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

I looked at a copy today and decided not to buy it! It is short but that may be good for many readers.

Ruse can be curt /blunt/sharp but is always good natured. He does not suffer fools gladly, so I better duck.

How about this, I have just read a letter from CA Coulson to my uncle about a book he wrote on science and religion in 1952. A lovely pristine copy

Michael
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Iain Strachan
  To: David Opderbeck
  Cc: PvM ; asa
  Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 8:00 PM
  Subject: Re: [asa] Quote of the Day re: Dawkins

  I felt that McGrath's book was disappointingly short. As far as I can see, however, Orr's review blows Dawkins out of the water, and carries all the more weight being from someone who one would have thought would be on Dawkins's side (Orr states that "The Selfish Gene" is one of the best popular science books ever written). Orr is also a very strong critic of Intelligent Design and is about as devastating in criticism of both ID and Dawkins.

  Iain

  On 7/9/07, 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, PvM <pvm.pandas@gmail.com> wrote:
      And your point is exactly what?

      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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