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January 15th, 2008
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  1. hen says:
    January 15, 2008 at 5:01 am

    “Ultimately, when people say they have faith, they mean that have faith in their own judgement”

    That’s pretty insightful.

  2. Mel says:
    January 15, 2008 at 7:36 am

    way too smart for Mo I think. was this somekind of epiphany than?

  3. jONES. says:
    January 15, 2008 at 8:08 am

    I think therefore I am RIGHT?

  4. Warren says:
    January 15, 2008 at 8:10 am

    “Faith in their own judgment”…

    Yes. Very, very good.

  5. rand says:
    January 15, 2008 at 9:01 am

    So insightful that I ordered a couple coffee mugs for the office 🙂

  6. Peter L says:
    January 15, 2008 at 4:43 pm

    Moved up yet another notch. Great stuff! Author! Author!

  7. Keith says:
    January 15, 2008 at 4:58 pm

    The perils of epistemology have sucked in even one such as Mo.

  8. Ricard says:
    January 16, 2008 at 1:31 am

    Definitely up a notch or two on the epistemology front. And so succinctly expressed. Keep it up!!

  9. tie says:
    January 16, 2008 at 2:01 am

    nice one,

    “Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”
    Richard Dawkins

  10. JayBee says:
    January 17, 2008 at 7:45 am

    Hail Author!

  11. jONES. says:
    January 17, 2008 at 9:16 am

    In some cases, Faith is belief in DEFIANCE of the evidence… Whatever evidence there may be is just the work of the devil…

    If there’s no evidence, they have faith. If there IS evidence they have faith that the evidence is wrong…

  12. Rob says:
    January 18, 2008 at 11:38 am

    Yes- “Credo quia absurdum” – I believe because its absurd.
    A Rabbi once told me that it was because the law of shatnez- the one that says you can’t wear wool and cotton together- was so oviously insane that it proved his faith.
    Its like reaching into your own skull, pulling out your frontal lobes and throwning them aside. “I won’t be needing those!”
    Keep up the good work.

  13. Don Cox says:
    January 19, 2008 at 10:31 am

    One of the aims of dictators is to force the people they rule to do insane things, and keep a straight face while doing them. For examples, see any account of North Korea.

  14. jerry w. says:
    January 20, 2008 at 12:03 am

    A nice variant on “Don’t confuse me with the facts, I’ve got my mind made up”.

    That’s not actually a quote from George W. Bush, but were he able to speak in complete sentences, he might have said that .

    He wouldn’t understand it, but he would have grinned like he did if he was so instructed.

    http://boskolives.wordpress.com/

  15. A New Fan says:
    January 22, 2008 at 12:52 am

    Hilarious!

  16. Thomas G says:
    March 12, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    “The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a
    short-circuit destroying the mind.” — Ayn Rand, _Galt’s Speech_

  17. ToddAwful says:
    May 19, 2008 at 5:48 pm

    If you use the trilemma, Jesus logic pans out.

    Tie, it seems to me that Dawkins finds science a wonderful excuse to ignore anything he doesn’t care to think about.

  18. Thoughts of a Dying Atheist says:
    March 11, 2010 at 9:29 pm

    It would seem he does care about it actually, as he wrote a book discussing it, or something to that effect…

  19. Bagpuss says:
    October 11, 2010 at 11:55 pm

    ….and what was the title of that book please (assuming that you’re still with us, that is!)

  20. Bones'sDog says:
    May 1, 2017 at 4:48 pm

    Bagpuss, I know it’s a little slow as a response and you may have gone to a better place (some other web-comic) and you might have lost patience with TOADA, but in case you are still here you could do worse than to start with “The Blind Watchmaker”, continue with “The God Delusion” and take in the excellent “Unweaving The Rainbow” in which last he makes the point that knowing how the damned things work enhances the experience.
    If you, or anyone else, are really interested in this area of thought you could also try the truly lovely “The Demon Haunted World” by Carl Sagan. He does tend to be more poetic than Prof. Dawkins but that is often nice.

  21. Bones'sDog says:
    May 1, 2017 at 4:49 pm

    Bagpuss, I know it’s a little slow as a response and you may have gone to a better place (some other web-comic) and you might have lost patience with TOADA, but in case you are still here you could do worse than to start with “The Blind Watchmaker“, continue with “The God Delusion” and take in the excellent “Unweaving The Rainbow” in which last he makes the point that knowing how the damned things work enhances the experience.
    If you, or anyone else, are really interested in this area of thought you could also try the truly lovely “The Demon Haunted World” by Carl Sagan. He does tend to be more poetic than Prof. Dawkins but that is often nice.

  22. Bones'sDog says:
    May 1, 2017 at 4:50 pm

    I wondered what would happen when I did that. I think I’m really impressed.

  23. Bones'sDog says:
    May 1, 2017 at 4:55 pm

    I didn’t say “positively impressed” but the web-form validator recognised that the two posts were different even though no words were changed. That’s cool.
    Not perfect, but cool.
    Author … any chance of binning the erroneous first copy? Thank you ever so.

    Oh … wait … if you do that then this and the one before will look strange and dorky.
    Oh, well, I suppose that would be fine. I’ve been called worse.

  24. Archophob says:
    November 25, 2020 at 10:27 pm

    Well, Jesus *is* the guy with the holey hands, so he *did* get crucified and obviously is now alive again. Why should he not have faith in himself?

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