A book I don’t plan to read

Casey Luskin calls The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True:

Richard Dawkins’s Latest Attempt to Produce Young, Angry, New Atheist Clones.

[The following is cribbed from Luskin’s review, URL below.]

The stated purpose of The Magic of Reality is to help kids understand both the content and nature of scientific knowledge.

The real purpose is to get them to disbelieve in anything supernatural and to associate traditional religious beliefs with wacky superstitions that few have even heard of.

Oh yes, you’re also supposed to learn to mock those who disagree with you as “dishonest” and “lying.”

Dawkins freely associates the “tribal god YHWH” with the sun god Helios of Greek mythology with the nature deities of primitive tribes.

Apparently, he’s never heard of the simple fact that, just because there are a whole lot of wrong answers to a question does not mean there is not one right answer.

The last chapter is dedicated to teaching kids to disbelieve in miracles. In his signature fashion, Dawkins knocks down a few wacky straw man examples that real believers laugh at, then leaps to the conclusion that people who say they have evidence of a miracle must be lying and that people who listen to them are lazy or stupid.

He ends up sounding more like the superstitious religionists he so despises.

Source:
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2011/12/the_magic_of_re054111.html