12 month ago
philgyford : Wired 14.11: The Church of the Non-Believers - Dawkins, Dennett, Sam Harris. (via The Same River Twice)
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22 month ago
plasticbag : Alister McGrath is all over the place (including the Daily Mail) in an attempt to promote his book, a response to Dawkins' The God Delusion - The Dawkins book is, it has to be said, clumsy and yes, sure, Dawkins himself comes across as arrogant and rude. But while McGrath takes delight in picking apart some of Dawkins' strategies, he doesn't really counter his arguments...
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plasticbag : Another review of The God Delusion - this time from the Independent and by Murrough O'Brien, and full of extraordinarily bad argument and logical fallacies... - O'Brien cites Darwin's influence on Hitler as a bad thing. It is, but logic (unlike religion) does not require the use of knowledge to be positive. Similarly, it is not reasonable to argue that longevity of the religious idea constitutes any evidence to i
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23 month ago
plasticbag : Okay - only a few more of these to go - another review of The God Delusion, this time by Mary Wakefield of The Daily Telegraph, who again says that it won't convince anyone... - The assumption of these reviews is that an individual is either a Christian or an atheist. I disagree. I think there are a lot of people who call themselves Christians who when faced with the actuality of what they're supposed to believe look stunned and
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23 month ago
plasticbag : Jim Holt reviews The God Delusion for the New York Times - Another review that argues the book won't convince anyone and which muddles up Dawkins' thinking with group selection, before arguing it's reasonable to ignore the way one would operate in any other situation when confronted with a religious question...
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23 month ago
plasticbag : Joan Bakewell reviews Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion in glowing terms... - "Religions have the secular world running scared. This book is a clarion call to cower no longer. Primed by anger, redeemed by humour, it will, I trust, offend many."
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23 month ago
plasticbag : The Independent's review of The God Delusion is a little more equivocal... - It's a flawed review in that it attempts to defeat Dawkins on his own terms - ie. by describing religion as a trait that provides its adherents with greater adaptive success, rather than by looking towards the meme as the unit of selection.
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25 month ago
plasticbag : Richard Dawkins has written another essay about Atheism which I suppose is worth a read - It's not the best essay, by any means, but it's vaguely interesting and of course I'm there with the sentiment. I wonder what draws a man to finally declare war on religion. I feel close to that point, but not there yet...
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26 month ago
plasticbag : The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science - I will contributing money to this and I recommend any and all of you to do the same. Richard Dawkins has a style that not everyone gets along with, but that doesn't stop him being clearly and self-evidently right.
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35 month ago
plasticbag : Channel 4's two-part series, "Root of Evil" sees Richard Dawkins talk about his understanding of the dangers of religious thinking - I'm watching the show and - as usual - I'm stunned by what I see as the credulity of religious people in defiance of all reason. But I'm also noticing that Dawkins is not a sympathetic character, his rationality manifesting quite aggressively...
deusx : Channel 4 - Can you believe it? - The Real Exorcists - "Richard Dawkins is astounded that religious faith is gaining ground in the face of rational, scientific truth based on hard evidence."
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