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Sunday 29 October 2006

Eagleton on Dawkins

Terry Eagleton has a review of Dawkins's The God delusion here. (London Review of Books 28 (20) 19 October 2006.  Eagleton starts:

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:19 pm

    Hi Steve:

    You should try this too:

    http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/10/29/the-god-conundrum/

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  2. Anonymous4:19 pm

    And this!

    http://www.paulnixon.org/?linkid=1221

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  3. I see that "anons" have a little cottage industry trying to diss Terry Eagleton's review. Here's a take which, among other things, explains why his use of language is not inappropriate, as cosmicvariance suggests.
    http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/barrow/article_06114disaster.shtml

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