{"id":45,"date":"2008-02-20T20:17:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T02:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.consider.org\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2008-02-20T20:17:01","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T02:17:01","slug":"a-review-of-richard-dawkins%e2%80%99-the-god-delusion-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consider.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/a-review-of-richard-dawkins%e2%80%99-the-god-delusion-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"A Review of Richard Dawkins\u2019 The God Delusion – Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is an outline of my review of Richard Dawkins\u2019, \u201cThe God Delusion<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

Part I<\/a> – Chapter One
\nThree major problems with Dawkins\u2019 approach<\/p>\n

Part II<\/a> – Chapter One
\nDiscussion of the \u201ceducated elite,\u201d and how it is a negative term. How the errors of the educated elite are similar to the errors of atheism.<\/p>\n

Part III<\/a> – Chapter One
\nHow Dawkins statements show that hope and faith disguised as science are a major factor.<\/p>\n

Part IV<\/a> – Chapter One
\nDawkins\u2019 claim that there is a belief that religion should not be attacked.<\/p>\n

Part V<\/a> – Chapter Two
\nDawkins\u2019 view of God, and his idea that theology \u201chas not moved on in 18 centuries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Part VI<\/a> – Chapter Two
\nDawkins discussion of the Founding Father.<\/p>\n

Part VII<\/a>– Chapter Three
\nAquinas arguments for the existence of God.<\/p>\n

Part VIII<\/a> – Chapter Three
\nDawkins main rebuttal to Aquinas, the problem of the definition of Natural and Supernatural.<\/p>\n

Part IX<\/a> – Chapter Three
\nMore problems with Dawkins attempt to rebut Aquinas \u2013 the wrong type of sequence.<\/p>\n

Part X<\/a> – Chapter Four
\nPoint 1- 3 of Dawkins central argument of the book.<\/p>\n

Part XI<\/a> – Chapter Four
\nPoint 4- 6 of Dawkins central argument of the book.<\/p>\n

Part XII<\/a> – Chapter Five
\nThe origin of Religion – the freedom of speculation, in absence of evidence.<\/p>\n

Part XIII<\/a> – Chapter Six
\nThe origin of Morality – the role of chance and meaning.<\/p>\n

Part XIV<\/a> – Chapter Six
\nThe origin of Morality – the evolution as a tautology \u2013 evolution as a source for morality.<\/p>\n

Part XV<\/a> – Chapter Seven
\nMorality in the Bible \u2013 Dawkins errors of interpretation.<\/p>\n

Part XVI<\/a> – Chapter Seven
\nThe Moral Zeitgeist as a moral foundation<\/p>\n

Part XVII<\/a> – Chapter Seven
\nThe role of absolutism and Summation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following is an outline of my review of Richard Dawkins\u2019, \u201cThe God Delusion\u201d Part I – Chapter One Three major problems with Dawkins\u2019 approach Part II – Chapter One Discussion of the \u201ceducated elite,\u201d and how it is a negative term. How the errors of the educated elite are similar to the errors of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consider.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consider.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consider.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consider.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consider.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/consider.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consider.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consider.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consider.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}