Sunday, 4th of March, 2007

…and back to linklogging again. Just a link to a very thoughtful article by Vancouver philosopher Stan Persky on Dawkins’ The God Delusion, which makes some good points in its favour against its critics on the more-or-less atheistic side of the fence. Persky admits that the book could have been better, but that it probably does a good enough job for now, in the context that it’s not meant to be an all-encompassing piece of philosophy or theology — it’s meant to be a middle-brow polemic aimed at giving believers a way out. It’s consciousness-raising, as Dawkins puts it.
A remarkable number of the reviewers of The God Delusion, as with Dennett’s Breaking the Spell before it, simply have not read the book. Which is kinda funny, and kinda sad… (and of course completely unsurprising).

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