Daily Archives: 19/12/2011

Reality really is magic!

Posted on 19/12/2011 by Jon Garvey

Richard Dawkins’ new children’s book, The Magic of Reductionism Reality has a really useful chapter on miracles. Dawkins bases much of his position on Hume’s argument against miracles:

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Contingency and the detectability of creation

Posted on 19/12/2011 by Jon Garvey

I remember a cartoon in Punch many years ago (sadly all the cartoons in Punch were many years ago now), in which a sudden new display of stars in the night sky spelled out, in evenly spaced Roman capitals, “GOD IS DEAD”. The caption underneath read, “Official Humanist Miracle Declared.”

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