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Originally Posted by Angela 
Speaking of biased judgements: You get all up-in-arms about others' prejudices, but I'd like to point out you've done exactly that about "Unweaving the Rainbow" with your statement: "But again, Dawkins I think, is trying set up a false, polarized argument and also making science the God of all things. As I said he's preaching his own 'religion'".
It sounds to me like Dawkins is harmonizing science and poetry, not polarizing them:
In Dawkins's world (and, he hopes, in ours), science is poetry; he ends his journey by referring to his title's author and subject, maintaining that "A Keats and a Newton, listening to each other, might hear the galaxies sing."
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radicals seek to destroy society and rebuild it in their image. Again, based on the quote he's setting up a false argument. As i have said he willfully distorts history - and grossly - to achieve an agenda. He's doing the same thing here. Dawkins is pretending such harmonies never existed, then offering a Dawkins solution. ...including, according to the review , Dawkins explanations for spirtuality of Blake and Yeats....which "dor" thinks, knowing these two poets that they might, just might, disagree with how Dawkins portrays them.
Anyone familiar with the Bolsheviks, Republican France, Political Correctness, the so called counter culture of the 1960s finds this a tired gambit.
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Originally Posted by Angela I'll check back with you on this after I read the book. |
That will be when the non-existent subterranean entity is inundated with h20 crystallizing temperatures. ...
In other words, based on the review , I won't ......I have a stack of far more interesting and important books to read...and there's literally millions more that i don't even know about yet. As I have said before from what i have read from him (mostly articles and lengthy quotes) and about him he is just as irrational and self-deceiving as the fundamentalists he claims to abhor. And as the orwell essay alludes to, he's hiding bias judgment behind scientific authority.
and the words aren't 'challenging' by the way, just pretentious - its like watching the bad form of poorly trained ballerina - you aren't challenged, you just wince.