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On the other hand, the [[Evolution|evolutionist]] and [[Richard Dawkins and agnosticism|agnostic]] [[Richard Dawkins]] said in an interview: “What’s to prevent us from saying [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] wasn’t right? I mean, that is a genuinely difficult question."<ref name=Hitler />
On the other hand, the [[Evolution|evolutionist]] and [[Richard Dawkins and agnosticism|agnostic]] [[Richard Dawkins]] said in an interview: “What’s to prevent us from saying [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] wasn’t right? I mean, that is a genuinely difficult question."<ref name=Hitler />
Larry Taunton, the interviewer wrote, regarding Dawkins' Hitler comment:
{{cquote|I was stupefied. He had readily conceded that his own [[philosophy|philosophical]] position did not offer a rational basis for moral judgments. His intellectual honesty was refreshing, if somewhat disturbing on this point.
Dawkins proceeded to cite the abolition of slavery and the civil rights movement as examples of Western moral advancements, but would not credit Christianity in the slightest.
“Now you have to remember where I am from,” I objected. “Birmingham, Alabama—the home of the civil rights movement. Many there would argue that the Rev. [[Martin Luther King]], Jr., was motivated by his Christian convictions. And what of [[William Wilberforce]]?”
But Dawkins would have none of it. [[Christianity]], in his view, had contributed nothing worthwhile to Western civilization, morally or otherwise. Moral advances—and, curiously, he did consider them advances—were matters for further scientific inquiry.<ref name=Hitler />}}
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== See also ==