Category Archives: The God Delusion

Dawkins & Superstition III

By Malgwyn | July 31, 2009

A Resume of Martin Luther’s Change of Heart and How We are Put Right With God
In my immediate previous posts one and two I responded to Professor Dawkins’ view of what he understands as ‘a personal experience with God’ (TGD, p. 87-92), with my own contrary views. Here I will finish with my view [...]

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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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A Scientist’s View on “Suffering and Death

By Malgwyn | May 26, 2009

A kind friend sent me a link - he thought I would appreciate the blog - and so I do. I can see I will be more than dipping into this blog. It leaves me a bit like when I read Darwin’s Black Box - I couldn’t put it down. While Behe did a good [...]

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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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