Tag Archives: Richard Dawkins

Dawkins’ Principled Stand Against Most Forms of Genocide

Two Recent Headlines: Source 1      Source 2 Maybe Richard Dawkins would say that destroying Christianity is not like killing off a nation, morally speaking. If so, then he is blind to historical and geopolitical realities. Here’s what the Rev. George Pitcher said about it. You’ll find it in the second source article: But one of these …

December 20, 2011 – 10:02 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism | Tagged , , | Comments (34)

Richard Dawkins’ Anti-Scientific Hypocrisy

In honor of Richard Dawkins’ refusal to debate William Lane Craig tomorrow, I’m re-posting a piece I wrote for the Newport News Daily Press early in 2007, highlighting his hypocritical willingness to ignore science when it suits his purpose. This article was also published at BreakPoint. Richard Dawkins’ book The God Delusion has been a …

October 24, 2011 – 3:29 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (6)

Do Atheists’ Actions Have Any Connection To Their Beliefs?

Watch at video.foxnews.com Richard Dawkins (about 2:25): What I do think is that there is some logical connection between believing in God and doing some, sometimes, evil things, but there’s no logical connection between them [Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot] being atheists and doing evil things. It’s just incidentally true that, say, Mao Zedong and …

October 6, 2011 – 10:51 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (69)

Why We Need Worldview Education

Bless Bill O’Reilly for trying, but Dawkins wins this big-time, especially from 2:27 to 3:00: The reason he wins is simple: he is right and O’Reilly is wrong. How many of us would make the same mistake? A 2008 Pew Forum poll found that 57% of evangelical church attenders believe there are multiple ways to …

January 31, 2011 – 8:54 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Postmodernism/ Relativism | Tagged , | Comments (8)

Reality and “Religion’s Real Child Abuse”

Richard Dawkins wrote in The God Delusion that religion is a dangerous form of child abuse, a claim he reiterated in an online essay titled “Religion’s Real Child Abuse.” He explicitly says that while sexual abuse by priests may be bad, what’s worse is raising children to think of themselves as members of one religion …

April 14, 2009 – 5:45 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (3)

Evolution and Randomness

Peter Williams has commented on Richard Dawkins’s saying this (scroll to “How to Win an Argument…): Natural selection is very much not a theory of chance. Natural selection is really the opposite of chance, it’s non-random survival. To what Peter wrote I would add these questions. (I have raised these questions here more than once, …

January 26, 2009 – 9:37 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged | Comments (10)

“Science is losing to religion – Mail & Guardian Online”

The Mail & Guardian interviewer is rather easily persuaded: “Yes, yes, I know, I know. People say I’m shrill and strident.” Dawkins has a theory about this [writes the reporter], which is very persuasive. “We’ve all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You’re not allowed to …

January 19, 2009 – 11:38 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism | Tagged | Comments (4)

Expelled: The Hot Topic

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Darwin to Hitler?

Two articles of mine posted on other websites today: On BreakPoint.com: Handling a Hot Topic (how Christians ought to engage in controversies like the one over Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed). And on the website for the Center for a Just Society, the first of two articles on the whether there was some connection between Darwinism …

April 17, 2008 – 9:39 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, New Atheism | Tagged , , , | Comments (25)

Dawkins’s Aesthetic Argument for Evolution

An “aesthetic argument for evolution”–I hope it’s obvious to you, just by looking at it that this is self-contradictory. When arguing from some fact to a worldview, one ought to be pointing toward a worldview that can accommodate the fact. Richard Dawkins apparently takes an aesthetic argument as valid, yet as reported by Matt and …

March 27, 2008 – 7:56 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, Ethics, Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (5)

EXPELLED Controversy Top Issue in Blogosphere

Something amazing happened yesterday. The controversy around Premise Media’s upcoming movie Ben Stein’s EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed became the hottest topic in the blogosphere. According to BlogPulse, a service of Nielsen Buzzmetrics, the issue held the number one slot throughout the day on Monday, March 24th (http://www.blogpulse.com). There were also over 800 results on Technorati …

March 26, 2008 – 5:44 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (5)