October 28, 2006
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Dawkins...
Here's a roundup on more dust stirred up by Dawkins' crusade/book tour
(cf. also my previous post about Dawkins' new book The God Delusion).http://catholiceducation.org/articles/science/sc0086.htm - Quinn interacts with Dawkins and pins him on several rhetorical and evidential flaws. Notice where Quinn correctly points out that Dawkins is using an appeal to mystery/wishful-thinking (i.e. Scientists havn't figured it out yet, but they've shed light on many other things, so they'll eventually figure this out too...). Uh huh.
http://www.uncommondescent.com/archives/1740 - The fascinating controversy between Dawkins and the more "under-the-radar" atheists/agnostics such as the NCSE.
http://www.uncommondescent.com/archives/1739 - Dawkins can't explain free will and subsequently has difficulty with the illusion (!) of morality.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/atheism.html - a seven-page article about "the New Atheists", with interviews with Dawkins, Dennett, and Harris, well-known contemporary atheists (hat tip: Snincr). See Plantinga's review at http://www.veritas-ucsb.org/library/plantinga/Dennett.html for an awesome discussion of Dennett's/Darwin's views on atheism/evolution and the reliability of the human mind (from a reformed perspective).
My overall take on Dawkins is that he's sadly mistaken, but commendably attempting to be honest (not in all of his beliefs and rhetoric, but in more areas than is typical for an atheist).
Comments (2)
i'm not sure if it has to be either/or... but for me, election no longer carries this sense of entitlement but not carries responsibility... Like before i didn't really get election(like pre-homeschooling) but i think that quote sums up what i believe i personally am called to do in the world now
the crisis-response was a new-reformed idea i've learned over the years that i think is wonderful:) thoughts?
Hmm.
I'm a determinist. I'd take credit where people gave it to me, because even if I was supposed to do something from the start, I've still had to go through the hard motions and work to do it. And as for punishing criminals, I really don't think of the justice system as having to do with punishment. It's about prevention of more crime. You fine someone if they do something slightly wrong, so they don't do it again, and you send them to jail if they do something really bad so they're not on the streets committing more crimes.
I don't know about religion sometimes. I believe in something greater than what humanity can see at present, so if you want to call that "God," or "Fluglima," or "Waffles," be my guest.
~Sol
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