Richard Dawkins weighs in against reading fairy stories to children

[Christianbookworm]

How exactly would time being infinite mess with the memory of God?
Makes no sense and that's just the first part of his statement I don't get.

Yeah! You think He'd get Alzheimer's disease or long term memory loss? One theory is that time itself didn't exist until the universe did, so...

[Carrikature]

And broken clocks are correct twice each day

It's stopped clocks. A broken clock may never be correct.

[firstfloor]

And here I thought it was just me...

Ah! But are you perhaps a little quick to mock.
This is from Bertrand Russell (on the paradoxical nature of infinity):-
“Tristram Shandy, as we know, employed two years in chronicling the first two days of his life, and lamented that, at this rate, material would accumulate faster than he could deal with it, so that, as years went by, he would be farther and farther from the end of his history. Now I maintain that, if he had lived for ever, and had not wearied of his task, then, even if his life had continued as eventfully as it began, no part of his biography would have remained unwritten. For consider: the hundredth day will be described in the hundredth year, the thousandth in the thousandth year, and so on. Whatever day we may choose as so far on that he cannot hope to reach it, that day will be described in the corresponding year. Thus any day that may be mentioned will be written up sooner or later, and therefore no part of the biography will remain permanently unwritten. This paradoxical but perfectly true proposition depends upon the fact that the number of days in all time is no greater than the number of years.”

Can you think of anything more appalling than eternity? How are you supposed to stay good for that length of time? My limit's about 30 minutes.

[Cerealman]

Ah! But are you perhaps a little quick to mock.
This is from Bertrand Russell (on the paradoxical nature of infinity):-
“Tristram Shandy, as we know, employed two years in chronicling the first two days of his life, and lamented that, at this rate, material would accumulate faster than he could deal with it, so that, as years went by, he would be farther and farther from the end of his history. Now I maintain that, if he had lived for ever, and had not wearied of his task, then, even if his life had continued as eventfully as it began, no part of his biography would have remained unwritten. For consider: the hundredth day will be described in the hundredth year, the thousandth in the thousandth year, and so on. Whatever day we may choose as so far on that he cannot hope to reach it, that day will be described in the corresponding year. Thus any day that may be mentioned will be written up sooner or later, and therefore no part of the biography will remain permanently unwritten. This paradoxical but perfectly true proposition depends upon the fact that the number of days in all time is no greater than the number of years.”

Can you think of anything more appalling than eternity? How are you supposed to stay good for that length of time? My limit's about 30 minutes.

You can stop now.

[rogue06]

It's stopped clocks. A broken clock may never be correct.

I think your spring is wound too tightly.

[Carrikature]

I think your spring is wound too tightly.

I lost it some time back.

[NotSoHumblePie]

I think critical thinking is important. Especially on the internet. Unfortunately, the two concepts seem to be mutually exclusive most of the time. The internet surely is an interesting rabbit hole with twists and turns unlike any we have known before, in terms of "finding truth".

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bb...4-9493433.html

"It IS pernicious to inculcate supernaturalism into a child. But DO fairytales do that? It's an interesting Q. The answer is probably no."

— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) June 5, 2014