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Religious faith is assumed by Dawkins to be unevidenced belief. But Christian faith is grounded on a combination of evidence, including that drawn from history, personal experience and the world around. The justification for such belief is in the nature of a cumulative case. Like the clues in a detective story, no single item of evidence may be ...
Jun 19, 2007 · The title of Dawkins’s best-selling book The God Delusion perhaps best summarizes his opinion of religious belief. These two allies compared notes from the front lines during breaks at a ...
Dec 4, 2019 · December 4, 2019. Paleontologist Neil Shuber writes of Richard Dawkins’s recent book Outgrowing God: With wit, logic, and his characteristic flair for expressing complex ideas with uncanny clarity, Richard Dawkins separates myth from reality in Outgrowing God. His book is more than a beginners’ guide to atheism: it is a primer that ...
Apr 12, 2012 · The real problem here, obviously, is Dawkins's naturalism, his belief that there is no such person as God or anyone like God. That is because naturalism implies that evolution is unguided.
To Dawkins there are two types of harm caused by religion: 1) People thereby come to believe what is not true, and. 2) Moral harm in terms of prejudice and violence e.g. homophobia, misogyny and murder. For Dawkins, both these forms of harm stem from people believing simply because of blind faith.
Jan 6, 2023 · -- Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, p119. Regardless of what you think of Dawkins, his strongest argument against God is the argument from improbability. The argument can be summarized as such: X is extremely improbable without a designer; X is more probable with a designer; X is likely to have been designed
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May 23, 2012 · Dawkins rejects any notion of God's either being self-caused or eternal, and insists that God “must be the end product of some kind of cumulative escalator or crane, perhaps a version of Darwinism in another universe.” See The God Delusion, 146–151, 172–178, and 184–186.
