Why do you find Dawkins The God Delusion an embarrasment?
I do find it to be an embarrassment, although not to me personally. It’s an embarrassment to people like Sam Harris or other atheists whose work is of much higher quality than Dawkins’ and who deserve to be publicly represented a little bit better than he represents them as “the world’s most outspoken atheist” (a phrase which describes Dawkins on the cover flap of The GOD Delusion). The book is very well-written, but unfortunately, the crux of the argument is not very well supported. Dawkins, in Chapter 4 (Why there almost certainly is no God) does a very good job giving reasons how certain seemingly created phenomena could have evolved through Darwinian Natural Selection rather than having been created. This part of his argument I found very interesting and well-supported. Afterwards, though, it all built up to a large argument based on the Anthropic Principle. Darwin’s use of the Anthropic Principle, unlike the Principle itself (see
