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The Magic of Christmas: A response to Dawkins’ “The Magic of Reality” (in the Washington Post)

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Richard Dawkins’ new book “The Magic of Reality” has been high in the bestseller lists for weeks. While Dawkins insists there is a divide between the life of the mind and the life of the soul ("you can’t be an intellectual and a religious believer"), a number of Christian intellectuals are starting to tackle the New Atheists. Here is Professor Lennox’s Christmas take on Dawkins’ latest offering (a “Guest Voice” in the Washington Post): 

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Comments

What do you think?

Dr Lennox places God squarely as the essential source from which all communication and science must occupy,while scientism posits an erratic highly questionable evolving of life, not to mention complex consciousness.
Despite all the bad in life, we see some good. and this is far more encouraging than the dubious emptiness of souless evolution.

Message left by Paul Murchison on 3:24am, 28/02/2012 GMT

Dr Lennox is clearly a force to be reckoned with. It is good to see a scientist who hasn’t been sucked into the new atheist trap standing up for what he believes in. Hopefully he will encourage other scientists to stand up too.

Thank you sir…

Message left by humbled on 12:25am, 28/02/2012 GMT

I must confess I’m not sure where the Washington Post fits into the spectrum of politics in American media, but judging from the harsh and frankly ridiculous comments posted underneath Dr Lennox’s article I can only assume it’s the American version of ‘Comment is Free’ in the Guardian!

I think Dr L’s style in this article is like usual, a lightweight style with a heavyweight punch and I value his contribution muchly. As for the debate with Dawkins, well even Dawkin’s mum agrees her boy took a beating, so not sure which debate the commentators were watching, but it wasn’t the one I saw.

Nice article.. thank you.

James Pennington

Message left by James Pennington on 1:18am, 27/01/2012 GMT