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  • Through a Glass, Darkly [Athiest reviews Dawkins's new book]

    10/28/2003 7:42:20 PM PST · by Russian Sage · 17 replies · 463+ views
    American Scientist ^ | recently | Michael Ruse
    Through a Glass, Darkly Michael Ruse A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love. Richard Dawkins. viii + 263 pp. Houghton Mifflin, 2003. $24. Richard Dawkins once called me a "creep." He did so very publicly but meant no personal offense, and I took none: We were, and still are, friends. The cause of his ire—his anguish, even—was that, in the course of a public discussion, I was defending a position I did not truly hold. We philosophers are always doing this; it's a version of the reductio ad absurdum argument. We do so partly to stimulate...