“DCP” wrote:
While in the air, I began to read a book by one Terry Higham, “a research-minded Catholic layman” who is based in the United Kingdom, titled The God Debate: Dawkins in Denial: Christian Guide Through an Atheist Wilderness. I wasn’t expecting much — I knew nothing about either the book or its author, although I had, it seems, loaded it onto my iPad at some indeterminate point in the past — but I’ve rather liked it thus far. Higham is obviously bright and quite well read. And, candidly, I enjoy critiques of Richard Dawkins, who doesn’t present quite the hilarious target that the late Christopher Hitchens did, but who nevertheless positively demands contradiction.
DCP quotes from the book: “In his brief engagement with miracles, Dawkins asserts as if self-evidently true that New Testament miracles such as the virgin birth, the raising of Lazarus, and the resurrection of Jesus could only be verified by scientific method. Despite the fact that, in oral or written form, human testimony is the kind of evidence that permeates and shapes our lives, dominates our law courts, and gives us access to the history of our race, Dawkins seems to dismiss it when it comes to reporting miracles, thereby seeking to set the evidential bar too high for advocates of such miracles to clear.”
DCP mocks Dawkins for having no understanding of philosophy of religion. Yet DCP cannot even wrap his mind around Hume’s very simple definition of a miracle. Were any of those events a violation of natural law or not, Daniel?
Mormon theology does not allow for violations of natural law. But DCP is either ignorant or willfully misleading, grabbing at any evangelical / Protestant / Catholic argument he can copy and paste, regardless of if it fits into LDS theology or not.
