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Monday 13th August 2007 12:45 AM
I've just read a preview of Ayatollah Richard Dawkins latest TV programme, 'Enemies of Reason', by one of his acolytes, the fiery rationalist cleric, Charlie Brooker, of the Guardian.
Blimey! If newspapers employ columnists because they think they represent a sizeable aspect of the zeitgeist, then God help us! (I'm being provocative there, by mentioning the Big G, The All, The One, Allah, Brahman, The Almighty, Mr and Mrs God, Old Nobodaddy who Farts Aloft, The Nameless One… I'll come back to it later, but I just thought I'd give you an insight into the structure of the blog, in the hope that you'll like me more)
Fundamentalist preachers brook no argument, you're either with them or against them. Charlie's recommendation, that anyone who claims to be spiritual should punch themselves in the throat until they've destroyed their voice box, suggests a certain reluctance to engage in dialogue. He says that cold, clear, rational thought and contemptuous mockery of those who believe in an intelligent universe, is the only way to save the planet. Personally, I stand firm with Errol Brown, of Hot Chocolate fame, when he says 'I believe in miracles, you sexy thing'.
Richard Dawkins, wilfully ignoring the overthrow of materialism by modern physics, still thinks that the universe is like a really big car, (honestly, it's massive), whose complex workings are gradually being demystified, while-we-wait, by really brainy Quick-fit mechanics. I'm sorry to say this Richard, but we're going to have to scrap your car. We've discovered that your ball-bearings are 99.9% empty space, and it's difficult ordering spare parts when we don't know if it's a particle or a wave.
Dawkins states that science is the only route to knowledge. If we could just show him an inch of compassion, a gram of love or a hermetically sealed plastic bag, containing a thousand and eight metric tonnes of truth and beauty, he could measure them and acknowledge them. Until then, for poor old Richard, it's all just chemical illusion.
The idea that the universe is random, and operating entirely through physical laws, without any evidence of innate intelligence, is something my Great Uncle Albert would have strongly disagreed with. Without contemptuous mockery, because he was a nice man with curly hair, he would have pointed out that God does not play dice with the universe. Fred Hoyle, who used to go out at night with a massive binocular, looking for heavenly bodies, said the chance of creation being random was the same as a hurricane blowing through a junkyard and coming up with a Boeing 707.
So, Richard Dawkins thinks I'm superstitious and deluded while Charlie Brooker thinks I'm just a credulous cretin. Tomorrow morning, during meditation, I'm going to forgive them, then I'll pray for them and send them healing energies. That'll really annoy them.
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