Re: TEs vs materialism

On 5/24/05, Denyse O'Leary <oleary@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> Yes, McGrath's a great example. In fact, I wrote about him in one of my
> science and faith columns for ChristianWeek. If more Christians wanted to
> take on people like Dawkins and fewer wanted to fight with each other,
> we'd
> all be miles ahead. - cheers, Denyse
>
>
What's interesting is McGrath's book was reviewed by Michael Schermer
(editor of Skeptic magazine) for Nature. While disagreeing it was respectful
and noted how McGrath's critique of Dawkins mirrored Gould's. What this
shows how much more powerful a non-wedge critique of philosophical
naturalism versus Johnson's approach which is simply dismissed out of hand.
Johnson could do well by emulating McGrath both in how critiques are done
but more importantly the underlying irenic spirit. Note that McGrath not
only had a devestating critique of Dawkins but also the warfare model of
science and religion which ironically is shared between Dawkins and ID.
Received on Tue May 24 18:19:34 2005