Top 12 Reasons Atheism = Stupidity

(This is my revised version of “The 12 Days of Christmas” renamed “The 12 Days of Atheism = Stupidity” – it’s basically the top 12 reasons why atheism is so securely grounded in stupidity – the song goes like this…)

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my True Love gave to me...

Richard Dawkins

If you need any more proof of how atheism is grounded in stupidity, then look no further than Richard Dawkins and his minions. Mr. Dawkins is a darling to atheists all over the world, but Mr. Dawkins should actually be a huge embarrassment to any self-respecting atheist.

When atheists pledge allegiance to Mr. Dawkins, they reveal just how utterly blind they are to the man’s fatal flaws (his fatal flaws in science as well as in logic and reason).

First of all, here is a man who is not only highly intelligent but is also recognized as a top-notch scientist in the field of evolutionary biology. The thing is this. While Mr. Dawkins gets a lot of things “right,” his analysis of religion (and evolution) is fatally flawed for several reasons.

First, here is a man who is a biologist, yet when you read his books it’s clear he’s absolutely clueless about how the sensory systems function in humans and animals. Normally, being clueless about how the sensory systems function wouldn’t be such a horrible thing, but it becomes horrifically funny in the case of Mr. Dawkins because he rejects religion on the basis of the sensory information that has happened to penetrate his sensory systems and enter his brain.

Please. If you’re going to reject religion on the basis of the sensory information that enters your sensory systems and gets processed in your brain, then, for crying out loud, the least you should do is a) understand how the sensory systems work and b) understand the biological limitations of the sensory systems!

If you don’t think that Mr. Dawkins is clueless about how the sensory systems work in humans and animals, then just look at his book titled “The Selfish Gene” or even any of his more recent books. When he puts so much emphasis on the level of the gene in determining an organism’s behavior and its evolutionary destiny, it’s because he doesn’t understand that there are too many other variables (other than genes) involved in evolution the “farther up the food chain” you go. And his utter cluelessness about this is evident because nowhere in his books – nowhere – does he talk about “perception versus reality” in humans and animals.

It’s perfectly fine to say “the gene drives evolution” at the level of microorganisms (because the behavior of microorganisms isn’t mediated by anything we call “perception”), whereas behavior in humans and animals is almost entirely driven by perception. And the fatal flaw in Mr. Dawkins perception of the world, his perception of reality, his perception of religion, and his perception science is this: any piece of “sensory information x” can be perceived in an almost infinite number of ways by humans (but not by animals, and certainly not by microorganisms).

Please, get a life already, will you Mr. Dawkins?

Another big problem with Mr. Dawkins is that he has become emotionally attached to his point of view about how to interpret “the data.” Mr. Dawkins gets incandescent with rage whenever he’s exposed to people and ideas that don’t agree with his point of view. (Doesn’t he know that emotions and science don’t mix? Doesn’t he know that scientists who get emotional about their subject matter can’t be trusted as objective observers?)