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Richard Dawkins The God Delusion

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A Critique of Richard Dawkins’ “The God Delusion”

Dawkins’ makes the initial claim that there is inadequate evidence to prove God’s existence and he does this by presenting popular arguments for why God does exist. He then refutes them with his reasons for why he doesn’t. This topic is controversial in today’s world. Everyone seems to have an opinion about it whether they are Atheist, Christian, or never in between. They all believe that their ideals are correct, thus resulting in all others to be wrong. Atheist, Christians, and others alike would have better harmony if they all took the time to read chapter 3 of The God Delusion. Being exposed to an opinion vastly different than their own, but still acknowledging that the argument is someone’s opinion is crucial to decifiering the validity of it. Dawkins cites a multitude of arguments to prove to readers that God is a “misconceived” idea. Through the first few pages, he speaks of Thomas Aquinas’ Proofs and states they “don’t prove anything”. He, then, declares that all the arguments proposed are based upon the necessity of God. When, in his opinion, there is no …show more content…

Within his argument he discusses many faults of the Bible – the time it was written compared to when the event happened, the inaccuracy of the well-known Christmas story, and the lacking proof to the authors of each book. The argument is very invalid because the Bible is the only recollection of what happened to Jesus. Dawkins brings light to issues like the inconsistencies between the different gospels, but there are many biblical scholars who believe that the New Testament is one of the most reliable sources of antiquity. Although, Dawkins does propose a compelling argument, he could’ve proposed it in a way that seemed less like an unnecessary attack to the core of many peoples

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