Tag: Dawkins
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Theology and the New Physics [1] | Uncertainty
As exemplified by the arguments that science writer Philip Ball has stoked up by daring to criticise The Reason Project (Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris et al.), there are those on both sides who are desperate to draw ever harder lines between science and religion. I strongly believe that these lines are far softer that perhaps we’d…
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Marilynne Robinson | Dawkins | ‘An Intellectually and Culturally Informed Christianity’
A rare interview in today’s Guardian with the author of Gilead, Housekeeping and now Home, includes this lovely quote regarding Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens: “[Dawkins] acts as if the physical world that is manifest to us describes reality exhaustively. I’m not impressed with the quality of [his] writing, or of Christopher Hitchens’ writing. If…