Category Archives: Richard Dawkins

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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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 & “End of the Spear”

By Malgwyn | May 13, 2009

The following is an excerpt from End of The Spear by Steve Saint, Tyndale House Publishers (2005). You can get a gist of the book from reviews on Amazon. When I read things like this I instinctively think of our friend Richard Dawkins and his book, The God Delusion, a book which I confess has left [...]

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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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Dawkins and ‘A Change of Heart’

By Malgwyn | March 2, 2009

A Reply to: Dawkins’ Manx Shearwater
When Richard Dawkins in TGD ridicules Christians who claim to have had an experience with God he doesn’t show that he has grasped the concept or understands what that means in his pub talk illustration of the Manx Shearwater. When Christians refer to having an experience with God they usually [...]

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The God Delusion And Scandal

By Malgwyn | February 18, 2009

Albert Mohler’s review of The New Atheism is revealing and so is WorldNetDaily’s David Kupelian’s lengthy essay on “How Atheism Is Being Sold To America”. History tells us of terrible things done in the name of Christianity - but anyone who knows anything about the Christian faith will know that is a counterfeit Christianity - [...]

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Evolution And The New Atheist’s Campaign of Hate

By Malgwyn | February 15, 2009

Why the New Atheist’s Campaign of Hate towards religion - but specifically Christianity? This essay by Albert Mohler from 2006 appraises the rise of the New Atheism as reported by Gary Wolf in Wired Magazine. Says Mohler, “At the beginning of his article, he gets right to the point: “The New Atheists will not let [...]

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Dawkins and Byron Garcia

By Malgwyn | January 9, 2009

A Reply to: Dawkins’ Manx Shearwater
Whenever I come across a story like this my mind immediately reverts to The God Delusion where Richard Dawkins quotes Sam Harris, “While religious people are not generally mad, their core beliefs absolutely are.” And then I think of The Sunday Times Culture Magazine (21 October 07) describing TGD as [...]

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Dawkins & Weston Bible Week

By Malgwyn | January 8, 2009

Churches Together in Weston-super-Mare  have been running Weston Bible Week since 1980 with two weeks of the year given over for specially chosen national and international Bible teachers or speakers. In March 2008 it invited 3 speakers to address the issues raised by Richard Dawkins in his book, The God Delusion. The week’s lectures, “Scientists Look at [...]

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