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Essay on Richard Dawkins
Rethinking God 's Existence Richard Dawkins ' The God Delusion By indicate your name here indicate course /subject here indicate name of professor here indicate date of submission here Does God exist This was the core question addressed during the debate between Oxford colleagues and intellectual rivals Richard Dawkins and Dr . John Lennox with emphasis on Dawkin ' atheistic views expressed in his best-selling book The God Delusion . Dawkins , is an atheistic evolutionist while Lennox , a Christian apologist Dawkins was made to explain six main claims in his book
that were utilized to secure a ground to refute religion and to refer to belief in God 's existence as a delusion . In proving God 's non-existence , Dawkins releases his first premise by attacking the basis or lack of it in faith . Because religion is not based on hard evidence , faith has no eyes , and is therefore blind . As a means of interpreting the world , it fails in comparison to science which can explain the world elegantly . As a result , religion suppresses the human mind to explore and understand because essentially , religion regards not understanding ' as a virtue that should bring satisfaction
This will highlight two of Dawkins ' main arguments counter-arguments and a personal reflection
Dawkins ' Arguments
Dawkins explained his first claim as thus : Faith is blind , and science is evidence-based (Dawkins 92 . He accepts the natural inclination for human beings to be swept away by the beauty of the universe to an almost inexplicable reverence . Sometimes , Dawkins...
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