Richard Dawkins’ hypocrisy drags on:
Professor Richard Dawkins has claimed that forcing a religion on children without questioning its merits is as bad as ‘child abuse’.
In typically incendiary style, the leading atheist said he was against the ‘indoctrination of religion’ and teaching it as fact.
He’s just wrong. Not “religiously” wrong (well, he is that, too) but scientifically wrong. Wrong according to the …
Richard Dawkins says there is a logical path from religion to violence, but not from atheism to violence. He comes stunningly close to the truth, while yet missing it altogether.
This comes from somewhere after minute 75 in a debate (video here) with John Lennox in Birmingham, Alabama on October 3, 2007. Dawkins said,
I think there is a logical path from religion to doing …
Richard Dawkins says there is a logical path from faith to violence, but not from atheism to violence. He comes stunningly close to the truth, while yet missing it altogether.
This comes from somewhere after minute 75 in a debate (video here) with John Lennox in Birmingham, Alabama on October 3, 2007. Dawkins said,
I think there is a logical path from religion to doing terrible things…. There’s a logical path that says, if you really, really, really believe that your God, …
Book Review Preview
Soon I’ll be posting a review of David H. Glass’s Atheism’s New Clothes: Exploring and Exposing the Claims of the New Atheists. When I read this on p. 181, though, I just had to post a preview. This one sentence captures the tone of the whole book (the topic is Richard Dawkins’s concept of memes).
It is surely ironic that one of Dawkins’s most significant contributions to human thought is a concept that cannot be detected directly, which many people think …
Pardon me for not going to the original source, but here at Uncommon Descent we have a portion of Richard Dawkins’ interview with Playboy. They asked him what he thought of Jesus. The answer he gave is simply astonishing.
The evidence he existed is surprisingly shaky. The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It’s almost as though Saint Paul and others who wrote the Epistles weren’t that interested in whether Jesus was real….
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Mike D, the “A-Unicornist,” is reading True Reason: Christian Responses to the Challenge of Atheism. I say, more power to him. We could all stand to spend time reading authors we disagree with. He’s taking it a chapter at a time and giving it a respectful reading, which I also appreciate.
His first evaluative comment came in response to my introductory chapter to the book. I had spoken my disappointment over Richard Dawkins’s attempt in The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of …
Robert Wright complains in The Atlantic about Dawkins’s unreasonableness. Strangely, where Wright finds him most unreasonable I find Dawkins most reasonable. Dawkins wants to erase the distinction between private and public belief. I say bravo!
Religious belief has been relegated to a private sphere as if it were not a matter of knowledge or of public interest. I am quite sure that much knowledge considered “religious,” which is set off in a corner just because it is “religious,” is actually knowledge and therefore admissible …
My point in my Washington Post column was that the New Atheists have a poor track record in practicing reasoned discourse. Our team of authors said the same thing in the ebook True Reason: Christian Responses to the Challenge of Atheism.
In his article, currently sitting next to mine there at On Faith, Dawkins does it again.
1. The Self-Defeating Statement
How have we come to the point where reason needs a rally to defend it? To base your life on reason …
On March 12 I wrote an email to David Silverman, president of American Atheists. It was a message from the leader of one organization to another, on behalf of both our organizations.
I introduced myself as a leader of the True Reason initiative, which I described to him as “bringing Christians to the Reason Rally for respectful dialogue with atheists there.” I also mentioned that I was involved in producing the True Reason ebook. I proposed that we co-sponsor a debate between Richard …
"The New Atheists claim to be the party of reason.... The problem is, they're not very good at it." — Discover the provocative ebook True Reason: Christian Responses to the Challenge of Atheism.