Dawkins and militant atheism

I pity Richard Dawkins. For all his obvious intellect and achievements, he “lacks one thing.”

He entertains no basis for creationism under any circumstances, and a “give no quarter, take no prisoners” attitude. He knows the day he allows any logical position he’ll release an unstoppable flood of evidence.

Through decades of evolution training in public schools, the good doctor admits failure to reach 40 percent (most say a clear majority). If they’ve not been “exposed to the evidence,” when will this occur?

Evolutionists also “lump prehistoric man into ape or human category.” Darwin and many modern paleontologists have insisted that the fossil record Dawkins abandons is critical to understanding evolution. Some have recognized that evolution can’t always be occurring somewhere else, because it’s not in their evidence. Neanderthal and other data are today recognized as human.

I’m reminded of the guy who determined his warning light was the problem and promptly smashed it with a hammer.

A certain Christian, a professor at Virginia Tech., braced the classroom door with his body and ordered his students to jump two floors to relative safety. He was shot to death through the door, and his students survived. What motivates such an act?
Though Dawkins might perform such a self-sacrificing act, it won’t be due to “militant atheism.” In a foxhole, everyone prays.

Atheism is silent on what is good or bad. I can be a good person and an atheist, but I won’t be good because of atheism, rather in spite of it. Atheism is neither good nor bad and cannot influence a person either direction.

When a missionary goes to an isolated people he is prepared to give food, health care, love; learn a new culture and language; translate and create a written form; educate them about healthy habits, ways to feed themselves, reading and math skills; and finally give hope to the hopeless with the Christian message. Atheists can do some of this, but atheism can’t – it was never intended to.

Dawkins has blinded himself to half of reality. He deserves our pity.

David House, IU staff member