A Review of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion Part XVII
Listen to the MP3 The latter part of the Richard Dawkins’, “The God Delusion” becomes increasingly speculative as he applies his view of atheism and religion to topics such as homosexuality, abortion, and children and these issues would be better treated in more general discussion of the individual topics than a specific review of Dawkins’ […]
Read More..>>A Review of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion Part XVI
Listen to the MP3 In the last installment of my review of Richard Dawkins’, “The God Delusion” I looked at Dawkins’ arguments for why we can’t use the Bible as the basis for our morality. But if we cannot use the Bible then where should we get our morals? For Dawkins, the answer to this […]
Read More..>>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 […]
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