WHY THERE ALMOST CERTAINLY IS A GOD
Doubting Dawkins
By Keith Ward. Lion. 160 pages. £7.99
ISBN 978-0-7459-5330-4
This is a Christian philosopher-theologian’s riposte to Dawkins’s The God Delusion. Authored by a former Oxford Professor of Divinity, it is clever, courteous, and conclusive — well ‘almost’!
The author takes apart chapters two to four of Dawkins’s book, and demonstrates the weaknesses of Dawkins’s reasoning. He hits clean, but hard. He rightly exposes the hidden faith and assumptions of materialistic philosophy embedded in many of the modern atheist critiques of Christianity. He exposes fallacies galore. He argues strongly for the powerful reality of consciousness and ‘mind’, which is not simply reducible to brain chemistry. He shows how this points to an ‘ultimate mind’, as so many of the great thinkers down the millennia have concluded. He harnesses the power of the argument that ‘the final explanation’ of all things is a ‘personal one’.
