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Breakpoint

Richard Dawkins Finds Common Ground with Christians

Breakpoint

Colson Center

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Science and Christianity both reveal truth about reality. Recently on Piers Morgan's television show, Dawkins pushed back against trans activists, even calling them "bullies." 

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0:00.0

With a woman at look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

0:04.5

As one of the most prominent new atheist, Richard Dawkins provided a kind of academic facade

0:08.8

for the anti-religious and specifically anti-Christian movement.

0:12.3

In more recent years, however, he finds himself on the same side of those he once opposed.

0:16.9

Recently, on Peer's Morgan television show, Dawkins pushed back against trans activist,

0:21.3

calling them bullies, looking back on a time that he was canceled for simply asking to

0:25.2

discuss why trans racialism is bad, but transgendarism is good, Dawkins observed that while

0:31.1

race is literally a spectrum, science only allows for two sexes in our species.

0:36.0

Whatever our disagreements are with atheists like Dawkins, and there are many,

0:40.2

scientism and theism do share common ground.

0:43.2

We both believe that truth about reality exists beyond our perceptions, and it's not changed

0:47.7

by a prevailing cultural mood.

0:49.5

At the same time, what Dawkins tends to forget is that he owes Christianity a worldview

0:54.0

he despises for the intellectual framework for the science he so trusts.

0:59.0

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with The Point.

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