FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W51005145> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W51005145 startingPage "607" @default.
• W51005145 abstract "Most of the 374 pages of The God Delusion (1) are mercifully not about God but about religion, specifically the Three Abrahamic Religions--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. More specifically, the book is about Christianity and, most specifically, about American Christian fundamentalism. I found myself in agreement with most of what Richard Dawkins--not without humor and with passion--found wrong with the preposterous sayings and doings of believers and preachers of sorts. Organized religions, one could conclude, are more concerned with power, domination and money than with God. I also agree with Dawkins that one should not identify children by the religious affiliation of their parents, and I certainly support his opinion that [a] good case can indeed be made for the educational benefits of teaching comparative religion. (2) However, I disagree with Dawkins when he equates the follies of religious believers with religion as such, identifies the utterances of some preachers with the notion of God, reduces reality to matter, and postulates the omniscience of science. Dawkins must certainly be aware of the frequent abuse of science, the frauds committed by scientists, and the exaggerated claims made by some; he probably would not identify these with science as such. Dawkins's main argument for rejecting a Creator is that evolution, as he understands it, works from the most simple and primitive to the more complex and advanced, whereas the assumption of a Creator God would place the most complex being at the beginning. Evolution is a very ambiguous term that has been interpreted by many theorists in many different ways. If Dawkins sees in the theory of evolution the basis for scientific atheism, Ernst Mayr, arguably the most respected contemporary theorist of biology, thinks that Virtually biologists are religious, in the deeper sense of this word, even though it may be a religion without revelation, as it was called by Julian Huxley. (3) In order to serve as the foundation of a coherent theory of nature, the theory of evolution, as Dawkins presents it, requires the introduction of a metaphysical notion such as chance and the assumption of a transcendent omniscient and omnipotent selector performing at every instant simultaneously billions of instances of natural selection. Dawkins expands the range of nonscientific elements by introducing luck as a major factor. Nobody has ever seen or touched chance or luck, and the fact that there exists a probability calculus that is, among other things, helpful in the insurance business does not make chance any more substantial. The probability calculus makes the emergence of the universe and the development of any organisms appear to be extremely improbable. We obviously need something in addition to chance and luck to end up with a real world. Dawkins has made it abundantly clear through many earlier publications that he is not only a confirmed atheist but also an out-and-out materialist for whom spirit/soul does not exist. Ali those who assume the existence of a Creator agree that she/he/it is Spirit. There are many theories that try to explain the relationship between Creator and creation, from a deistic distancing to a pantheistic amalgamation. Thus, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan held that the evolving universe is identical with its creator: [T]he God who is responsible for this world, who is the consciousness of the universe, is working through brute matter from which He has to liberate Himself and liberate us. He Himself is suffering in each and of us. This suffering will be at an end when the spirit which is imprisoned in transitory matter is released, when the potential world-spirit or spirit of the whole becomes the actual consciousness of each part, when God becomes ... all in all, when the solitary limited God becomes the pantheistic God. (4) Dawkins, apparently approvingly, quotes Carl Sagan: [I]f by 'God' one means the set of physicals laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. …" @default.
• W51005145 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W51005145 creator A5024458761 @default.
• W51005145 date "2008-09-22" @default.
• W51005145 modified "2023-09-23" @default.
• W51005145 title "Reflections Prompted by Richard Dawkins's: The God Delusion" @default.
• W51005145 hasPublicationYear "2008" @default.
• W51005145 type Work @default.
• W51005145 sameAs 51005145 @default.
• W51005145 citedByCount "0" @default.
• W51005145 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W51005145 hasAuthorship W51005145A5024458761 @default.
• W51005145 hasConcept C111472728 @default.
• W51005145 hasConcept C121332964 @default.
• W51005145 hasConcept C138885662 @default.
• W51005145 hasConcept C150152722 @default.
• W51005145 hasConcept C163258240 @default.
• W51005145 hasConcept C17744445 @default.
• W51005145 hasConcept C185592680 @default.
• W51005145 hasConcept C199539241 @default.
• W51005145 hasConcept C200610012 @default.
• W51005145 hasConcept C24667770 @default.
• W51005145 hasConcept C27206212 @default.
• W51005145 hasConcept C2776971825 @default.
• W51005145 hasConcept C2779744715 @default.
• W51005145 hasConcept C2779783995 @default.
• W51005145 hasConcept C2780789983 @default.
• W51005145 hasConcept C4445939 @default.
• W51005145 hasConcept C551968917 @default.
• W51005145 hasConcept C55493867 @default.
• W51005145 hasConcept C62520636 @default.
• W51005145 hasConcept C94625758 @default.
• W51005145 hasConcept C98184364 @default.
• W51005145 hasConceptScore W51005145C111472728 @default.
• W51005145 hasConceptScore W51005145C121332964 @default.
• W51005145 hasConceptScore W51005145C138885662 @default.
• W51005145 hasConceptScore W51005145C150152722 @default.
• W51005145 hasConceptScore W51005145C163258240 @default.
• W51005145 hasConceptScore W51005145C17744445 @default.
• W51005145 hasConceptScore W51005145C185592680 @default.
• W51005145 hasConceptScore W51005145C199539241 @default.
• W51005145 hasConceptScore W51005145C200610012 @default.
• W51005145 hasConceptScore W51005145C24667770 @default.
• W51005145 hasConceptScore W51005145C27206212 @default.
• W51005145 hasConceptScore W51005145C2776971825 @default.
• W51005145 hasConceptScore W51005145C2779744715 @default.
• W51005145 hasConceptScore W51005145C2779783995 @default.
• W51005145 hasConceptScore W51005145C2780789983 @default.
• W51005145 hasConceptScore W51005145C4445939 @default.
• W51005145 hasConceptScore W51005145C551968917 @default.
• W51005145 hasConceptScore W51005145C55493867 @default.
• W51005145 hasConceptScore W51005145C62520636 @default.
• W51005145 hasConceptScore W51005145C94625758 @default.
• W51005145 hasConceptScore W51005145C98184364 @default.
• W51005145 hasIssue "4" @default.
• W51005145 hasLocation W510051451 @default.
• W51005145 hasOpenAccess W51005145 @default.
• W51005145 hasPrimaryLocation W510051451 @default.
• W51005145 hasRelatedWork W1198234085 @default.
• W51005145 hasRelatedWork W1978200468 @default.
• W51005145 hasRelatedWork W1984156893 @default.
• W51005145 hasRelatedWork W2084086558 @default.
• W51005145 hasRelatedWork W2122524556 @default.
• W51005145 hasRelatedWork W2148709392 @default.
• W51005145 hasRelatedWork W2150210133 @default.
• W51005145 hasRelatedWork W2175055864 @default.
• W51005145 hasRelatedWork W2229489256 @default.
• W51005145 hasRelatedWork W2319101879 @default.
• W51005145 hasRelatedWork W2487517680 @default.
• W51005145 hasRelatedWork W2492619213 @default.
• W51005145 hasRelatedWork W2805337157 @default.
• W51005145 hasRelatedWork W2883342296 @default.
• W51005145 hasRelatedWork W2953029103 @default.
• W51005145 hasRelatedWork W3119514418 @default.
• W51005145 hasRelatedWork W322604406 @default.
• W51005145 hasRelatedWork W418931202 @default.
• W51005145 hasRelatedWork W583796859 @default.
• W51005145 hasRelatedWork W128763169 @default.
• W51005145 hasVolume "43" @default.
• W51005145 isParatext "false" @default.
• W51005145 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W51005145 magId "51005145" @default.
• W51005145 workType "article" @default.