Category Archives: Darwin's bicentenary

Richard Dawkins & The Christian Family

By Malgwyn | August 4, 2009

It’s very difficult to let go of Dawkins after reading The God Delusion. Perhaps I never will. It is not just that he is such a persuasive writer who is so anti towards Christian ideals but is so anti towards Christian parenting - they are accused of child-abuse for teaching their children Christian ideals. I [...]

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Dawkins & Superstition II

By Malgwyn | July 31, 2009

In my previous post, re-Dawkins understanding of a ‘personal experience with God’ (TGD, p.87-92), I express the thought that far from superstition there is something more powerful and good going on in human experience when Christians talk about having an experience with God. (Atheist Matthew Parris recognized something inexplicable when real Christianity is observed [...]

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Dawkins & Superstition

By Malgwyn | July 24, 2009

I’ve been too long away from my atheist friend, Professor Richard Dawkins. In TGD Richard Dawkins ridicules the idea that an individual can have a personal experience with God. Picked up by Wikipedia, Dawkins uses the illustration of the Manx Shearwater to show how religious belief arises from superstition. In his younger days one of his [...]

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Genesis and Theories of Evolution

By Malgwyn | July 16, 2009

“The big takeaway from Genesis is that the magnificent works of creation are not the products of some step-wise, glacial process of nature and necessity, but of an abrupt outpouring of divine intent and power. It is a repeated pattern. Throughout the sweep of scripture, God’s creative, curative, and miraculous works come suddenly and completely, [...]

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150 Years & Still Introducing Evolution!

By Malgwyn | July 7, 2009

The BBC reported yesterday, “An exam board has scrapped a GCSE biology question about creationism after admitting it could be misleading. The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance paper asked pupils how the Bible’s theory of creation seeks to explain the origins of life.”
Says Graeme Paton, Education Editor for the Telegraph, “James Williams, lecturer in education at [...]

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Ida Hype: A Publicity Stunt!

By Malgwyn | May 27, 2009

I watched David Attenborough on BBC1 last night - “Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor: The Link.” As one who has enjoyed Attenborough’s nature programmes I wonder does it do any good for his ‘street cred’ to get involved in the Origin’s debate this way? True, he is a convinced evolutionist and has no time for the [...]

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Dawkins V Christianity’s Transformation of Culture

By Malgwyn | May 21, 2009

I was reading this link again on my last post to Mark Earley’s comment on, End of the Spear. When I read things like this I can’t help keep coming back to Professor Dawkins’ book, The God Delusion, and to The Sunday Times Culture Magazine’s endorsement of the book (21 October 07) describing TGD as [...]

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Dawkins & Christianity in China

By Malgwyn | May 12, 2009

In his review of The God Delusion, Roy Adams reminds us of what Dawkins thinks of God: “The God of the Old Testament,” he says, “is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction [the words are loaded]: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, [...]

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Dawkins and A. N. Wilson

By Malgwyn | May 4, 2009

I could identify with Wilson’s remark. “Why did I, along with so many others, become so dismissive of Christianity?”
Said, Wilson, “Like most educated people in Britain and Northern Europe (I was born in 1950), I have grown up in a culture that is overwhelmingly secular and anti-religious. The universities, broadcasters and media generally are not [...]

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Darwin’s Bicentenary in Weston-super-Mare

By Malgwyn | April 21, 2009

Darwin’s Bicentenary is drawing responses from opposing views on origins - up and down the country I suppose. I can only speak for Weston-super-Mare’s vibrant Christian Community . But a recent survey showed that belief in Creationism is widespread in the UK.
“Was Darwin Right?” is the topic for an origin’s presentation at Holy Trinity Church  [...]

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