The Dawkins Delusion (Part 2): “A Deeply Religious Non-Believer” (Chapter 1)
Dawkins: The Philosophical Naturalist The first chapter of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion is entitled “A Deeply Religious Non-Believer.” In it, Dawkins makes...
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Disarming Richard Dawkins’ Delusions (Part 1)
Ah, the Gospel of Atheism! Atheism fascinates me. Not the kind of atheism in which someone simply says, “I don’t believe God exists,” and then just goes about l...
Sam Harris and “The End of Faith”: Conclusion 10:2
Sam Harris perhaps represents the most dangerous form of atheism. It is inflammatory, irrational, hostile, and missionary. He is not content to “let the facts s...
Sam Harris and “The End of Faith”: Conclusion–Part 10:1
Now we come to the conclusion of my critique of Sam Harris’s book, The End of Faith. What I have attempted to show in this detailed analysis is the following: H...
Sam Harris and “The End of Faith”: Scientific Spirituality and a Hopeless Contradiction (Part 9)
Sam Harris’ final chapter in The End of Faith is entitled, “Experiments in Consciousness.” In light of the basic premise of his book (i.e. faith is destructive ...
Sam Harris and “The End of Faith”: A Science of Good and Evil? (Part 8:2)
Yesterday, I began to look at Sam Harris’ attempt to root morality within the field of science. Needless to say, such a claim is highly problematic. As I should...
Sam Harris and “The End of Faith”: Can Science be the Basis of Morality? (Part 8:1)
Despite his attacks on religion and “faith,” atheist Sam Harris nevertheless holds to his own presuppositional faith in “science,” namely that there can be a “s...
Sam Harris and “The End of Faith”: Let’s Get Reasonable about Religion, the Death Penalty, Drugs and Sex (Part 7)
At the very beginning of his book, Sam Harris makes this very true statement: “Your beliefs define your vision of the world; they dictate your behavior; they de...
Sam Harris and “The End of Faith”: Faith and Intolerance (Part 6)
We’ve now come to the point in our analysis of Sam Harris’ book, The End of Faith, where we will look at the specific things he has to say about “faith.” ...
Sam Harris and “The End of Faith”: A Biblical Scholar, He Ain’t (Part 5)
I’ve found that in the course of my critiques of books by atheist writers like Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris, that it is actually quite invigorating exerc...