“The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine,”
by Alister E. McGrath, Joanna Collicutt McGrath
Comment:
If you think fundamentalist religion is close-minded and intolerant, try a rabid atheist. Tell me there isn’t something personal, petty, and doctrinaire in the supposedly scientific atheism of a Dawkins….or Hitchens.
When confronted with starkly conflicting claims, it is imperative to maintain the canons of evidence, objectivity, and testability.
yes. I don’t know if these claims are so very conflicting (religion and science) as they are different TYPES of claims that really intersect only occasionally and when they do, I don’t have a problem with being on the side of science.
However, to say a painting is not beautiful because you can’t PROVE it is also fairly specious reasoning. The same may be true of some – not all – religious claims.
(In any case, I think you can certainly prove the complexity and harmonic proportions of many works of art -whether that establishes them as works of art is another thing).