Our dislike of Dawkins isn’t inspired only by the clever-if-you’re-a-14-year-old-who-likes-to-quote-Monty-Python-all-the-time concept of the “Flying Spaghetti Monster,” or by his questionable taste in she-males, but by all sorts of actually serious reasons.
So here are three essays written by people smarter than we are (not to mention smarter than Dawkins is) that pretty much grind his arguments into dust. These are essential reading if you hate Dawkins, or if you love Dawkins, or, especially, if you are Dawkins:
Terry Eagleton on the Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching Dawkins.
John Gray on The Atheist Delusion.
Michael Ruse on how Dawkins is Helping the Fundamentalists
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May 5, 2008 at 9:22 pm
There are two others that were interesting reads for me.
This one has a few very nice insights and helps to frame things nicely.
http://www.metanexus.net/magazine/tabid/68/id/10323/Default.aspx
This one comes from a Christian perspective, but the criticisms are that Dawkins really doesn’t go far enough in his atheism, he calls him a “soft-core” atheist, as opposed to Camus, Sartre, and Nietzche who saw the implications of their views required radical changes. It is a review of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitch, and it is fairly long, but worth reading at least once.
The title cracks me up:
Amateur atheists
Why the new atheism isn’t serious
http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=4497