The McGrath Delusion – a response to The Dawkins Delusion, yet another theologian adding nothing!
December 18, 2009 – 4:37 pm | No Comment

The McGraths, although I suspect more Alister McGrath, created ‘The Dawkins Delusion’ an odd book which I read hoping to find some sort of logical argument against Dawkins. Right at the start of the book McGrath expressed a God Delusion moment of realisation,

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The McGrath Delusion – a response to The Dawkins Delusion, yet another theologian adding nothing!
December 18, 2009 – 4:37 pm | No Comment
The McGrath Delusion – a response to The Dawkins Delusion, yet another theologian adding nothing!

The McGraths, although I suspect more Alister McGrath, created ‘The Dawkins Delusion’ an odd book which I read hoping to find some sort of logical argument against Dawkins. Right at the start of the book McGrath expressed a God Delusion moment of realisation,

Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion – After the reaction by the religious!
December 7, 2009 – 7:00 pm | No Comment
Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion – After the reaction by the religious!

It’s been a while now since ‘The God Delusion’ has come out and there are many varying reviews about Dawkins work, yet Dawkins remains the stable diet for those wishing to dismiss both the author and the ‘fundamental atheists’.

The trajectory of the moral self – What we should really thank Christianity for!
August 28, 2009 – 3:02 pm | No Comment
The trajectory of the moral self – What we should really thank Christianity for!

As I have already questioned in my earlier post [here] there seems to be a false choice between being born with certain inbuilt characteristics or learning them through experience, there is an alternative way …

Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation: a review and update about the issues of human rights within religion!
July 9, 2009 – 5:14 pm | One Comment
Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation: a review and update about the issues of human rights within religion!

It is advisable you read the earlier post here – A short introduction to the rather new ‘Atheist’ [antitheists] movement!
Harris is perhaps one of the most intelligent people in the field of neo-antitheism, the …

A short introduction to the rather new ‘Atheist’ [antitheists] movement!
June 3, 2009 – 10:10 am | No Comment
A short introduction to the rather new ‘Atheist’ [antitheists] movement!

The antitheists argue from three areas of concern; the first is that of Truth, then proof and finally harm although I have not found anyone yet that speaks with intelligence that is simply attacking religion …

‘Expelled: No Intelligence allowed’ is completely correct; there is no intelligence in it!
November 3, 2008 – 12:58 pm | No Comment
‘Expelled: No Intelligence allowed’ is completely correct; there is no intelligence in it!

To really understand this documentary slash movie you have to first understand how Intelligent design came about, after all it should at least in theory be different from the theological understanding of why we are …

Help stop Sharia Law in the UK
October 21, 2008 – 12:42 pm | One Comment
Help stop Sharia Law in the UK

In matters of justice the statement ‘There but for the grace of God I go’ should never have to apply, we should demand the same result from any legal ruling to uphold the same standard. …

Why Hitler and the Nazis are not examples of the fundamental problems caused by atheists!
August 6, 2008 – 4:29 pm | 4 Comments
Why Hitler and the Nazis are not examples of the fundamental problems caused by atheists!

I don’t really understand why I am even having to write this post, still the subject keeps coming up in debates that religious people have with Dawkins, Harris and Hitchens to name a few, the …

Greg Koukl attacks Dawkins by citing fallacies although he does not understand his own!
August 5, 2008 – 10:07 am | No Comment
Greg Koukl attacks Dawkins by citing fallacies although he does not understand his own!

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Koukl is a religious man and the main point of disagreement is based upon the idea the new atheists make assumptions in order to make their argument work. In particular he attacks Dawkins in the …

Poor Ted Haggard simply a fool to himself!
July 15, 2008 – 7:12 pm | No Comment
Poor Ted Haggard simply a fool to himself!

Before I go on please let me introduce this is a theoretical concept to which some of it is based on the truth, while other facts are just media excitement about Haggard to which they …