A recent tweet:
By his own lights Dawkins has a point. In a naturalistic interpretation of the universe, pigs and people are simply different arrangements of atoms, molecules and DNA: there is nothing to say one is worth more than another unless the yardstick for measuring worth is complexity, in which case a human would win – but not a foetus.
Again, by Dawkins’ own Darwinian lights, a civilisation that aborts its young is liable to select itself out in the competition to survive. Liberals are industriously aborting themselves into oblivion, leaving Roman Catholics, Muslims and the Third World as a fitting epitaph to the anti-civilisation that Dawkins is helping create.
It’s just as well that Dawkins is wrong: a human from the time of conception is made in the image of God and is of infinitely more value than a pig. Even Richard Dawkins was made in God’s image – hard to believe, I know.
Could Richard Dawkins be a shape shifter?…
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Given the quality of most human beings, and the potential quality of many of those to come, shouldn’t we apologise to pigs?
Dawkins used to promote the idea that humans are just the mechanism by which genes reproduce themselves. By his own standards, therefore, this is horse manure – the foetus is an effective carrier of the human gene, and the pig most certainly is not.
This tweet, if in fact it came from Dawkins, is thus more indicative of his foul temper and deep anger, than of his true beliefs.
The appalling inhumanity of the statement, deeply repugnant to all thinking humans, is indicative of the moral vacuum that Dawkins has carved within his soul.
– But remember, Michael, that the world we live is is dominated by the ideas/values found in Dawkins’s statements (as seen here); world leaders like Obama, Clinton, and others are promoting it internationally … What an evil world!