[QUOTE="wis3boi"][QUOTE="FelipeInside"] I don't like when people say they know something when it's impossible to do so. Probably an opposition to that kind of thinking I guess? What I mean by no opposition, I respect Atheists and their beliefs. But no more of this cause it's Off Topic.FelipeInside
Dawkins claims nothing of the sort ;)
It's from a video I saw of him talking about God and stuff.His goal seems to be that of one who wants to educate people on religion should not be blindly followed, and telling someone who is devoutly religious that they "might not be completely accurate" isn't going to accomplish much. As he described himself on his own scale, he is a "6.9" out of "7", with "7"being "I know as fact that there is no God." and "1" being the opposite. Basically, it seems so unlikely to him that there is no deity currently observing and/or interfering with the universe that there is no reason to live as if there is one. He is making a claim to get your attention, and then elaborating and providing evidence for his claims. It's like an article in a newspaper, on something that seems ridiculous at first. For example, there is a type of fungus that infects ants in certain rain forests and basically makes them look like horrifying bugs with a sort of stem coming out of the top. This causes the ants to produce spores to infect other ants, although it only seems to succeed in roughly 6.5 percent of infected ants. This is not particularly frightening, since it is generally unsuccessful, but a headline of "Zombie Apocalypse hits Ants" is much more interesting than stating everything I just said as a title. After making this claim, the article elaborates and explains what the headline means, and then provides evidence that this actually happens. It's rather simple, really.
Source:http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/05/120504-zombie-ant-fungus-science-environment-rainforest/
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