Atheist philosopher Michael Ruse rips into the best-selling author of The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins:
“It is not that the atheists are having a field day because of the brilliance and novelty of their thinking. Frankly — and I speak here as a nonbeliever myself, pretty atheistic about Christianity and skeptical about all theological claims — the material being churned out is second rate. And that is a euphemism for “downright awful.”
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“It is simply that it (and the other works, some of which I have gone after elsewhere) is not very good. For a start, Dawkins is brazen in his ignorance of philosophy and theology (not to mention the history of science).”
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“Dawkins misunderstands the place of the proofs, but this is nothing to his treatment of the proofs themselves. This is a man truly out of his depth.”
Many read Dawkins’ works with a blind faith that the guy knows what he is talking about. It just isn’t so.
Ruse’s book review is in Isis, December 2007, 98(4), 814-816
I got the quotes from the Isis article from www.arn.org.
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