Originally Posted by MauriceColgan

Thanks LamportsEdge.

Unwavering logic is our best route.

Contrary mary is funny and rather entertaining. She may inspire us?

We just have to love haters and those attempting to discredit a world renowned author dealing in truth.

But as Elvis beautifully put it. "Don't Be Cruel". The Dawkins mockers know not what they do.

Maurice: You confuse logic with reductionism and science with utilitarianism.
I am glad you are now calling him an author and not a scientist. He is a successful author, not a scientist.

You keep admiring him and Elvis just as your grandchildren admire their kiddy bands and kiddy heroes.

Originally Posted by mary_queen_of_the_gael

Maurice: You confuse logic with reductionism and science with utilitarianism.
I am glad you are now calling him an author and not a scientist. He is a successful author, not a scientist.

You keep admiring him and Elvis just as your grandchildren admire their kiddy bands and kiddy heroes.

And my great grandchildren? Ludwig Van Beethoven?

It's not wise to underestimate a person you hardly know. But you are, contrary mary. Therefore I'll forgive you your sins.

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins sold more than 2 million copies, just as hotels stop including the Bible in their bedside drawers.
Why is that?

What I admire is tangible. What you admire is impossible.

Originally Posted by MauriceColgan

What I admire is tangible. .

You admire the excrement written by Dawkins.

It is tangible and has been flushed away long ago into the common sewers.



Can you find something more elevated Maurice to admire instead of moaning away with your incessant drivel about crashing bore Dawkins?

Originally Posted by The Field Marshal

You admire the excrement written by Dawkins.

It is tangible and has been flushed away long ago into the common sewers.



Can you find something more elevated Maurice to admire instead of moaning away with your incessant drivel about crashing bore Dawkins?

Yes I will mention Daniel Barenboim the great classical pianist, conductor and brilliant Beethoven scholar.
Although Jewish. I think he is an atheist. He has to be.

Originally Posted by The Field Marshal

You admire the excrement written by Dawkins.

It is tangible and has been flushed away long ago into the common sewers.
Can you find something more elevated Maurice to admire instead of moaning away with your incessant drivel about crashing bore Dawkins?

I think you are being unfair to Dawkins. He has a handy number, he writes reasonably well (bit of the Eamonn Dunphy style). Maurice Colgan has nothing to say or add, so he repeats the same mantra that God aka Dawkins is great. Nothing new here and certainly no insights at all. Talk about being blinded by the light or whatever rhymes with it.
Maurice is not a serious character. He should really stay to his gardening.

Originally Posted by mary_queen_of_the_gael

I think you are being unfair to Dawkins. He has a handy number, he writes reasonably well (bit of the Eamonn Dunphy style). Maurice Colgan has nothing to say or add, so he repeats the same mantra that God aka Dawkins is great. Nothing new here and certainly no insights at all. Talk about being blinded by the light or whatever rhymes with it.
Maurice is not a serious character. He should really stay to his gardening.

Maurice is generous enough to find your rantings on this thread amusing. I just find them empty of anything apart from venom.

Originally Posted by mary_queen_of_the_gael

I think you are being unfair to Dawkins. He has a handy number, he writes reasonably well (bit of the Eamonn Dunphy style). Maurice Colgan has nothing to say or add, so he repeats the same mantra that God aka Dawkins is great. Nothing new here and certainly no insights at all. Talk about being blinded by the light or whatever rhymes with it.
Maurice is not a serious character. He should really stay to his gardening.

I note he quoted Daniel Barenboim [despite his Jewishness] as somebody to admire on the basis that a great classical pianist, conductor and brilliant Beethoven scholar just had to be an atheist.

It must therefor be really horrible for poor Maurice having to listen to any classical music since the best of it was all composed by catholic composers and the bulk of it by Christian composers and God believers.

I dont think Maurice listens to classical music on any voluntary basis and probably turns it off immediately he hears it since its not composed by atheists.

Originally Posted by MauriceColgan

Yes I will mention Daniel Barenboim the great classical pianist, conductor and brilliant Beethoven scholar.
Although Jewish. I think he is an atheist. He has to be.

Originally Posted by Toland

Maurice is generous enough to find your rantings on this thread amusing. I just find them empty of anything apart from venom.

You would of course find a statement generous that great classical pianists,conductors although Jewish just had to be atheists.




Sigh : The sheer levels of desperation from unbelievers just gets worse everyday.

Originally Posted by Toland

Maurice is generous enough to find your rantings on this thread amusing. I just find them empty of anything apart from venom.

That is very decent of him, is it not? Do you think much of the utilitarian cult Dawkins' show was about last night? Can you point to any contribution Mr Dawkins has made to science? No? He is just a TV presenter and a very successful author and self promoter. Not much there to get worked up about, except he poisons and stifles minds.

Maurice Colgan is incapable of bringing anything new to the thread about Dawkins for the simple reason there is nothing to bring. Ripping off Singer seems a bit desperate. Richer veins must need a rest. Maurice is simply bumping this thread about a quasi academic who, like our own David Norris not only found his crock of gold but was helped to find and mine it.

Originally Posted by The Field Marshal

I note he quoted Daniel Barenboim [despite his Jewishness] as somebody to admire on the basis that a great classical pianist, conductor and brilliant Beethoven scholar just had to be an atheist.

It must therefor be really horrible for poor Maurice having to listen to any classical music since the best of it was all composed by catholic composers and the bulk of it by Christian composers and God believers.

I dont think Maurice listens to classical music on any voluntary basis and probably turns it off immediately he hears it since its not composed by atheists.

I caught him out on Dostoyevski before but who knows? When scores are taken out of their (religious) setting, they obviously lose something. Still, Dawkins is generous enough to allow a space in English literature for them. He should begin with his own failed university which has nothing to offer but his own hot air, which keeps him in clover but does nothing for his young charges.

Stalin's "architects of the soul" comes to mind.