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”Betty, I remember my very first post to you, several years ago. Dawkins was the subject then too! ”

Thanks for the quote you cite, beckett It is a perfect summation of my meaning when I say that Dawkins (among others) cannot claim what he advocates as a matter of positive knowledge, he can only claim that he is helpless to believe anything other than what he does, in fact, believe.

And my dear Mz boop, I believe you’re correct when you say Dawkins is becoming more strident as time goes by (he’s not the only one). He’s coming to realize, I think, that he has backed himself into an intellectual corner from which he cannot gracefully exit.

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--It is a perfect summation of my meaning when I say that Dawkins (among others) cannot claim what he advocates as a matter of positive knowledge, he can only claim that he is helpless to believe anything other than what he does, in fact, believe.--

I don't think Dawkins claims based on positive knowledge. Only that there is no positive knowledge to require a rational belief in God.

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He’s coming to realize, I think, that he has backed himself into an intellectual corner from which he cannot gracefully exit.

On the contrary, lol, by grace through faith is the only way he will exit! (:

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
~Ephesians 2:8

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
~Romans 5:8

(There's hope for that boy yet!)