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Why God Won’t Go Away: Engaging with the New Atheism is unavailable, but you can change that!

In a decade embroiled in fanaticism and fear, a renewed interest in the age-old debate over the question of God has reignited, giving rise to a new group of media-savvy contenders dubbed the “New Atheists.” As expressed in the works of best-selling authors like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the New Atheists have found a foothold in today’s cynical society, and have ramped up their...

It has always seemed to me that there’s a problem here.23 If Darwinian evolution is indeed a random process, how can we speak about ‘accidental’ or ‘unintended’ outcomes? Dawkins argues at several points in his books that the natural world may have the appearance of design, but this appearance of design or intentionality arises from random developments.24 However, if Dawkins is right, surely all outcomes of the evolutionary process are ‘unintended’. Or does he really think that evolution is guided
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