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Originally Posted by Megan  Snicker-snack! The fun's over! 
I'm just beamish enough to think our two cultures can learn from each other rightcher on this veritable phenomenon of a thread! Not so, says Oxford biologist Dawkins (The Selfish Gene) who, in an eloquent if prickly defense of the scientific enterprise, calls on the "two cultures" of science and poetry to learn from each other.  |
Of course this is the purpose of the book. But there are just as many examples of harmony of art science and religion...of course dawkins wants religion eliminated - or re-interpreted through his prism....Yeats included.
Angela, my 'attack' on Dawkins as you call it, goes back to what i said before about radicals -they first have to destroy the old by creating or encouraging conflict, then rebuild and re-interpret all aspect of culture through idealogy - if you want to look at the creepy results, go through any 'pc' child's book, or one from the soviet era...... and on a smaller scale that's what I feel dawkins is doing.
I think it is clear you disagree, or perhaps not, I think you said you liked him because he did just that - like the 'in your face gay activists' or something like that? Well when you're one of the people who's face those people are in, it gives you a different perspective....