Richard Dawkins challenges Sydney Archbishop at atheist conventionThe Christian Post, April 10, 2012
Atheist Richard Dawkins is in Australia this week for the
Global Atheist Convention where he faced up to Archbishop of Sydney George Pell, the highest ranked clergyman in Australia, in a televised debate on faith and religion. ...
...The television programme also conducted a poll beforehand, in which
76 per cent of the 20,000 Australian respondents apparently
voted that religious belief does not make the world a better place.
Archbishop Pell was given the early lead in terms of points by the audience when he highlighted that
science could not answer some of life's most profound questions, such as why we are here.
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The question why is not necessarily a question that deserves to be answered," Dawkins fired back. "
'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question." ...
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Secularism in Australia has grown significantly in the past century, the Sydney Morning Herald reported, citing that in 1901, a census found less than one per cent of Australians said they belonged to no religion. By 2006 that number had risen to 18.7 per cent. ...
Alex's comment: "Science could not answer some of life's most profound questions, such as why we are here." Yes. But neither can religions, although they pretend to. Science does not pretend to answer unanswerable questions. And the name of not pretending is honesty.
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