I wouldn't be so unkind were unkindness not a Dawkins specialty. I've read The God Delusion, and it is really bad. It's not that I think God, or any of his or her representatives, is the light and the way. In fact, like Dawkins, I'm on the Celebrity Atheist List. It's just that I'm soft on religion.
All of the four anti-religious fundamentalists spend much of their ink on the evil done in the name of religion. I concede them every inch of this territory. The thing is, two of them are scientists (Dawkins and Harris) and one a distinguished philosopher (Dennett). We can write Hitchens off as an entertaining pundit who is not supposed to be objective. But the other three have more responsibility.
Let's say you want to have an objective answer to a scientific-in this case social science-question: say, Does religion do more harm than good? Well, you would presumably tote up all the harm it does, and then tote up all the good it does, and try to find a method of weighing them against each other.
Now, these authors are great on the evil side-you can find out that very bad things get done in God's name. So in case you didn't take history in high school and never watch the news, you will find this part of their work very informative. But what you won't find is even the slightest attempt to find out anything good that religion might do.
That's not science or even philosophy-it's just four arrogant men's opinions. The three of them who sit on the very high horses of science and philosophy also spend a lot of time and paper proving that religion is not scientific--as if any person of faith ever thought it was.
In fact, they have completely missed what faith is: believing in something for which there is no scientific evidence. Their ignorance of religion-I'm talking about the psychology and social science of religion, not just the theology-is breathtaking. But that hasn't slowed them down one little bit.
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Quiero aclarar de antemano que desconozco si estas criticas son objetivas o no. Lo que he leido del señor Dawkins trata de la evolución. Desconozco lo que ha escrito sobre Dios o la religión. Pero tal vez esto pueda ser de algún interés. Al menos creo que le puede interesar a don Roberto.






