[Dialogue] Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion"

[Bill Bailey]

Adam, a few weeks ago I read Dawkins' book and found it both profound and
helpful. I would gladly recommend it to anyone interested in the present
conversation going on between myth, historical facts, theism and a-theism).
I would also recommend Karen Armstrong's "The Great Transition" into the
spiritual values of the "Axial Age". 

 

Bill Bailey

 

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>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 

A
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/21/science/21belief.html?ex=1164690000&en=66
2f4447cac7f547&ei=5070&emc=eta1>  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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