Dealing with Dawkins and the New Atheists
John Blanchard in "Dealing With Dawkins" has done it again with this short, 90 page, gracious, point by point disagreement with Richard Dawkins the populist atheist. From his detailed work, "Does God Believe in Atheists' through his million best seller, "Ultimate Questions", Blanchard has an ability to deal with complex issues in clear, logical prose.
In this short volume he deals with Dawkins arrogant claims that people of faith are blind and ignorant bigots. From an atheist bigot talking about others? Blanchard never resorts to the kind of hyperbole often used by Dawkins, nor does he set up straw men to knock down, Dawkins' chief method. He quotes other atheist to throw doubt on Dawkins' claims that science has the answer to everything, that evolution determines morality, that religion is the root of all evil, that God does not exist, that the Bible is full of violence, inconsistencies and dangerous teaching.
While Dawkins equates belief in God on a par with belief in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy; psychiastrist Kathleen Jones says more accurately that "when we talk about our onw faith, we mean what we personally believe in as a result of using common sense, logic and experience. We do not mean superstition, wishful thinking, self-delusion." p. 80
A few quotes:
-Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of uncertainty( Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize-winning physicist).
-All scientific methods fail when questions of origins are involved (Wolfgang Pauli, Nobel winner for Physics).
-Universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts that do not make evolutionary sense (Richard Dawkins admission).
-Science can tell you if you add strychnine to someone's drink it will kill them. But science cannot tell you wheter it is morally right or wrong to pu7t strychnine into your grandmother's tea so that you can get your hands on her property. (Oxford prof, John Lennox)
In a careful and gracious way, Blanchard points out the flaws in Dawkins own belief system while underscoring the validity of faith in God, in the Bible, and in Jesus Christ. Highly recommended.
In this short volume he deals with Dawkins arrogant claims that people of faith are blind and ignorant bigots. From an atheist bigot talking about others? Blanchard never resorts to the kind of hyperbole often used by Dawkins, nor does he set up straw men to knock down, Dawkins' chief method. He quotes other atheist to throw doubt on Dawkins' claims that science has the answer to everything, that evolution determines morality, that religion is the root of all evil, that God does not exist, that the Bible is full of violence, inconsistencies and dangerous teaching.
While Dawkins equates belief in God on a par with belief in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy; psychiastrist Kathleen Jones says more accurately that "when we talk about our onw faith, we mean what we personally believe in as a result of using common sense, logic and experience. We do not mean superstition, wishful thinking, self-delusion." p. 80
A few quotes:
-Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of uncertainty( Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize-winning physicist).
-All scientific methods fail when questions of origins are involved (Wolfgang Pauli, Nobel winner for Physics).
-Universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts that do not make evolutionary sense (Richard Dawkins admission).
-Science can tell you if you add strychnine to someone's drink it will kill them. But science cannot tell you wheter it is morally right or wrong to pu7t strychnine into your grandmother's tea so that you can get your hands on her property. (Oxford prof, John Lennox)
In a careful and gracious way, Blanchard points out the flaws in Dawkins own belief system while underscoring the validity of faith in God, in the Bible, and in Jesus Christ. Highly recommended.
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