Re: [asa] Quote of the Day re: Dawkins

Yes, it is certainly amusing! I am now reading
McGrath's previous book "Dawkins' God" and finding it
worthwhile.

Noteworthy, "Darwinism is too big a theory to be
limited to the field of biology." (119) Here McGrath
challenges the notion of 'memes' that Dawkins coined
in 1976. Yes, I was born then and no, it makes not
much sense to use 'memes' as an cultural analogy to
biology.

Dawkins' ideologizing is most evident when he steps
outside his field(s) of 'expertise' to explore
evolution, creation and ID as they related to
philosophy, theology and culturology. Unfortunately,
this sort of thing is displayed not only by Dawkins,
but a surprising number of people who inevitably must
take the word of scholars in fields other than their
own as 'living truth' or inference to the best
explanation. Memes, however, are not the 'best
explanation;' neither is the 'God virus' something
that relgious persons should tolerate as if it were
'just science' coming from a 'professor of public
understanding of science.'

Does anyone think Pim is reading McGrath's views on
Dawkins or just defending a staunch
atheist-evolutionist from a Christian perspective?

Lots of folly, soon time to volley.
g.a.
 
--- David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, it's an amusing quote, for one, and I'm
looking forward to reading McGrath's book, for
another, but maybe even more importantly, Ruse's
reaction seems to support the notion that most of us
here have not misread Dawkins.
>
> > On 7/9/07, David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > "The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an
> atheist, and the McGraths show why." -- Michael
Ruse, blurbing Alister and Joanna McGrath's new book,
"The Dawkins Delusion."

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Received on Mon Jul 9 15:12:28 2007