Category Archives: Richard Dawkins

In Soviet Russia, theology misrepresents Dawkins!

No matter what else you think of it, The God Delusion undeniably accomplished one thing: people are still arguing about it–not just the general issues the book discusses, but the book itself–four years after its publication. I’d cite examples, but just skim the recent posts at Ophelia’s or Jerry’s and you’ll find plenty. Malcolm Gladwell [...]

Philosophy of religion: which experts count?

The issue of expertise in philosophy of religion is something I’ve written about before. Over the past week, I had a series of “holy crap” moments related to this subject. The first was when Keith Parsons announced that he was going to quit writing about philosophy of religion and hand off his phil. religion courses [...]

Dawkins should challenge Craig to a debate on evolution

John Loftus has been covering William Lane Craig’s attempts to get Dawkins to debate him. I basically agree with the first comment left on John’s post: Actually, I really doubt that Dawkins knows who Craig is. Outside of hardcore apologist circles and skeptics who find him annoying enough to be worth responding to, nobody really [...]

Science books: what are they good for?

Chris Mooney has a nice post up debunking Stephen Meyer on the history of science and the value of peer review. I’ll pile on here: even if scientific revolutions are important, this isn’t a problem for peer review. I work in philosophy, where people often try to strike out in radically new directions (say, in [...]

Breathtaking historical ignorance watch

From a recent Newsweek column, via Jerry Coyne: But this version of the conversation [the version represented by Harris, Dawkins, and Hitchens--ed.] has gone on too long. We have allowed three people to frame it; its terms—submitting God to rational proofs and watching God fail—are theirs. But this approach to discussing religion far pre-dates Harris. [...]