God vs Science-TIME

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I don't think the changes in 'concepts of what God does/is' over recent centuries can really be seen as 'retreats' without starting from a particular such concept in the first place, in which case as in others many atheists of the current strain seem to have a significantly more specific, and for that matter more 'traditionalist' (although not actually traditional), idea of God in mind than most theologians.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Did this thread just step out of the 19th century? All of it, I mean. I absolutely mean all of it.

My first reaction when I saw the thread title was 'Oh. This sh**t again.' My second was 'Well this is going to be a misery.'

The perception that a lot of these Dawkins-types have managed to create around themselves that there is anything remotely revolutionary or new about their worldview really is one of the most unintentionally comical things.