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Comment author: Jaffa_Cakes 04 June 2009 12:07:55AM 0 points [-]

I have read The God Delusion but I don't really understand what you're saying. Can you explain?

Comment author: nazgulnarsil 04 June 2009 12:27:51AM 0 points [-]

Dawkins is a secular humanist, not a materialist. to wit: "Let me sum up Einsteinian religion in one more quotation from Einstein himself: "To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious." -The God Delusion Ch 1

his beliefs are sprinkled throughout the book, but it is fair to say that he espouses some form of dualism plus unitarian christian morality.

Comment author: Furcas 04 June 2009 01:12:57AM 5 points [-]

Um, Dawkins doesn't subscribe to what he calls "Einsteinian religion", and he is a materialist. I'm not sure why you seem to think that secular humanism and materialism are incompatible.

Comment author: Z_M_Davis 04 June 2009 12:32:54AM 0 points [-]

The tone is mystical, but I doubt Dawkins is really a dualist.

Comment author: MichaelGR 04 June 2009 07:32:44PM 0 points [-]

He isn't, and if memory serves me right, he has made that quite clear many times.