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Richard Dawkins

On Richard Dawkins and His Many Gods

September 29, 2019 by Randal

I just set out to tweet on Richard Dawkins’ new book Outgrowing God. My quick comment became several tweets and I decided to repost those tweets here. And so, without further ado: The first chapter of Richard Dawkins’ new anti-religious screed is titled “So many gods!” And it points out that — wait for it […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, atheism, Richard Dawkins, village atheism

How do you defend the Bible to those who dismiss it as the product of savage minds?

September 14, 2016 by Randal

The other day I received an emailed question from a reader which focused on the problem of genocide in the Bible. The reader asked: “If someone brought up these biblical narratives [of genocide], as Dawkins and the like have, as a means of discrediting the Christian faith and the biblical text how would you respond?” Note […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, inspiration, revelation, Richard Dawkins

Dawkins’ Central Argument: Reflections on the Worst Arguments Against Christianity (Part 1)

June 22, 2016 by Randal

I asked for my readers to share some of the worst arguments against Christianity … and they did not disappoint. In this article I’m going to begin a series working through those arguments. First up, we have Adam Omelianchuk who takes issue with Richard Dawkins’ central argument against God as presented in Dawkins’ massive bestseller The God […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, atheism, design argument, Richard Dawkins

Did the Church of England troll Richard Dawkins?

February 14, 2016 by Randal

Following reports of Richard Dawkins’ minor stoke this past Friday, the Church of England promptly tweeted a call for church goers to pray for Dawkins: According to an article in The Guardian, several of Dawkins’ followers promptly accused the church of “trolling”. (“Trolling” involves making online posts that are intentionally offensive in order to anger […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Church of England, new atheism, prayer, Richard Dawkins, trolling

A Limited Appetite for Wonder

February 10, 2016 by Randal

There is no doubt that Richard Dawkins has an appetite for wonder. The title of his memoir tells us so. If that’s too cheeky, then let me hasten to add that I have no doubt he does have an appetite for wonder. While I haven’t read Dawkins’ memoir, I have read several of his other […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: An Appetite for Wonder, materialism, naturalism, Richard Dawkins

Freethinking children? Not so much.

January 17, 2016 by Randal

Today I came upon the following tweet courtesy of a retweet by Secular Outpost. (As a disclaimer, Secular Outpost does not consider a retweet an endorsement of the tweet. Nor, for that matter, do I.) Meet Zea, the 7-year-old who stood up to a homophobic hate preacher this week by holding up a rainbow sign. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, education, freethought, ideology, indoctrination, Richard Dawkins

What chance has she?

August 22, 2015 by Randal

Richard Dawkins begins his famous 1991 essay “Viruses of the Mind” with the following words: “A beautiful child close to me, six and the apple of her father’s eye, believes that Thomas the Tank Engine really exists. She believes in Father Christmas, and when she grows up her ambition is to be a tooth fairy. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: education, freethought, pedagogy, Richard Dawkins, skepticism, worldview

Would you sacrifice your son if God told you to?

June 22, 2015 by Randal

Yesterday I noticed the following retweet from Secular Outpost in my feed: Dawkins’ question is an example of what I call the “If there is a God then everything is permitted” meme. According to this meme, theism leads to moral chaos because God could command actions that constitute moral atrocities. I frequently encounter this particular […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, divine command ethics, ethics, Richard Dawkins, theism

My new book on atheism is already bringing Christians and atheists together

June 10, 2015 by Randal

The picture speaks for itself. Here I am hanging out with my main man, Richard Dawkins. Apparently he loves my new book Is the Atheist My Neighbor? although he still thinks I’m a “faithhead”. Oh well, you can’t win ’em all!

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Richard Dawkins

Ignorance as a badge of honor? Fundamentalism among Christians and atheists

March 1, 2015 by Randal

If there is one thing Christian fundamentalists are good at doing, it is dismissing expert opinion. Of course, we all know that experts can be wrong. However, it is no small thing to reject a field of experts, and thus one would expect solid grounds to do so. Frequently, however, Christian fundamentalists are disturbingly cavalier […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, fundamentalism, Richard Dawkins, theism, theology

Does “The God Delusion” kill people?

November 3, 2014 by Randal

Thirty years ago teenager John Daniel McCollum shot and killed himself in his parents’ house while listening to the Ozzy Osbourne record Blizzard of Oz. When his grieving parents discovered that the album included the song “Suicide Solution” they proceeded with a lawsuit against Osbourne, arguing that the song was a proximate cause of their […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Richard Dawkins, scapegoat, suicide, The God Delusion

If Richard Dawkins were king

August 22, 2014 by Randal

Plato famously opined that in his perfect city state great philosophers would serve as the supreme rulers. It is a common mantra among secularists today that we would surely want secular, non-religious people in that vaunted role. And it is easy to point to a contemporary example of a militant socio-political group with a distinct religious […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Down Syndrome, ethics, eugenics, Richard Dawkins, secularism, society

What are the chances?

May 17, 2014 by Randal

A friend of mine sent me this graphic this past week. Not only is it good for a laugh (or at least a smirk), but it also makes an important philosophical point. Just what that point is can be left up to discussion…

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, cosmic fine-tuning, God, intelligent design, Richard Dawkins, theism, universe

Why atheistic apologists are generally ignorant and/or dishonest according to Chris Hallquist’s methodology

July 1, 2013 by Randal

In the elegantly titled “Randal Rauser is not someone who it’s possible to have any sort of rational discussion about religion with” I provided a critical response to Chris Hallquist’s article “The ignorance and dishonesty of Christian apologetics, part 1: anti-evolutionism.” In my response I focused on a couple points, including the absurdity of Hallquist’s […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, atheism, Chris Hallquist, Keith Parsons, Richard Dawkins, theism

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