The anti-abortionist’s next move in the verbal chess game usually goes something like this. The point is not whether a human embryo can or cannot suffer at…… Read more “Murdering the future: Richard Dawkins and The Great Beethoven Fallacy”
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Richard Dawkins: It’s illogical to demand scientific evidence for scientific claims
Many evolutionary transitions are elegantly documented by more or less continuous series of gradually changing intermediate fossils. Some are not, and these are the famous ‘gaps’. Michael…… Read more “Richard Dawkins: It’s illogical to demand scientific evidence for scientific claims”
“Poor Midianites”? Why Dawkins’s evaluation of their slaughter in the Old Testament is half-baked
It’s a common tactic to see skeptics point to the slaughtering of nations while overlooking the nations’ immorality and the divine justice against them.
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The Illusion of Design: Dawkins’ anti-naturalist argument
Dawkins: “It looks designed, but it’s an illusion. You think it’s designed, but you’re deluded. As if my book, The God Delusion, isn’t a dead giveaway…”
“Who Designed the Designer?”: the mixing categories fallacy
If “who baked the baker,” “who cooked the cook,” or “who wrote the writer” aren’t valid questions, then Dawkins’s question about the Designer is seriously illogical.
Divine Creation is No Magic Trick: The error of the Dawkins analogy
Richard Dawkins has confused the origin of life, which no man has seen, with magic tricks that are observable and repeatable. Sounds like a mixing of categories to me.
God as infinite regress: Darwinian evolution and the “designer God” argument
Placing God in infinite regress isn’t as easy for an evolutionist as it sounds.
Defending the Gospels of Matthew and Luke: A Response to Richard Dawkins
When the gospels were written, many years after Jesus’ death, nobody knew where he was born. But an Old Testament prophecy (Micah 5:2) had led Jews to…… Read more “Defending the Gospels of Matthew and Luke: A Response to Richard Dawkins”
Why Science Cannot Comment on God
The theologian Alister McGrath makes it the central point of his book Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes and the Origin of Life. Indeed, after his admirably fair summary…… Read more “Why Science Cannot Comment on God”
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