Wan Aida Deliana Richard Dawkins Analysis

I, Wan Aida Deliana will be focusing on Richard Dawkins atheistic view as I believe that his statements are the things that I question in life. The strength of Richard Dawkins is that he is able to relate to his audience with science as his religion. Dawkins explained his several point of views by applying scientific concepts and the concept of Darwinism. He grew up in an Anglicanism Christian upbringing. He mentions that in his biographical introduction, he realized that there are other religions as well in the world and that it was an accident that he was born in the Christian faith (The God Delusion Debate). What I admire the most is that he has the courage to go forward and widen his understanding about the questions that he has in life and about his religion. Hence, leading him into atheism.
One of his strong points was, “One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us a virtue to be satisfied with not …show more content…
He is eternal. This is the fundamental distinction between God and the universe. It came to exist, He did not.” To debate against Dawkins point about the creation furthermore, he went on saying that as a materialist Dawkins is, matter and energy of the laws of nature were always there thus the existence of something eternal. Besides the existence of God, Lennox also gave an example to prove that simplicity is not the only standard for truth. He started off by saying that when a chinese expert and an archeologist goes into a cave together and see two scratches on the wall, the chinese expert would claim that the two scratches on the wall proves there is human intelligence because it looked like a chinese character. However, that can not be deemed as an explanation because the explanation itself is more complex than it