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Syamsu 
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03-06-2003 12:20 PM


Can somebody please point out to me something *exactly* what they find good in Dawkins writing? An exact quote would be most welcome.
I think his writing is well pseudoscience, not even popscience. The non-science that is laced through the pseudo-science I find to be something akin to Satanism. Remarkably straightforward hatespeech.
I've been reading a review of "Devil's Chaplain", which goes like Nature is not cruel, but pitilessly indifferent. That is not a science finding, that is some kind of Satanist finding in my opinion. A generalizing judgement on Nature like this is potentially enormously hateful. I have no idea why such a generalizing judgement would have any merit, either in science or religion.
How on earth anybody can find something of merit in the books of this man, is beyond me, so please explain.
regards,
Mohammad Nor Syamsu
[This message has been edited by Syamsu, 03-06-2003]

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