Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Reading #45: Dawkins and Intelligent Design

Reading #45: Dawkins and Intelligent Design

What are the two times Dawkins is asked "how do you know" and what does he say?
How does he know there is no God?  What probability does he give for this and what is the basis for this probability?
How does he know people feel a release when they abandon God?  What does the scientific method require?  Is he acting as a scientist? What is the superstition that he wants to free people from and how is this different than his own appeal to informal evidence?
In what way does he appeal to intelligent design?  Does he solve or aggravate the problem of the odds of life from non-life by postulating an earlier and more advanced civilization that seeded life on earth?
What is the basis for his contempt of belief in God?  What does he think is meant by the term "God"? 

Dawkins says that life couldn't have come from nothing therefore it must have slowly formed through Darwinian means.  Are there other options?