Is believing in a religion delusional to a rational being?
I wouldn’t put too much stock in The God Delusion. Dawkins is a brilliant biologist, and his arguments for evolution are top notch. But he is no philosopher, and certainly no theologian. Even other atheist philosophers gave negative reviews of this book. Take the Ontological Argument, for example. Dawkins avoids all modern forms of the argument, and focuses instead on Anselm’s original form. Even though Anselm’s form of the argument is the weakest, Dawkins still insists that it is invalid simply because he doesn’t understand it. A little known fact is that over one third of philosophy professors are theists. Dawkins, misunderstanding the Ontological Argument, tried to use it in a debate against theistic philosophers to prove that pigs could fly. The philosophers refuted his argument using model logic. What Dawkins does not mention, is that model logic actually favors the existence of God. Even as brilliant a mathematician, logician and philosopher as Kurt Goedel used model logic to pro
