Richard Dawkins and “The God Delusion”: Old Testament Atrocities (Part 17)
In our trek through Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion, we have now come to chapter 7, where he turns his attention specifically to the Bible. Let me say up fron...
Category: Book Review
Richard Dawkins and The God Delusion: “I’ve Got Me a Moral Disposition in my Jeans!” (Part 16)
In case you haven’t noticed, I find Richard Dawkins fascinating—not exactly in a positive sense, though. What I mean is that I am genuinely mystified by much of...
Memes! Memes! I Feel God Deep Down in My Memes! (Part 15: The God Delusion)
In this post, I’m going to address what Richard Dawkins specifically says about what he calls “religious memes.” If you don’t know what ...
Richard Dawkins and “The God Delusion”: Natural Selection, Religion, and Meme Theory (Part 14)
When I first read The God Delusion back in 2011, that was the first time I had ever come across “Meme Theory.” Now, you have probably heard the term “internet m...
Richard Dawkins and “The God Delusion”–Natural Selection and Psychosis (Part 13)
Natural Selection, YEC, GG, and ID, and Another Dawkins-Ham Connection Richard Dawkins describes natural selection as a gradual process of adaptations in life, ...
Richard Dawkins and “The God Delusion”: Natural Selection, I.D., and the Existence of God (Part 12)
Now that I have taken a good 3-4 weeks off from analyzing The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, I think it is time to get back to it. I have already written 11 p...
Book Review: “The Sin of Certainty” by Peter Enns
Enns, Peter. The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our “Correct” Beliefs. New York: HarperOne, 2016 (211 pages + Notes) Peter En...
Richard Dawkins Hates Beauty! (Well, not quite, but he’s not convinced by the Argument from Beauty) (Part 10)
In the past two posts, we’ve looked at Richard Dawkins’ attempt to discredit the five “proofs” for God’s existence that medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas came ...
Richard Dawkins and Thomas Aquinas’ 4th and 5th Proofs for God’s Existence (Part 9)
Yesterday, we looked at how Richard Dawkins failed to understand Thomas Aquinas’ first three “proofs” for the existence of God. Instead of even attempting to un...
Richard Dawkins’ Failed Critique of Thomas Aquinas (Part 8)
“Proving” the existence of God in any rationalistic, scientific sense is going to be a futile endeavor. The reason why is, not because God doesn’t exist, but ra...