RE: Exposing the Intellectual Bankruptcy of Atheists Criticizing Religion
November 1, 2015 at 3:43 pm
Having read the article, I find it unconvincing.
There are times that Dawkins in particular makes clumsy arguments. But I was an atheist long before any of these so-called New Atheists came out, and their writings had very little effect on my lack of faith.
I also had to laugh at the idea of using Aquinas's Five Ways to support the idea of a Roman Catholic god. Firstly, the refutations are almost as old as the arguments themselves -- if not older; and secondly, none of those ways but the fourth can conceivably support a Christian god, and the fourth is torpedoed by the assumption that if one can conceive of perfection, then it must exist.
It's polemic, not reasoned writing, as intellectually bankrupt as it asserts on the part of its targets.
There are times that Dawkins in particular makes clumsy arguments. But I was an atheist long before any of these so-called New Atheists came out, and their writings had very little effect on my lack of faith.
I also had to laugh at the idea of using Aquinas's Five Ways to support the idea of a Roman Catholic god. Firstly, the refutations are almost as old as the arguments themselves -- if not older; and secondly, none of those ways but the fourth can conceivably support a Christian god, and the fourth is torpedoed by the assumption that if one can conceive of perfection, then it must exist.
It's polemic, not reasoned writing, as intellectually bankrupt as it asserts on the part of its targets.
