Read on for exclusive insights into his thought process. The title features detailed ruminations from 19 paradigmatic figures across scientific disciplines, from primatologist Jane Goodall to physicist Steven Weinberg , anthropologist Sarah Hrdy to neuroscientist V. Ramachandran , and many more, including the rest of this particular conversation with Richard Dawkins. Professor Dawkins, on a cruise with invited guests you wore an interesting T-shirt.
The point I wanted to make was that Jesus was a good man, and that a man of his time had to be religious because everybody was. But I suspect that if he had the knowledge we have today, he probably would have been an atheist, and he probably would have been a good man. But humans do seem to be super-nice—at least some of them, or even quite a lot of them. Maybe Jesus was one of those. We have lots of examples of this. Want to see the rest of this article? Would you like to see the rest of this article and all the other benefits that Issues Online can provide with?
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And that was the beginning of the last leg of my journey to conversion to Catholicism. If anyone had told me five years earlier that I would one day become Catholic, I honestly would have laughed in their face.
In reading to refute Dawkins as well as educate myself and find answers to questions, I discovered the God-man Jesus Christ. Not only did the Catholic view resonate with me emotionally, but perhaps more importantly for me, it was intellectually honest.
The Protestant view seemed watered down maybe part of the reason I left the Lutheran Church to pursue exploration of Judaism. But my question remained: How did the first century world view Jesus Christ?
Not an easy read, but it made sense. Yet, in all honesty, I believe one has to give credence to the paradigmatic lens that has been adopted since the Scientific Revolution of the 18th century for discrediting belief in a supernatural God as unscientific because unprovable by scientific method and therefore false. I choose to believe in a supernatural God and his son Jesus. I believe in miracles. I believe that, while science has many valuable insights to offer us, it is not the final word.
I believe that some things are beyond our understanding, certainly now, and perhaps forever. I believe that God is great and that man, created in his image and with free will, has made wonderful discoveries about the natural world that we inhabit. I choose to believe in God and that he is no delusion, nor am I delusional. If anyone had told me five years earlier that I would one day become Catholic, I honestly would have laughed in their face and bet all my worldly possessions and then some that such a thing would never happen.
Was I ever wrong! And had my stepdaughter not recommended that I read The God Delusion I might never have gone on to pursue my own honest and intellectual search for the meaning of my life. I would still be lost and wandering with only a convenient and partial faith.
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