Comments on: dawkins on god

By: harmonicminer

harmonicminer — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:14:31 +0000

Aly, are you saying that if Jesus’ bones were found and verified to be his, that Christianity would not totter and fall?

Or is the author of the review saying that?

Or am I misreading?

Saying that faith is not reducible to factual knowledge is quite different than saying the facts have no real impact on the faith….

Maybe I’m misunderstanding.

By: aly hawkins

aly hawkins — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:10:19 +0000

Ran across this scathing rebuke of Dawkins in the London Review of Books: Dawkins rejects the surely reasonable case that science and religion are not in competition on the grounds that this insulates religion from rational inquiry. But this is a mistake: to claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered in Palestine, the pope should get himself down to the dole queue as fast as possible. It is rather to claim that while faith, rather like love, must involve factual knowledge, it is not reducible to it.

By: Morphea

Morphea — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:51:05 +0000

No, no, no. Silly man.

By: phil

phil — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:49:46 +0000

Mike, I just left a comment… it didn’t appear. Am I getting put in the SPAM again?

[.. sounds of cheering from Cerise...]

By: phil

phil — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:46:29 +0000

Dawkins is pretty well dismantled in “Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life” by Alister McGrath, he of theological fame, who also happens to hold a Ph.D. in biology.

McGrath evaluates Dawkins’ positions from an evolutionist perspective, and finds them wanting.

It’s a short book, and an interesting read.

By: aly hawkins

aly hawkins — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:54:31 +0000

“We are allowed one stroke of luck for the origin of evolution, and perhaps for a couple of other unique events like the origin of the eukaryotic cell and the origin of consciousness.”

Oh, okay. It’s luck then. Silly me.

Geez…talk about fundamentalist.