http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=33122
Curious as to what all the fuss was about, I did a Google search on him that directed me to this site:
http://richarddawkins.net/
Where, I read the first chapter of his book The God Delusion. The following passage was of interest to me:
Human thoughts and emotions emerge from exceedingly complex interconnections of physical entities within the brain. An atheist in this sense of philosophical naturalist is somebody who believes there is nothing beyond the natural, physical world, no supernatural creative intelligence lurking behind the observable universe, no soul that outlasts the body and no miracles - except in the sense of natural phenomena that we don't yet understand. If there is something that appears to lie beyond the natural world as it is now imperfectly understood, we hope eventually to understand it and embrace it within the natural. As ever when we unweave a rainbow, it will not become less wonderful.
Upon reading that, my thoughts were that the laws of physics contradict the 2 following believes of Dawkins:
...there is ... no soul that outlasts the body...
and
...If there is something that appears to lie beyond the natural world as it is now imperfectly understood, we hope eventually to understand it and embrace it within the natural.
The laws of physics, particularly the law that says information can not be lost, dictates that there must be a soul that outlasts the body. The second law of thermodynamics dictates that the natural world will always be imperfectly understood, and that which is mysterious will always exceed that which is known. I talked about how chaos and disorder will always exceed that which is knowable in a previous post. I will use a follow up post to explain why I have stated that the laws of physics dictate that there must be a human soul that outlasts the body.
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