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wolven7This is an excerpt from his 1996 talk, at the Richard Dimbleby lecture. Track to about 7:45, and listen from there.
He actually just compared the preference of one of two rival systems of explanation and description to racial profiling.
In terms of unfair preference for a type of thing, sure, but that's like saying "There is a show about pie making, with a lemon creme pie and a banana creme pie, and every week the banana creme pie wins."
To place the act of paranormal explanation in the same moral sphere as racism is simply an unjust implication and, to my mind, reprehensible.
Dawkins sounds reasonable and willing to listen to different views, for just long enough to build a straw man out of them, and then make an obviously ridiculous position look ridiculous. Shocking. And so difficult, too.
Distasteful.
He actually just compared the preference of one of two rival systems of explanation and description to racial profiling.
In terms of unfair preference for a type of thing, sure, but that's like saying "There is a show about pie making, with a lemon creme pie and a banana creme pie, and every week the banana creme pie wins."
To place the act of paranormal explanation in the same moral sphere as racism is simply an unjust implication and, to my mind, reprehensible.
Dawkins sounds reasonable and willing to listen to different views, for just long enough to build a straw man out of them, and then make an obviously ridiculous position look ridiculous. Shocking. And so difficult, too.
Distasteful.
