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Katharina Peetz
Der Dawkins-Diskurs in Theologie,
Philosophie und
Naturwissenschaften
Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist
and best-selling author ("The God
Delusion") is the most popular religious
critic of our time. A well-known slogan of
his characterizes religion as the "root of all
evil" and as a justification for "belief
without evidence". According to Dawkins,
the notion of God as a creator is perfectly
unnecessary to explain the existence of
complex life forms as ourselves. He
advocates instead a gene-centered view of
Religion, Theologie und Naturwissenschaft /
Religion, Theology, and Natural Science
(RThN), Band 028
1. Edition 2013
335 pages
Evolution and Nature in general, where
natural selection is the key to the appearance
of complex life.
Moreover, Dawkins goes beyond his field of
activity by rejecting the God hypothesis
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altogether, even as an explanation for the
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origin of the Universe. Here is where he
receives sharp criticism from theologians,
arguing that his reasoning is shallow and
unprofessional. However, an analysis of the
Dawkins discourse illustrates that Dawkins'
theses deserve to be taken seriously. Among
other things, he challenges theologians to
argue if the hypothesis of a creator God can
be truth-apt in the cognitivistic sense.
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