Chapter Five: Musings Of A Lapsed Atheist
CHAPTER FIVE: MUSINGS OF A LAPSED ATHEIST
1. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006); Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004); Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (New York: Viking, 2006); Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (New York: Twelve, 2007).
2. Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (New York: Scribner’s, 1997), 13.
3. Ian McEwan, “A Parallel Tradition,” The Guardian, 1 April 2006, http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/apr/01/scienceandnature.richarddawkins.
4. Tom Wolfe, “The Great Relearning,” in Hooking Up (London: Jonathan Cape, 2000), 140–45.
5. Richard Dawkins, A Devil’s Chaplain: Selected Writings (London: Weiden-field & Nicolson, 2003), 16.
6. For a good study, see Michael Stenmark, Scientism: Science, Ethics and Religion (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001).
7. See, e.g., Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (New York: Harper & Row, 1964).
8. For its systematic debunking, see Ronald L. Numbers, ed., Galileo Goes to Jail: And Other Myths about Science and Religion (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009).
9. Dawkins, God Delusion, 66–69.
10. Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth (London: Transworld, 2009).
11. Dawkins, God Delusion, 188.
12. Ibid., 166.
13. On this further, see Gudmundur Ingi Markusson, “Review of The God Delusion,” Journal of Cognition and Culture 7 (2007): 369–73.
14. On this, see Donald E. Brown, Human Universals (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991), 48.
15. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), 21. I am indebted to Denis Noble for making this point: see esp. Denis Noble, The Music of Life: Biology beyond the Genome (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
16. Samir Okasha, Evolution and the Levels of Selection (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 143–72.
17. Noble, Music of Life, 13.