Over My Head (blog assignment for week 24 #3)

So...5 reflective blog posts in response to our reading and thinking.  Well, I'm not sure if this is exactly what Mrs. Bell meant, but this is a response to my reading.


I read the excerpt from the God Delusion by Richard Dawkins and I did not understand remember half of it.  I thought the beginning was good; the stuff with the boy was interesting and a good way to get started.  But ya know, when these writer's start using all these big words and long sentences it kind goes in one ear and out the other: "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."  Uhhh...can you repeat that?  OK, so I like simplicity, in writing at least.  That's why I write my blog as if I was talking to someone.  I like reading stuff like that, it's easy to understand.  So yeah, I would never be able to read this God Delusion book.  I wouldn't understand it and it would be so boring.  


There were a few parts I found interesting.  Like when Carl Sagan was quoted talking about his 'little god'.  Oh, and I never knew Einstein was an atheist before I read this passage.  I thought that was strange.  How could a guy as bright as Einstein who understood science so well not see the evidence of a god?  How could he look at all the complicated science stuff and not recognize that it was created by a higher being?  But anyway, that's not really the point.
Yeah, that's all I have to say about that.


So, my whole point is that I dislike these books and such that seem to address more 'sophisticated' people and that if you want to capture my interest, keep it fairly simple.  I'm not sure if this is rally what I was supposed to do, but this is what I had to think about this passage.