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Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins’ Case against God is unavailable, but you can change that!

Atheist Richard Dawkins thinks that • Religious belief is a virus that infects inferior genes • Religion is not only a form of infantile regression—it’s an especially pernicious kind of insanity • “Dyed-in-the-wool faith-heads are immune to argument” • Teaching religion to your children is a form of child abuse Dawkins’ inflammatory rhetoric and bad reasoning are misleading millions of...

enormous improbability, how could one even calculate accurately which was more probable? If on Dawkins’ reckoning God is at least as probable as the sudden waving of a marble statue, then according to his own reasoning God causing the miraculous waving of the Virgin Mary statue is at least as probable as random atomic jostling. We also might well ask at this point what it means to say that the existence of God is probable. Dawkins gives only this thin explanation: “reason alone could not propel one
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