Tuesday, October 6, 2009

A witty review of Dawkin's "The God Delusion"

Marilynne Robinson is an award winning novelist, author of Gilead (which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005), Housekeeping and The Death of Adam and an esteemed essayist. For my writing seminar themed around "the faith between us," I recently read her essay in the American Scholar entitled "Onward, Christian Liberals." I found another essay in Harper's by her - a witty and intelligent critique of Richard Dawkin's (who btw has just come out with a new book on evolution) The God Delusion.

Also see this post by Haroon Moghul on a book he's reading called Why Us? How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves.

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  1. I just discovered that Marilynne Robinson's essay is entitled "Hysterical Scientism" is included in the 2007 The Best American Spiritual Writing from pg. 264-275 :)

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