The Dawkins Defeat

Michael

You can write so well so it’s disappointing to see you come out with such an empty argument with virtually no substance. There’s a great point to be made but you fail to do so and instead appeal to the lowest common denominator with titles such as ‘The Dawkins Defeat’. Why? You made assumptions which are out of context with Dawkins’ own beliefs and then attack him for using them. It makes no sense to me. I think you really missed a trick here. So much promise but you seemed more interested in making a point than tackling the subject. Ironic considering that you blamed Dawkins for doing the same thing. …

Michael,
I considered adding question mark to the title – would that have helped?

I’m puzzled that the article struck you the way it did. Which assumptions are out of context? I think I tackled the subject quite well, which was basically “Has The God Delusion accomplished what Dawkins hoped it would?”

Here’s a comment from the comment section at digital journal:
“Posted 5 hours ago by [Citizen Journalist] unusualsuspect #12
As a life-long atheist, I have to agree with much of what you said. I’m half way through The God Delusion, and pretty much stuck. While I respect Dawkins as a scientist, logic and facts, and a long book full of dissertations on the anthropic principle and similar matters are pretty irrelevant to religious belief.The book would be much more useful if Dawkins had some knowledge of human psychology. As it is, I suspect that it’s pretty much of a bore for most people, even for “ordinary” atheists like myself. And the smarmy attitude toward religionists isn’t any more acceptable than the same attitude toward non-believers, coming from religionists.”

I guess I don’t understand your objection, but I’m willing to be corrected.

Take some responsibility, stop blaming Dawkins

I’m getting very tired of listening to ‘moderate’ Christians taking shots at atheists like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris for the tone in which they write. It has become a popular pastime to criticize because they take a hard line wit…