Monday, October 23, 2006

open forum with alister mcgrath, who makes dawkins look like child's play



You will be hard-pressed to find a more brilliant man than Alister McGrath. Last night was one of the most high-stimulating intellectual experiences in my life. He's one of the greatest scholars of our time.

The lecture is the big thing. You might be interested in the questions afterward, but he generally makes his point in the lecture prior to that. It's really, really intriguing. His focus is not necessarily on why Christianity is the answer, but rather a critique on Dawkins' The God Delusion, which is perhaps one of the most influential works of our time.

McGrath's book is called Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life, and I am already starting to read it. Let me know if you want to borrow mine, though I would encourage getting a copy for yourself (it's worthy of ownership, in my opinion).

Hopefully some of you will be able to make it to our next event. Enjoy!

Click here to download the lecture for your own listening enjoyment.

posted by John Mark at 5:08 PM

2 Comments:

Blogger Chris said...

Man, he didn't really make Dawkins look like anything. It was just a bunch of ad-hominem attacks. There wasn't a discussion of Dawkin's CONTENT but rather his TONE. I could sit here and explain how the Segway is safe and be completely smug and a jerk about it, but you need to argue with my arguments, not the fact that I was a jerk.

There was nothing about this talk that was intellectually stimulating for me.

7:54 AM  
Blogger John Mark said...

i'm not sure i understand your point, but i am pretty sure that he did argue the content as well as the tone, and the tone only in some places.

Perhaps it's not the type of argument you're accustomed to, or perhaps you were expecting something different... I believe mcgrath's points are not only legitimate, but true.

5:13 PM  

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