How dare the High Priest of Militant Atheist Secular Science set up for me a survey that will tell him whether I conform to his caricatures of Christianity or not. He has already set out his stall, and will be loading the questions in order to set me up to fail in whatever way he wants. He is not the slightest bit interested in me as one of the little people, nor of my views or testimony. He Does want to gather his evidence to ensure that no census question ever goes forward with any query about the "faith" of the person concerned.
In that way, Christianity will be banished to the margins-I mean if no Government even bothers to ask, then why should the views of Christians be bothered with in any regard whatsoever. A private opinion at best, and then he`ll doubtless be wanting to do something about that afterwards.
His survey has the interest of the fascinated and hypnotised cobra that only waits for the unexpected movement. Then it will strike and kill, contented that it observed and saw enough to learn.Learn enough hopefully to strangle any such stirrings at birth in future anyway.
That is not to say that there is nothing to learn from Dawkins survey. What you learn is that he is a flaccid biologist turned witchfinder general, and so statistical methods as well as survey techniques that screen out prebias are not his area of expertise. Neither by the look of this survey is theology, but that does not stop him from having his ill-informed opinions being quantified and measured as grooms might once have checked the stools of the Dauphin.
The survey if pretty much one a sixth former might have done for Heat Magazine in language and gauche simplistics. It holds no water in terms of what Christians do, think, believe or could possibly assist Dawkins with. His enquiries are those of the bent copper, wanting to frame the Christian bookseller for inciting racial hatred at a time more convenient to himself-pension secured and too old to be brought low for perjury or corruption.
Dawkins let this survey go out in his name,and so his ignorance and malice are inexcusable. He-like his UEA chums and Climategate-is responsible for this farrago, and so should resign...or desist from talking about much else that sexing the fruit flies. About the only followers that will be left with him if he does not use better sampling and survey techniques in future...oh yes, and do a bit of checking on doctrines, variations on the Christian message, and allow for errors a little. Then trying not to set us all up for the Today programme, who are no better at science or statistics than is the archdunce Dawkins on the basis of this pitiful survey of his.
