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horatio horatio is offline Fleet Admiral Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 9,244  Originally Posted by Enterprise Captain View Post
You're going in circles. Dawkins isn't claiming people who
believe in God are delusional he is stating for the sake of
debate that a belief in God is a delusion and here is why. Like
I said before in a debate you need to take a stance. If Dawkins
says a belief in God maybe a delusion, I can say maybe it isn't
and that's the end of the debate. If you read past the preface
of the book and get in to the "here is why" you may find that
Dawkins makes some reasonable arguments. Dawkins reasoning comes
from his knowledge of science as well as other things. Dawkins
doesn't end the book with the conclusion that he is 100% percent
certain a belief in God is a delusion therefore God is a
delusion as you and janeway72 assume he does, it's up to the
reader to come to their own conclusion. I wouldn't put Dawkins
on one end of a spectrum that