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Sep 27, 2023 · Dawkins promised them a world of secure certainties and a rational approach to life — yet on closer examination, he offered them only another set of beliefs, rather than scientifically or ...
Dec 4, 2019 · Following his introductory critique, Dawkins compares belief in the Abrahamic God to unicorns, fairies, and Santa Claus—because nobody would have seen that coming. The problem with this comparison—as tedious as it is to keep explaining the same thing again and again—is most people reject, for example, Santa Claus, not because there is an absence of evidence for him, but because there is ...
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 ...
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.
May 21, 2018 · About twelve years ago evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins published The God Delusion. It has had a huge impact. As Dawkins Australian tour continues, it seems a good time to return to the book. Critics have said it’s a book stronger on rhetoric than substantive arguments. While this may be the case, it is only fair to assess his book on his own terms, namely as a case for theism being a ...
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.
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Jun 19, 2007 · Dawkins: The fact that I think religion is bad science, whereas you think it is ancillary to science, is bound to bias us in at least slightly different directions. I agree with you that teaching ...
