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Ethics as practical tradition

Are there any instances outside of religion where we are justified in using something other than empirical data and logical deductions to acquire knowledge about the world? One of the most incisive critiques of my post …
Final evaluation of The God Delusion

At heart, I disagree with Richard Dawkins less about God's existence than about what counts as evidence for or against it. Dawkins is a strict positivist: he insists that only hard physical evidence and its logical conse…
Finished The God Delusion on the bus today

(Previous posts, in reverse order: Dawkins on the Bible Assessment of Dawkins' proof Chapters 1-3, reviewed and kvetched about Dawkins' Logical Offenses) Parting shots: 1. Damn good book. Dawkins is a prose artist. I f…
Where do you think the Bible came from?

I wanted to respond to a few things, and clear a few things up, about my critique of Dawkins' reading of the Bible. 1. Dawkins has a habit of pointing out fissures in the biblical narrative (repeated stories like the en…
Needless to say, Dawkins' chapter on the Bible pissed me off

Tonight is a good night to drink whisky, listen to Radiohead, and blog about whether or not God exists. Tomorrow at this time I'll be beer-drunk at a Radiohead concert, where I intend to see God whether or not He exists…
Goings on about town, week of July 18

1. I had the honor of overhearing a drug deal go down at the public library. It was just pot, and this is Madison, so they didn't even have to keep their voices down, though they did make a token effort to sound underhan…
Why there is almost certainly no way of knowing whether there is a God or not

The last time I wrote about Richard Dawkins, I said I was excited about reading Chapter Four of his book, "Why There Almost Certainly is No God," because (1) he finally lays out his central argument and (2) it plays to h…
The God Delusion, continued

Through three chapters: Here is what does not frustrate me about Dawkins' book: Its acerbic tone. Reading Dawkins' prose is like watching Mick Jagger strut on stage. Dawkins mocks his opponents when their beliefs and ar…
Initial impressions of The God Delusion

The preface to Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion ends with this paragraph: "If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down. What presumptuous optimism! Of course, dy…