Comments on: McGrath Attack on Dawkins http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/02/11/mcgrath-attack-on-dawkins/ Challenging the Zeitgeist Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:56:13 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Why Dont You Blog? : Dawkins Delusions - Deluded Reviewers? http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/02/11/mcgrath-attack-on-dawkins/comment-page-1/#comment-2828 Why Dont You Blog? : Dawkins Delusions - Deluded Reviewers? Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:20:29 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/02/11/mcgrath-attack-on-dawkins/#comment-2828 [...] Dawkins Delusion” by Alister McGrath. Now we have looked at McGrath in the past (here and here, and this has also been looked at on Nullfidian’s blog) so there is no pressing need to [...] [...] Dawkins Delusion” by Alister McGrath. Now we have looked at McGrath in the past (here and here, and this has also been looked at on Nullfidian’s blog) so there is no pressing need to [...]

]]> By: nullifidian http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/02/11/mcgrath-attack-on-dawkins/comment-page-1/#comment-1763 nullifidian Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:17:17 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/02/11/mcgrath-attack-on-dawkins/#comment-1763 Oops! Mea culpa! ;-) Oops! Mea culpa! ;-)

]]> By: TW http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/02/11/mcgrath-attack-on-dawkins/comment-page-1/#comment-1762 TW Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:57:31 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/02/11/mcgrath-attack-on-dawkins/#comment-1762 Thanks for the comment - the main reason I had to look at the responses to the daily <strike>nonsense</strike> mail page was that you had sufficiently demolished McGrath's nonsense there wasn't anything else for me to pick on! Thanks for the comment – the main reason I had to look at the responses to the daily nonsense mail page was that you had sufficiently demolished McGrath’s nonsense there wasn’t anything else for me to pick on!

]]> By: nullifidian http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/02/11/mcgrath-attack-on-dawkins/comment-page-1/#comment-1761 nullifidian Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:33:58 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/02/11/mcgrath-attack-on-dawkins/#comment-1761 Thanks for the linkage. I was initially inclined to, as you did, deconstruct the comments on the article, but put most of these down to general basic misunderstandings. I will point out something I noticed with what Storey posted. His comment points out that we have no understanding of the "why" of the universe. What he fails to grasp, however, is that this isn't necessarily a coherent question. There may not <em>be</em> a "why" question to answer: he has presupposed that the question is valid but has provided no evidence to support such a premise. He's then makes the leap that if we don't attempt to answer this question, we're just deluded. I would point out that, attempting to answer a question that may or may not be answerable and then having to answer further presupposed questions for which there is no evidence either is a greater scource of delusion. Thanks for the linkage. I was initially inclined to, as you did, deconstruct the comments on the article, but put most of these down to general basic misunderstandings.

I will point out something I noticed with what Storey posted. His comment points out that we have no understanding of the “why” of the universe. What he fails to grasp, however, is that this isn’t necessarily a coherent question. There may not be a “why” question to answer: he has presupposed that the question is valid but has provided no evidence to support such a premise.

He’s then makes the leap that if we don’t attempt to answer this question, we’re just deluded. I would point out that, attempting to answer a question that may or may not be answerable and then having to answer further presupposed questions for which there is no evidence either is a greater scource of delusion.

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