“The problem is that Dawkins doesn’t seem to be aware that he is doing this. He is unaware of the fact that he is looking out at the world through his own eyeballs, and his worldview, freighted with all kinds of radical assumptions, is simply invisible to him. What he sees is simply what “is,” …
And It Would be Nice
“Hume posited a chasm between is and ought and Dawkins is unable to engineer a bridge across the chasm. In fact, his attempts appear to consist almost entirely of, ‘Gee, wouldn’t it be nice if we had a bridge here?'” (The Deluded Atheist, p. 49)
Atheism and the Magic Flashlight
“Dawkins’ lack of epistemological awareness is nowhere more evident than here. He is the enlightened one. We are the ones in darkness. He explains our darkness completely. But given his explanation, he is just as much in the very same darkness. And not only will he not explain where he got the magic flashlight, he …
Because Information Is Spiritual
“But atheism requires an evolutionary explanation every bit as much as religious conviction does. And that explanation cannot appeal to the correspondence of the chemical reactions in the head to the events of the outside world — what a contrived business that would be. Given atheistic principles, we have no reason to assign any truth …
And What a Surprise It Was . . .
“Here I sit, Christian convictions bouncing around in my head, and Dawkins knows that this requires an explanation. Why have millions of years of evolutionary selection given us Arkansas Methodists, Brooklyn Jews, Saudi Muslims, and so on, ad infinitum? But in this book, the one set of convictions that requires no explanation at all would …
Look At Us Go
“I simply want to commend him for noticing that, on his premises, wide-spread religion was created by an impersonal process that was favoring the fittest” (The Deluded Atheist, p. 41).
An Epistemological Beach Ball
“God is the only judge. And He says in Scripture that unrighteous men suppress the truth. Their knowledge of God is like a giant beach ball that they have been holding under water for their entire time in the pool, and their arms are getting all trembly” (The Deluded Atheist, p. 16).
Yeah. What If?
“Now, what if the universe we live in has information embedded in it throughout? What if the triune God who spoke it all into existence has left notes everywhere? What if every living cell contains a library that makes the Library of Congress look like my grandkids’ coloring book collection?” (The Deluded Atheist, p. 22)
But Enough About Kant
“If you need to hang some really heavy things from your sky hook, make sure to fasten the socket for that sky hook at least fifteen feet higher in the air than you otherwise would. The bolts work better a little bit higher like that” (The Deluded Atheist, p. 17).
The Explanatory Power of Explosions
“A factory, for example, full of fantastically complex machinery and robots for the manufacturing of various ingenious devices of intricate design, is something that cannot itself be designed. For when confronted with a world full of designed things, it is not unscientific to allow that many of them were in fact designed, so long as …