The undeluded believer

LDS Science Review gathers links to responses to Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion. In "A Mission to Convert" at the New York Review of Books, an evolutionary biologist writes, "The most disappointing feature of The God Delusion is Dawkins's failure to engage religious thought in any serious way." He further comments:

Dawkins when discussing religion is, in effect, a blunt instrument, one that has a hard time distinguishing Unitarians from abortion clinic bombers. What may be less obvious is that, on questions of God, Dawkins cannot abide much dissent, especially from fellow scientists (and especially from fellow evolutionary biologists).

LDSSR also links to two reviews by LDS authors, "Selling the Soul of Science for a Pot of Message," at BYU Studies ("Fallacies litter the logical trail of The God Delusion"), and "Ideology in the Guise of Science," at FARMS.

Comments

[chris g]

I have really been impressed with Wilson's Darwin's Cathedral. It really shows another side to how this debate could have gone. While he doesn't directly engage with religion, he has an open and understanding approach. It is nice to see what science and religion starting to get put together fro greater understandings of the world and our experience in it.

I still can't fathom the delusional attacks on religion. At the very least religious tendencies are a very real part of human nature (or a normally distributed genetic make up).

[chris g]

Some people may also find this link from science & religion news critiquing Dawkin's BBC show on Darwin interesting.

[Jared*]

Thanks for the nod, Dave.