Category Archives: Existence of God

In the Beginning …

In his debate with his fellow Oxford professor, John Lennox, Richard Dawkins objected to the idea that the beginning of the universe provided evidence for the existence of God. Dawkins’ argument was that the Bible, in claiming that the universe had a beginning, had a 50% chance of getting it right – you might as well toss a coin.

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The New Theism

In his Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris attempts to persuade his fellow Americans that their belief in God is both irrational and dangerous. He sees his book as the product of failure, however, lamenting ‘the failure of the many brilliant attacks upon religion that preceded it, the failure of our schools to announce the death of God in a way that each generation can understand’.

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