(August 4, 2019 at 7:45 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: You clearly can't understand that his dismissal of Dawkins is because "he is a biologist" and not what he writes, is ad hominem fallacy. Just like you are not able check all the lies he wrote about Hitchens book.
No one dismisses Dawkins' statements about religion due to the fact that he's a biologist. In fact Dr. Hart specifically says that Dawkins' books on biology are pretty good, and he should stick to what he does well.
If you look again at what you quoted, you'll see it doesn't say that his errors are due to his being a biologist. It says he's a zoologist (a true fact), a "tireless tractarian" (a judgment call), and a writer who "never fails to entrance his eager readers." It says he doesn't do philosophical reasoning well -- and why should he, since biologists don't need to do that? And that his rhetoric is reckless -- another judgment call, but one which his Tweets have reinforced.
Quote:The God Delusion, an energetic attack on all religious belief, has just been released by Richard Dawkins, the zoologist and tireless tractarian, who—despite his embarrassing incapacity for philosophical reasoning—never fails to entrance his eager readers with his rhetorical recklessness.
We dismiss Dawkins' statements about religion because they are overly simple and often in error. Not because of his former day job.
