Monday, March 12, 2007

The Point: Dawkins Hit by Friendly Fire

re: Regis Nicoll writes: "When you're being peppered with “incoming” from your own camp, it's a clue that sumpin's gotta give. Despite its long run on the New York Times bestseller list, The God Delusion and its author, provocateur extraordinaire Richard Dawkins, are getting pelted by some unlikely critics. /One book reviewer began, “Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.” That was from Marxist scholar Terry Eagleton. /Then there’s evolutionary biologist H. Allen Orr..."...

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