Richard Dawkins' Latest Venture
This morning in reading through some blog posts elsewhere, I came across a piece from Ekklesia on Richard Dawkins' latest venture -- to flood schools with anti-religious literature. The post quotes from several secular scientists who make clear that Dawkins' views, and those of Sam Harris, are rather simplistic and ultimately damage the cause of science.
Being more theologian than scientist (that is an understatement if ever there be one), I too find the arguments overly simplistic. Dawkins conveniently ignores theologians/philosophers such as Tillich, Hartshorne, and the philosopher/mathematician Whitehead, or contemporary theologians such as Welker and Moltmann, just for instances! He does take shots at John Polkinghorne, but my sense is that this is from a distance. Polkinghorne is a highly regard physicist and trained theologian -- bringing together something that Dawkins can't.
There is a middle ground between the militant secularism of Dawkins and the obscurantism of the Young Earth Creationists. But it seems like these two camps are yelling the loudest!
Being more theologian than scientist (that is an understatement if ever there be one), I too find the arguments overly simplistic. Dawkins conveniently ignores theologians/philosophers such as Tillich, Hartshorne, and the philosopher/mathematician Whitehead, or contemporary theologians such as Welker and Moltmann, just for instances! He does take shots at John Polkinghorne, but my sense is that this is from a distance. Polkinghorne is a highly regard physicist and trained theologian -- bringing together something that Dawkins can't.
There is a middle ground between the militant secularism of Dawkins and the obscurantism of the Young Earth Creationists. But it seems like these two camps are yelling the loudest!
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