RE: The Fifth of the Five Ways
January 2, 2023 at 8:21 am
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2023 at 8:25 am by Belacqua.)
I think that Hitchens and Dawkins and people like that really did terrible damage to human understanding.
They wrote with the idea that theology is so easy and so obviously wrong that you don't even really need to know what it says. You can just show that it's wrong with no effort or thought. Dawkins' description of the Fifth Way is so blatantly wrong that he should never be trusted with anything again. He lives in Oxford -- he could get on his bicycle and go to the home of two dozen people who could explain it to him. But that would take a teeny bit of effort, and he doesn't think that's necessary.
The OP is repeating the same error he made, knowingly or not.
They wrote with the idea that theology is so easy and so obviously wrong that you don't even really need to know what it says. You can just show that it's wrong with no effort or thought. Dawkins' description of the Fifth Way is so blatantly wrong that he should never be trusted with anything again. He lives in Oxford -- he could get on his bicycle and go to the home of two dozen people who could explain it to him. But that would take a teeny bit of effort, and he doesn't think that's necessary.
The OP is repeating the same error he made, knowingly or not.
