RE: The God Delusion
November 10, 2013 at 11:44 am
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2013 at 12:01 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(November 9, 2013 at 10:53 pm)Optimistic Mysanthrope Wrote: I found it almost inconceivable that this apparent 'champion of atheism' failed to raise a single point that I hadn't considered before my somewhat intellectually inferior self had left school.
That is because your intellectually inferior self have inexplicably confused the role of "champion" with the role of "theoretician".
Theoretician eats because he can come up with new theories and arguments or at least cloth old ones in new skins.
Champion eats because he can advocate using whatever argument that is most persuasive to the as yet unpersuaded.
If basic argument for atheism is already sound, valid and persuasive, and yet Dawkins had continued to occupy himself with being a sort of Plantiga for atheism, would your opinion of him improve or worsen?
