Why does Richard Dawkins sing Christmas carols?

I 'met God'. The experience matches the described experience of religious people exactly, and I have had the experience many times while contemplating a variety of gods or higher beings. I realized that the experience is not evidence for higher beings and have had the same experience while spending an evening stargazing. Experiencing the mysterium tremendum et fascinans does not necessitate belief in a deity, though the power of the experience often convinces people that said deities exist (though the nature of these deities varies wildly).

Huh? Are you implying that we can know nothing? What are you talking about?

Forgive me, but the point you made was to imply that the antiquity of a belief is evidence of its correctness.

To drag us back on course, are you any more ready to accept that Dawkins' description of himself as an atheist is compatible with his being a scientist, and his willingness to admit that he might be wrong?

Oh please don't start that kind of nonsense.

More likely, we would have absolutely no useful way of describing our beliefs to each other, and anyone who wanted to ascribe to a belief, or lack thereof, would have to be a fundamentalist, who could admit no possibility of being wrong.

That one's going in the signature. It really sums up what people have been trying to tell you and some other Christians for years.

I, the prophet bluegenes, propose that the universe was created by nine Goddesses because they thought it would look pretty, and they were curious to see what would happen in black holes.