The God Delusion -IV

The God Delusion is sure to garner significant attention in the media and in popular culture. Dawkins, along with the other fashionable skeptics and atheists of the day, makes for good television and creates an instant media sensation. In one sense, we should be thankful for the forthrightness with which he presents his arguments. [...]

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The Delusion of Dawkins – III

Richard Dawkins considers the existence of God to be nothing more than a scientific hypothesis, just like any other. He presents his case that “the factual premise of religion, the God Hypothesis, is untenable.” In other words, “God almost certainly does not exist.”
So why do so many persons trust in Him? Unwavering with his [...]

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The Delusion of Dawkins – II

Dawkins states, real scientists are naturalists. As such, they eliminate entirely the question of a supernatural being’s existence. “The metaphorical or pantheistic God of the physicists is light years away from the interventionist, miracle-wreaking, thought-reading, sin-punishing, prayer-answering God of the Bible, of priests, mullahs and rabbis, and of ordinary language. Deliberately to confuse the two [...]

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The Delusion of Dawkins

“I do not, by nature, thrive on confrontation,” declares Richard Dawkins, the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at  Oxford University and one of the world’s foremost skeptics regarding Christianity and faith in God.
Dawkins is well known as a cerebral rival to all forms of religious belief–and of Christianity in particular. He [...]

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