. I don’t agree with much of what RD asks me to be offended at,but I’m not offended, as I don’t take these acts personally. Iam not a victim.
My how times have changed.....
I am amazed to see large number of "offended" souls in the comments section here
Richard Dawkins "i hate you all, get the fuck out of here..." crowd claps, goes wild, whistles, whoops and hollers.
Freedom of speech should include the licence to offend.
I understand, it's completely applicable to this debate.
I am a Christian, and respect everyone's view on things. Although I would like to theorize that even if religion was removed, that wouldn't remove war. Intolerance will sadly always exist. I don't mean to cause a fuss, although some will see it that way. I have read many comments, and many of you seem to be really intelligent, which gives me hope that the human race isn't completely doomed to stupidity.
Yes, I think Dawkins fails to understand that other ideologies can be just as dogmatic and intolerant.
***** Agree, religion has been widely used during thousands of years for brain wash and to promote lack of guilty for disgusting acts. I agree with Dawkins in many things, as to promote education and that anyone builts is own opinion, without external influences (priest, scientist and especially parents). In my opinion religion should be forbidden to childs, people should start to investigate about religion, science and philosophy until they have enough maturity to rise a personal opinion. My concern is the people that take atheism as a medium to promote selfishness or the people that transform atheism in a great businnes, is that follows in that way atheism will become a very bad thing and actually will be similar to a religion or sect.
Jymmi Pach I see that there is a risk that atheists start to build in other beliefs or opinions (like Atheism+), however, I don't think that such a simple word will ever shift in meaning and be defined as something like a religion. If that happens, a large group of people will feel that they don't identify with that and create a new word that means what atheism means today. My point is that the people who call themselves atheists don't share much more than the lack of belief in gods.
Lucas Goad Religion is the means by which most of those things are justified, but not the actual cause. There is probably some small amount of people who are psychologically damaged by religion, and do things they otherwise wouldn't do. But most are just doing what they already want to do.
+Lucas Goad Real world statistics and observations clearly point out that religion is not a road to healthier societies and quality of life:
The level of atheism throughout the rest of the developed world refutes any argument that religion is somehow a moral necessity, Countries like Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on Earth. According to the United Nations’ Human Development Report (2005) they are also the healthiest, as indicated by measures of life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate and infant mortality. Conversely, the 50 nations now ranked lowest in terms of human development are unwaveringly religious. Other analyses paint the same picture: The United States is unique among wealthy democracies in its level of religious literalism and opposition to evolutionary theory; it is also uniquely beleaguered by high rates of homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, STD infection and infant mortality. The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious superstition and hostility to evolutionary theory, are especially plagued by the above indicators of societal dysfunction, while the comparatively secular states of the Northeast conform to European norms. Of course, correlational data of this sort do not resolve questions of causality--belief in God may lead to societal dysfunction; societal dysfunction may foster a belief in God; each factor may enable the other; or both may spring from some deeper source of mischief. Leaving aside the issue of cause and effect, these facts prove that atheism is perfectly compatible with the basic aspirations of a civil society; they also prove, conclusively, that religious faith does nothing to ensure a society’s health.
Same thing came into my mind also.
Easy to understand
Red Baron:
Where is your proof that you are in control instead of out of control?
Just believe.In what you need too, to behave in a civil manner.
I think it's safe to assume Prof. Dawkins would condemn that too.
God spoke to me.
He told me that all religion is wicked mendacious manipulation.
And to seek professional help regarding my hallucinations.
Further proving my point.
"so should his comment was bad and he should feel bad" good job.
Adolph Hitler was respected by all his adversaries but I'm sure not one of them liked or agreed with him. "Recognition" is the key definition of respect here. Thank you for enlightening me a little on this YEC perspective. I know no more of it than you expounded here.
2) The 'modern' bible didn't even exist until the council of Nicea in 325 A.D. They selected the books they wanted and 'discarded' others which conflicted with their doctrine. Early Christian canon consisted of approximately 600 books. It was reduced to 80 by 1611 for the 'King James Translation'. A further 14 books were discarded subsequent to the Protestant Reformation which left 66 books remaining for the official 'King James Bible'.
(continued)
The most important thing is this- that all subjects of Her Majesty the Queen, whether religious or not,
Richard Dawkins is a true hero.
3) According to Mithraism, before Mithra died on a cross, he celebrated a “Last Supper with his twelve disciples, who represented the twelve signs of the zodiac.
4) After the death of Mithra, his body was laid to rest in a rock tomb.
5) Mithra had a celibate priesthood.
6) Mithra ascended into heaven during the spring (Passover) equinox (the time when the sun crosses the equator making night and day of equal length).
Obviously just the four Gospels and a little out of Acts for two, but like I mentioned, go to skeptics annotated Bible and it points out 473 contradictions, and what I mentioned are three of them.
If you go to the wiki article, Gospel harmony, you'll also see all the areas where the Gospels match up or don't match up.
Nativity is only in two of them, not in Mark, and Mark is the oldest and shortest showing how the story expanded over time.
I bet you can explain....but it would be grey noise.
1. Carbon 14 is not normally used in dating rocks, because the half-life is just over 5000 years, so if you think that it is millions of years old, then there should be no carbon 14 left and so usually a different isotope is used like U to Pb or Be to Li. If there is any Carbon 14 in a rock it would indicate a very 'young rock' like the coal and diamonds mentioned in the link in my previous reply which you didn't read. So Carbon 14 in these items indicates a very young age.
If you express your opinion, especially when you say something that really needs to be said, in fact the more important is it that it be said, the more likely it is to be offended.
This doesn't mean we should go out and try to offend people. We should try to say it politely when we can. But we should not be afraid of offending people.
And I agree with Richard Dawkins in everything he said in this clip, and I pretty much agree with the full lecture which I have seen.
An offence is a hurt. If I’m not hurt, was I offended when someone gave me a blank look, or when an important email wasnt replied to, or when my grammar ain’t good!?😊
A Celebrity 'biologist' and freemason named Richard Dawkins was asked "Can you give one example of a mutation that has led to an increase in genetic complexity? Richards Dawkins responds "could you turn the camera off please"
Oh dear!
The fuck you on about bro?
I'm more than happy to pray for you mate
I agree completely. My parents told me I cried all night after I was circumcised.
inconvenient to clean, so let's just chop it off. Makes perfect sense!
1. The few things that I found were about faith based on works, and faith alone. That seems to be the major shift in what people think Paul and James disagree on. However....James is not saying you have to do good works for salvation, rather that salvation will change a person and they will do good works.
2. Acts 21:24. Also relation, God overruled both their advice and Paul's compliance with it, to serve a better purpose than was intended.
Good for you Dawkins. Now take a number and go to the back of the line of people who can't prove us wrong.
Before proceeding, i want to clarify. Please keep in mind that believing in the possibility of God doesnt mean one automatically belongs to a religion. Also, to clarify, I believe in science, all my degrees are in science
Yes i am an Atheists to those Gods. However I find sociologists fail to discern the marked difference between pagan faiths n ones claimed to be Divinely revealed. Once u study both u can see why it's easy to dismiss gods such as Odin, Wutan n the Juju on the mountain (dawkins)
I am not a creationist but have exceptionally high regard for creation. Evolution requires great respect and intense study till satisfaction or disillusion. Creation also requires intense study until accepted or dismissed. I am non religious.
In doing so, they have overlooked the fact that the high priests, priestesses n oracles found among the ancient mythical cults are recognized within an already established temple and never claimed to have received a new code of life based on revelation. Likewise the validity of their claims were never put to question because their authority was traditionally handed down to them by their predecessors and was accepted as such by the society, so were free to concoct gimmicks in their support.
Hear, hear, Richard!
Religion is extremely offensive, and any thinking person should be offended by it!
War against Darkness. War against sin... war against staying willfully ignorant and living for earthly treasures. Not literal war and suffering.
Thank you, I appreciate your input. So far as I am aware, there has never been an organised religion without corruption (including the disciples). This makes me wonder a little weather Jesus requires us to attend churches, temples etc. What do you think?
I agree, in a debatable fashion, science in itself could be considered a religion if we rely solely on the dictionary. However, many dictionaries also classified the word "Atheist" as one who denies the existence of a supreme being (or deity), so to say the term "Atheist" doesn't define us according to the dictionary is in itself a self-disproving statement.
9) Atomic Theory, Theory of Matter and Energy, Cell Theory, Germ Theory, Theory of Plate Tectonics, Theory of Evolution, Theory of Quantum Mechanics, Theory of Relativity, Theory of Light Energy, Theory of Electromagnetism, Theory of Radioactivity, Theory of Molecular Bonds, Theory of Homeostasis, Theory of Gravity, etc..
Which of these other theories (which also describe FACTS) have you investigated and disproven? Maybe radioactivity? Perhaps electromagnetism? How about gravity?