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fauny fergus

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Re: Dawkins seems a bit *confused* here

Jun 29, 2009, 20:26

I think the problem with Dawkins is that he's totally out of his depth when he steps beyond evolutionary biology and comes across as a bit clueless. Mary Midgley always used to provide a useful and informed counterbalance (as opposed to swivel-eyed evangelicals):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/apr/20/religion-philosophy-hobbes-dawkins-selfishness

http://www.gaiaweb.uk.net/P200025T.htm

http://www.templeton.org/belief/essays/midgley.pdf

(she has written extensively elsewhere but these links were handy; one our most under-rated philosophers of recent times)

Whilst Terry Eagleton's review of the The God Delusion is pretty incisive

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n20/eagl01_.html

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