Saturday, October 22, 2011

Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion: My Posts


For those of us who teach philosophy of religion the arrival of Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion was a God-send. It stirred up the God-discussion, at least from a professor's point of view. Things were getting a bit boring. But then in road "The Four Horsemen!" (Dawkins has referred to four members of the New Atheist movement - himself, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens - as "The Four Horsemen", alluding to the biblical "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.)

It's hard to say what other real impact The God Delusion has made. Even though some people buy books like this, it's hard to say how many actually read them. (This was discovered with the book The Closing of the American Mind, which was called the book everybody bought but nobody actually read.) When I ask my philosophy of religion students the question "Have you heard of Richard Dawkins?" only 5% say "Yes."

Here are the posts I made on my reading of Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion.

God Delusion #1

God Delusion #2 - Einstein was a atheist

God Delusion #3 - Emerson

God Delusion #4 - Anachronistic Displacement

God Delusion #5 - The Fallacy of Suppressed Evidence

God Delusion # 6 - A False Dichotomy

God Delusion # 7 - The Mind Reader

God Delusion # 8 - Causality in Esse

God Delusion #9 - The NYT Book Review

God Delusion #10 - Dawkins' Straw Men Exposed

God Delusion #11 - Terry Eagleton rips Dawkins

God Delusion #12 - Wired

God Delusion #13 - The Ontological Argument

God Delusion #14: More Anachronistic "Logic"

God Delusion #15: Religious experience and the Human Brain

God Delusion #16: Dawkins vs. Collins

God Delusion #17: Theism Causes Wars?

Anti "God Delusion" #1: Francis Collins on the Moral Law as Key to the Meaning of the Universe

God Delusion #18: All Psychologists Doubt Religious Experience?

God Delusion #19: H. Allen Orr Finds Dawkins's GD Horrific

God Delusion #20: Scot McKnight on Dawkins

God Delusion #21: P.Z. Myers' Tries to Save Dawkins By Telling a Fable

God Delusion #22: Dawkins as Bible Scholar: Part 1

God Delusion #23: Dawkins as Bible Scholar: Part 2

God Delusion #24: Dawkins vs. David Sloan Wilson

God Delusion #25: Alvin Plantinga Weighs In

The God Delusion #26: W. L. Craig Responds

The God Delusion #27: David Sloan Wilson's Critique of Dawkins

The God Delusion #28: The Attempt to Rescue Richard Dawkins

The God Delusion #29: The McGraths' Critique of Dawkins #1

The God Delusion #30: McGrath #2 - "Delusion"

The God Delusion #31: The McGraths & Martin Luther

The God Delusion #32: The McGrath's on "But Who Made God?"

The God Delusion #33: Dawkins Now Selling T-shirts

The God Delusion #34: Dawkins and the "God of the Gaps?

The God Delusion #35: Science Has Disproved God?

The God Delusion #36: The Naive "Science Explains Everything" Outlook

The God Delusion #37: Freud and the Future of an Illusion

The God Delusion #38: NOMAs & POMAs

The Dawkins Delusion #39: Should a Real Scientist Be an Atheist?

The God Delusion #40: How Richard Dawkins Helps Us

The God Delusion #41: Dawkins as an Embarrassment to Other Atheists

The God Delusion #42: Dawkins's "Pseudointellectual Drivel"

The God Delusion #43: Dawkins's Feuerbachian Roots

The God Delusion #44: Another Atheist Notes the "Thinness" of Neo-Atheism

The God Delusion #45: Dawkins's Mouth Puts Publisher in Danger

The God Delusion #46: Craig's Criticisms of Dawkins