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Twelve Quotes from John Blanchard’s Dealing with Dawkins
- …there is also a need for a brief, simply written response that exposes Dawkins’ mindset and pinpoints some of the major flaws in his case against God.
- Although Dawkins is one of today’s most vocal atheists, I have no reason for attacking him as a person.
- Relying as it must on observation and experiment, there are things that cannot be explored or explained by the scientific method.
- To claim that science can explain everything, and in the process eliminate God, is not a statement of fact, but a leap of blind faith…
- The Bible’s teaching underlines the fundamental fact that man’s ultimate rights are not determined by custom or consensus, but lie in his unique creation ‘in the image of God’ (Genesis 1:27).
- In fact, he fails to land a single blow on the God revealed in the Bible, but merely attacks his own distorted caricature of God.
- Dawkins is angry and frustrated that so many persist in believing in God, but without a soundly based definition of God his entire argument falls flat on its face.
- To call the Bible ‘a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents’ is rather like judging a piece of classical music after hearing the orchestra tune up.
- The answer lies in a phrase which The God Delusion never addresses and of which I assume Dawkins has no understanding—‘the grace of God’.
- Genuine Christianity is grounded in history and endorsed by its evidence and effects. All of Dawkins’ attacks leave it unscathed.
- The meaning of the atoning death of Jesus is clarified by what happened three days later, an event about which Dawkins says virtually nothing.
- There is no limit to the grace of God offered in the Christian gospel.
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DEALING WITH DAWKINS, by John Blanchard