The Gawd Delusion

[dreamer_easy]

Yesterday I read the Harpers review of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion. I am still flinching from reading the book, but if the review is accurate, Dawkins has made some embarrassingly basic cockups of fact and logic, some of which even I could have pointed out. I commented recently on how infuriating it is to be derided, or to see someone derided, on the basis of strawmen. I think I'd better wait to read the book until the dentist has made me that appliance to stop me grinding my teeth.

Comments

[phlegethon-vii.livejournal.com]

It's an interesting, if a little hard going, book.

I found much of the argument within it to be like...how do I put this? A theological expansion on the idea that all human interaction is governed by a biological imperative. A religious 'selfish gene' if you will; aka it's on the shallow, black and white side, and it's full of holes.

That's just my opinion of course. And I'm speaking as somebody who, despite their own spiritual beliefs, isn't a great supporter of organized religion.

[phlegethon-vii.livejournal.com]

Hehe, just read your most recent post on the subject. Seems I'm not the only one who came to that conclusion :p.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I think I'd better wait to read the book until the dentist has made me that appliance to stop me grinding my teeth.

Dawkins's brand of intellectual fundamentalism freaks me out to the point where I actually tense up whenever I see his books. Since I'm now working in a bookstore, and The God Delusion is a new release, this is a problem...

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I have that gut resonse - "Get off my side!" Then I realise that, as a religious person, I'm not on his side. This must be what it's like to be a sincere Christian and hear some fool making extreme statements about abortion clinics or Tinky Winky.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I have that gut resonse - "Get off my side!" Then I realise that, as a religious person, I'm not on his side.

Well, he defines his side as the rational intellectual one. So most people are automatically going to assume they're on it.