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McGrath examines Dawkins' use of Bertrand Russell's teapot analogy as well as the basics of Dawkins' theory of Memetics. McGrath criticizes Dawkins for referencing Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough as an authority on anthropology, as he considers the work to be more of "a highly impressionistic early work" than a serious text. McGrath also ...
- Alister McGrath
- 2007
Jun 13, 2010 · Dawkins refers to McGrath’s ‘admirably fair summary of my scientific works’, but then suggests that McGrath seemed to have only one point in rebuttal to offer: ‘the undeniable but ignominiously weak point that you cannot disprove the existence of God’ (any more than you can disprove the existence of those favourite figments of the atheist’s imagination, the orbiting teapot and the ...
Feb 11, 2007 · Here’s an interesting lecture by Alister McGrath, responding to Richard Dawkins: Is God a Delusion? Atheism and the Meaning of Life (MP3). It was given at the City Church of San Francisco in the fall of 2006. McGrath is Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. He is the author of Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of ...
The more critical thing that McGrath manage to show is that belief in God is reasonable. Arguments for God’s existence. McGrath accepts that Dawkins’ book ‘The Blind Watchmaker’ was the ‘finest’ critique based on biological science of Paley’s teleological/design argument for God. Dawkins knows what he is talking about regarding ...
Recalling Dawkins’s earlier work Climbing Mount Improbable, McGrath notes Dawkins’s admission that humanity’s existence itself is overwhelmingly improbable. But of course we exist. “We may ...
McGrath notes that Dawkins also has an extraordinarily selective reading of the Bible. Many Jewish and Christian scholars and believers find aspects of these texts puzzling. Dawkins seems unwilling to consider the context in which these texts were written or to apply any of the cultural and historical factors which are considered when interpreting the texts in many religious traditions.
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Sep 15, 2023 · Edited by Denis Alexander and Alister McGrath. ... he found their arguments to be poor and often not accurate. ... found his logical syllogisms more sound than the claims of Dawkins and the other ...
