To: hocndoc
From this review, it appears Dawkins is seriously out of his element and makes a bunch of banal arguments. He seems ignorant of the history of Christian theology and doesn't engage the major apologists and philosophers
I think I'll pass on this book.
To: colorado tanker
The trouble is that Dawkins is frozen at the 13 year old anarchist/nihilist stage of philosophical development, and he has quite a following of stunted fellows.
43 posted on
01/04/2007 10:58:59 AM PST by
hocndoc
(http://www.lifeethics.org/www.lifeethics.org/index.html)
To: colorado tanker
A rehash of Enlightenment views of religion, but, as the reviewer points out, in Victorian language and with arguments better made by Lord Russell. Russell was at least a competent philosopher if also personally a cad.
54 posted on
01/04/2007 11:51:43 AM PST by
RobbyS
( CHI)
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