[Dialogue] Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion"

[Adam Thomson]

 From Adam Thomson, Dover UK

I am in the middle of "The God Delusion". I think it is tremendous.

It is well written in a beautifully elegant style, and there's 
nothing in it that I can disagree with. In fact I don't think anyone 
connected with the wedgeblade can have a major problem with Dawkins' 
writing. In my opinion it is compatible with the "theology" that we 
worked with from the 60s onwards, in the sense that we were wrestling 
with the required mythology for our time.

In what I've read so far, Dawkins has not dealt with mythology as 
such, and it doesn't seem likely that he will in the second part - 
but he might.

Dawkins is not the sort of person who cares what people think of him, 
and he doesn't sugar any of his pills: if he were to set his 
arguments within the context of the role of mythology in life, maybe 
it would be easier for some people to take.

Either way, I think it is a very good book - well worth reading.

Adam

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At 15:56 21/11/2006, you wrote:
>In a message dated 11/20/2006 9:27:53 PM Mountain Standard Time, 
>h-wainwright at charter.net writes:
>SCIENCE   | November 21, 2006
><http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/21/science/21belief.html?ex=1164690000&en=662f4447cac7f547&ei=5070&emc=eta1>A 
>Free-for-All on Science and Religion
>By GEORGE JOHNSON
>Some scientists at a recent conference called on their colleagues to 
>be less timid in challenging teachings about nature based only on 
>scripture and belief.
>
>Good article, friends.  Look it up.  I liked the final "religion as 
>a crazy old auntie" image.
>
>Has anyone read Dawkins book, The God Delusion?
>
>Karen Bueno
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