Critique of Dawkins
This Guardian article by Madeleine Bunting criticizes humanist champion, Richard Dawkins. It is unfortunate that Dawkins is a prominent face for Atheism. He makes it appear much more shrill than it really is, and Ms. Bunting does a good job of pointing out many of his failings.
(Via Victor Reppert’s site)
[...] Madeleine Bunting picks up on what I think is the most serious problem of Richard Dawkins’ brand of secular humanism. (via Mr. Grouchypants) It simpy “hasn’t generated a compelling popular narrative and ethic of what it is to be human and our place in the cosmos.” The misguided alliance of atheism and science further obfuscates the key issues. Science will never tell us why we are here and what our role is in relationship to the world that we perceive around us. [...]