Has Science eliminated God? -- Richard Dawkins and the Meaning of Life

ISBN:

0954-4194

URL:

http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.library.cornell.edu:2048/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=19211354&site=ehost-live

Keywords:

ATHEISM; ATHEISTS; GOD; RELIGION & science; Dawkins

Abstract:

Science has swept God from the public arena, and relegated him to the margins of our culture. He hangs on in its backwaters -- but only temporarily. It is only a matter of time before the relentless advance of science finally drives God from the human mind, and the world will be a better place. That, in a nutshell, is the popular perception of the take-home message of the writings of the Oxford scientific populariser and atheist apologist Richard Dawkins. In this article, I want to raise some fundamental concerns about this popular perception, and propose to do so by engaging directly with the writings of Dawkins himself.