12.26.06
Dawkins, Myers, Orr
Dawkins, Myers, and Orr’s GD review.
I fear that Darwinists are living in a cocoon, where their worst enemy is their own ’success’. Orr’s essay, from a Darwinist, attempts to point out the severe limits of Dawkins thinking on religion. A lot of people wouldn’t bother, the more so since they can see that such naivete and self-induced ignorance will sink itself in the end.
Over at his official website, Richard Dawkins praises his #1 Fan, PZ Myers.
Congratulations to P Z Myers on this brilliant piece of satire. It applies not just to Allen Orr’s review in NYRB, but to all those many reviews of TGD that complain of my lack of reading in theology. My own stock reply (”How many learned books of fairyology and hobgoblinology have you read?”) is far less witty.
Richard