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on when reading Whitehead. First, he will look at the big picture. Second, he will generously give to all historical players the credit due
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God Delusion (Houghton Mifflin, 416 pages, $27).
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The Reformation and the scientific movement were two aspects of the [historical] revolt which was the dominant intellectual movement of the
later Renaissance. The appeal to the origins of Christianity, and Francis Bacon's appeal to efficient causes as against final causes, were
two sides of one movement of thought.
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I do not think...that I have even yet brought out the greatest contribution of medievalism to the formation of the scientific movement. I
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without hope.... My explanation is that
the faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivation
from medieval theology.
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universe's detailed rationality that was derived from medieval theology.
Don't look for anything like this kind of subtle analysis in The God Delusion. What you'll find, instead, is page after sarcastic page of
attacks against any foe Dawkins considers an easy target: Pat Robertson, Pastor Ted Haggard, Ann Coulter, a small fundamentalist school in
Northeast England (to which 7 of Dawkins' 374 pages are devoted), Pastor Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps, Dr. James Dobson, and, of course, G.
W. Bush -- who supposedly invaded Iraq because he was told to do so by God. Even poor Carl Jung is made into a kook by Dawkins for believing
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to encounter the concept of spontaneous book combustion. Dawkins, however, as with the comment about President Bush and Iraq, doesn't bother
to provide references for these claims.)
When it comes to magnanimity, here's a sample of the author's generosity: "To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just Office 2007 key is very convenient!
plain weird." This comment shows the contempt Dawkins consistently displays for ideas that don't conform to his own -- a bio-creed that
includes the following affirmations: life emerged on earth due to random interactions of material elements; life evolved from its primitive
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In truth, Dawkins' entire book is an exercise in contempt -- summarily dismissing Thomas Aquinas' theological arguments and devoting less
than 100 breezy pages to the whole issue of God's existence. The rest of Dawkins' book discusses -- with the jaundiced eye of an H. L.
Mencken in biological drag -- how religious beliefs are given undue social deference, why Einstein's references to God aren't religious, why
eastern religions aren't religions, why religion developed (socio-biologically), how the Bible is a Office 2007 download is helpful!
jumble of historical trash, how religion
promotes intolerance and undermines science, how Hitler may have been Catholic, why Stalin's atheism doesn't matter, why society doesn't need
religion to be moral, why Jefferson was probably an atheist (the non-mentioned God-statements on the Jefferson Memorial to the contrary
notwithstanding), why studying religion to understand literary references is okay, and why parents indoctrinating their children with
religious beliefs are guilty of child abuse. (The depth of Dawkins' political thought is shown by his failure to ponder for one second the
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