An atheist reads "True Reason": Chapter 4 (part 1)
If there's any measure of success, influence, and cultural importance of Richard Dawkins' bestseller The God Delusion , it probably lies in the huge wave of backlash it has provoked from believers. Personally, A Brief History of Time did far more to persuade me to reject theism than any polemic, but Dawkins' book (which I read when I was already an atheist) has certainly cut deep into the religious community. That's evidenced in True Reason , where now two of the four chapters I've read are postured as responses to TGD . Previously, I read William Lane Craig's response and found it to be a quote-mining, dishonest smear. At this point, I'm quite frustrated with the book. I'll say it every time: I don't expect to be re-converted to Christianity, but I at least want to hear some ideas I had not considered – perhaps something that provokes me to critically re-examine some of my key beliefs. Instead, I've found that this book, like most apologist w