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The Dawkins Delusion
"Alister McGrath dismantles the argument that science should lead to atheism, and demonstrates instead that Dawkins has abandoned his much-cherished rationality to embrace an embittered manifesto of dogmatic atheist fundamentalism."
( Francis Collins, Director of the Human Genome Project)
Over the last six months we have been bombarded with Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion as the BBC, Guardian, Independent and their equivalents have seized upon the bestselling book as literal scientific proof that God is merely a projected human fantasy.
Alister McGrath, an eminent scientist himself, demolishes Dawkins work in the most comprehensive way. At times the exposure is almost embarrassing as the phony science Dawkins uses to justify his pet hatred of religion is scrupulously destroyed.
Furthermore whatever your beliefs, if you have ever believed, or been tempted to believe, that science is somehow a barrier to faith then McGrath's short book puts this right in the most compelling way.
Politically, we also get a little glimpse of how and why those with Nazi and Stalinist tendencies have traditionally pushed the extreme atheist arguments and methods effectively rehashed by Dawkins.
I doubt, however that the media institutions that presume to govern how we are meant to see the world are going to do some 'fair and balanced' reporting here and give McGrath a fair hearing.
Best, as always, is to do your own homework and make up your own mind. Here's the link:
