Re: Did Dawkins really claim that god-did-it is a scientific hypothesis?

On 30/05/2025 00:54, RonO wrote:

https://evolutionnews.org/2025/05/dawkins-intelligent-design-is-a- scientific-hypothesis/
 The ID perps are claiming that Dawkins claimed that intelligent design is a scientific hypothesis.
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In 2024 in New York, Dawkins participated in a moving public dialogue with former New Atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who is also a former Muslim. She had not long before announced her conversion to Christianity from atheism for what she describes as “very subjective” reasons. It was in response to a “personal crisis”: “I lived for about a decade with intense depression and anxiety and self-loathing. I hit rock bottom. I went to a place where I actually didn’t want to live anymore but wasn’t brave enough to take my own life.” Faith rather than suicide was her way out of the crisis.
 Dawkins answered kindly that belief in a designer is more than a mere subjective response: “You appear to be a theist,” he told her. “You appear to believe in some kind of higher power. Now, I think that the hypothesis of theism is the most exciting scientific hypothesis you could possibly hold.” Hold that thought in your mind.
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 Did this really happen?
 Ron Okimoto
 

It looks like another bait and switch. Take Dawkins' acceptance of God as a potential scientific hypothesis, and drag in the anti-evolutionary baggage of the Intelligent Design movement. (Fallacy of equivocation.)
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alias Ernest Major