Comments by "Martin Parsons" (@MartinParsons-tr6wi) on "Gender, Ricky Gervais u0026 J K Rowling - Richard Dawkins | heretics. 9" video.

@clarkelaidlaw1678 Seeking comfort is not something to be derogatory about. As you said, believing in a deity(ies) is a human past time of long standing. No sense can be made of the void without something to hang on to. Presumably, your belief is it's all a massive coincidence. That's still a belief
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@BenJohnson-qp5og. You seem to be inferring left wingers are far sighted intellectuals. This is entirely at odds with my experience
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He has taken the knowledge and run with it
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 @athiestblade He knows from experience he has to tiptoe round the sand people. They can be a bit tetchy with criticism
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@clarkelaidlaw1678 Fair comment Clarke. Factual yardsticks help us to guage what we can measure, but if we want to guage dimensions beyond our perception, perhaps a cerebral yardstick is a necessary requisite. You forced me to think about that one (!). Incidentally, I've seen Dawkins struggle with the idea of consciousness
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@briansmith3791 People are siding with murderers on both sides, which sort of makes your point for you. But it also makes Malthus' point for him. Things are rarely (if ever) as simplistic as that. The ideal world is a different place from the one we have to inhabit
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 @Daz19 You're confusing yourself. Women bear children. That's why they're different from men
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Talk about getting lost down a rabbit hole. Ever heard of the maternal instinct ?
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@briansmith3791 You may be right, but I don't think being dispassionate is necessarily lacking in compassion. Have you read any Malthus ?
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