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Is Richard Dawkins still evolving?

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On 21st October 2008, a debate was held between Professor Richard Dawkins and Dr John Lennox in Oxford’s Natural History Museum.

An earlier debate between the two of them can be downloaded here, and a talk by Lennox can be downloaded here.

The subject of the recent debate was Has Science Buried God? – echoing the title of a recent book by Lennox.

Melanie Phillips has a piece in The Spectator in which she notes, among other things, that

Dawkins now concedes that ‘a serious case could be made for a deistic God.’…

Dawkin’s God

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I would like to draw attention to a fascinating exchange between the well-known scientist and atheist Profession Dawkins and Dr Francis Collins (former director of the Human Genome Project and a Christian).

The debate is summarised in Time magazine and the relevant bit is found here.  Dawkins was asserting that we are ‘profoundly ignorant’ about questions such as, “Why am I here?”, and “What happens after we die?”

Interviewer: “Could the answer be God?”

Dawkins: “There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding.”…

Can we know God? – sermon notes

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[These are the notes of a sermon I preached at Holy Trinity, Norwich, in June 2007.  It was one in a short series in which we sought to address some of the issues raised by Prof Richard Dawkins in his well-known book, The God Delusion.  One or two people nearly fell off their seats when they heard what I had to say in the first 2 or 3 paragraphs.   But I was just teasing, as you will see:-]

Manx Shearwater! …

The trouble with Dawkins

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Professor Richard Dawkins is a clever chap, and a scintillating writer.  Some who read The God Delusion will be bowled over by his rhetoric.  But, as various replies have been showing, there are significant gaps in his knowledge and serious flaws in his argument.  For example, in attempting to demonstrate the extent to which people do Bad Things in the name of religion, he asserts that, conversely, ‘individual atheists may do evil things but they don’t do evil things in the name of atheism’ (p278).…