A Review of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion Part XV
Listen to the MP3 In chapter 7 of his book, “The God Delusion” Richard Dawkins, turn the issue of morality and the Bible. Dawkins lays down his goal pretty clearly in the opening paragraph when he says that the Bible, “encourages a system of morals which any civilized modern person whether religious or not, would […]
Read More..>>A Review of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion Part XIV
Listen to the MP3 In this part of my review of Richard Dawkins’, “The God Delusion” I will continue my look at Dawkins’ speculations on the roots of morality. Dawkins rejection of God and acceptance of evolution forces him to find an evolutionary basis of morality. He admits that “On the face of it, the […]
Read More..>>A Review of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion Part XII
Listen to the MP3 In this part of my review of Richard Dawkins’, “The God Delusion” I come to the chapter where Dawkins discusses the roots of religion. These next two chapters, this on the origin of Religion and the next on the origin of Morality both suffer from a problem that is common not […]
Read More..>>Free Will
Listen to the MP3 Dec 14, 2007, Wausau, Wi — Last time I looked at the issue of Free Inquiry and the skeptic’s false claim that they were free to go wherever the evidence leads, while Christians were limited by their religious beliefs. But there is a deeper more subtle problem with the skeptic’s claim that […]
Read More..>>A Review of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion Part XI
Listen to the MP3 Nov 9, 2007, Wausau, Wi — Last time in my review of Richard Dawkins’, “The God Delusion” I looked at the flaws in the first three point of what Dawkins calls “the central argument of my book.” Again, he summarizes this argument in the following six points: 1 – The appearance of […]
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