{"id":11817,"date":"2025-01-14T20:29:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T01:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=11817"},"modified":"2025-10-13T15:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:30:26","slug":"the-wrong-kind-of-atheism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2025\/01\/the-wrong-kind-of-atheism\/","title":{"rendered":"The wrong kind of atheism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Still reading <em>Talking God: Philosophers on Belief<\/em> by Gary Gutting (New York: W. W. Norton, 2017). When Gutting interviews Michael Ruse, a philosopher of biology, he asks Ruse about Richard Dawkins&#8217;s arguments against the existence of God. Ruse has a good reply:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5125d4baabb81ffed091f8227d0befc7\">&#8221; Like every first-year undergraduate in philosophy, [Richard] Dawkins thinks he can put to rest the causal argument for God&#8217;s existence. If God caused the world, then what caused God? Of course, the great philosophers, Anselm and Aquinas particularly, are way ahead of him here&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There actually are interesting arguments to be made about the various proofs for and against God, but Dawkins remains stuck at the level of a certain kind of college freshman who is both ignorant and arrogant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still reading Talking God: Philosophers on Belief by Gary Gutting (New York: W. W. Norton, 2017). When Gutting interviews Michael Ruse, a philosopher of biology, he asks Ruse about Richard Dawkins&#8217;s arguments against the existence of God. Ruse has a good reply: &#8221; Like every first-year undergraduate in philosophy, [Richard] Dawkins thinks he can put &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2025\/01\/the-wrong-kind-of-atheism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The wrong kind of atheism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-11817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-richard-dawkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12480,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817\/revisions\/12480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}