Paul's comments

Paul's comments from the Banned Books group.

Note: Paul is no longer a member of this group.

"For most of human history there was no evidence of the existence of dinosaurs, but that did not mean that they did not exist."

I think you could argue though that anyone who believed in dinosaurs before the discovery of fossils was slightly mad.

Hi Lisa - I have two opposing ideas about all this. 1) we're here, as is the universe

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24183...

and it all takes some explaining, don't you think?

2) the science of the future always appears to be magic to people from the past. So the scientific explanation for all this existence would, actually, sound just like God.

Sounds like the same kind of problem that the filming of Brick Lane ran into:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/article...

Hi, I just joined this group. I haven't yet read Dawkins and i'm wondering if he's managed to resolve a problem about atheism which is that it's just as much a position of faith as theism, cause you can't prove it one way or another. So is he actually an agnostic? (It's one thing to say that all believers are delusional but it's another to say there is no god.)