impleri

First, look at this clip from a conference last year with Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion:

Now, does anything strike you as odd about Dawkins’s response? Let me point it out: he did not answer the question at all. In fact, Dawkins deflected the question back to the questioner. Why is it so difficult for Dawkins to answer a relatively simple question. What if Dawkins is wrong? Sure, he does have a point that the faith practices of parents are typically passed along to their children, but that doesn’t make the question invalid, especially since his project is an attack on all religious traditions, not just American Christianity. Dr. Dawkins, if he is seriously engaging in anything to do with religious faith, especially from a “scientific” standpoint should know that one should be trying to disprove one’s own theory. In this case, honestly evaluating the question “what if you’re wrong?” is a prerequisite to the dialog in question. Deflecting that question is more a sign of fundamentalism than it is of academic study.