Brian Dawkins

A Lone Wolf vs the Pack It is common to see wolves work in pack in order to hunt down their prey, however the lone wolf who often works alone has become an icon to describe the tension between individuals that work together in organizations against those who work alone. In Wendell Berry’s essay, “God, Science and Imagination,” he discusses the differences between two dominant arguing groups, the fundamentalists of science and the fundamentalists of religion. Berry describes the intentions of each

Dr. Richard Dawkins: Wolf with False Teeth Dr. Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist and an Oxford don, has written articles and popular books critical of Christianity, such as The Blind Watchmaker and The Devil’s Chaplain. In fact, he is the host of a BBC documentary series entitled, The God Delusion (changed from the original series title, The Root of All Evil), in which he argues, as he does in his identically titled book, that humankind would be much better off without a belief in God.

reveals himself through creation, through God’s divine intervention and through our own minds though scientists often cannot or will not see the truth. Pearcey (2005) notes, “Design is such a defining feature of living things that biologist Richard Dawkins begins one of his books with this startling sentence: ‘Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.’ Being an evolutionist, he then spends the rest of the book seeking to demonstrate that

The Persuasive Account of Race Through a Social Constructionist Lens During the late twenty-first century the academic focus recognised as the ‘critical philosophy of race’ was developed with the purpose of analysing the metaphysics of race. Scholars began to conceptualise ‘race’ with frameworks other than biological determinism due to scientific findings that proposed that race, as conceptualised as a biological fact, does not exist. To ground the social reality of race, theories of social constructionism

Cleanthes’ argument from design in ‘Dialogues concerning Natural Religion’ is trying to prove that there is a deity which exists and which is similar to humans in our mind and intelligence. This argument from design can be dated back to Plato and later, Aquinas in the ‘Summa Theologica’. Cleanthes However, Cleanthes’ argument does not fully prove that the deity is a theological Christian God as it does not prove his omniscience and his omnipotent nature shown in biblical texts. The infinite nature

To compare the Christian worldview to the secular worldview of account, one must understand the definition of what a worldview is and what a Christian worldview looks like as well as what a secular worldview looks. According to Valk (2012), "Worldviews are those larger pictures that inform and in turn form our perceptions of reality. They are visions of life as well as ways of life, are individual and personal, yet bind adherents together communally" (p. 1). It is not uncommon for individuals to

Darwinism and its opposition For more than 150 years, a revolutionary idea has been spreading all over the world. It helped us discover our origins and revealed our place in nature. It led to the unification of once independent fields of scientific inquiry. And it is being used today to tackle some of the most pressing problems facing modern civilization. But its implications go far beyond science. It has shaped our culture, politics, philosophy and religion, and it has been used to justify war and

The debate surrounding God’s role in nature is one of controversy and intertwining beliefs. The most tremendous question of them all — Creationism versus evolutionism — shapes the precedent for one’s view of religion in nature. Nature, a showcase of miraculous feats and horrific scenes, is often unquestioned as the workings of a higher power. Yet, when naturally occurring heinous actions are discovered, the question arises: can an omnipotent and benevolent God really create such cruelty? Stephen

Humans have mastered the skill of copying others. Mostly everyone follows what they were shown; they copy whatever they were taught. This is the idea of memes being passed down. Susan Blackmore describes how memes have taken over our lives. She talks in her article, “Strange Creatures,” what memes are and how the theory of “selfish meme theory” is being shown throughout living creatures. Meme is the idea of imitating someone else's thoughts. “Selfish” is implied as thoughts being passed down and

Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and a historian of science (The Contributions of Evolution). Stephen Jay Gould was also a science writer (The Editors). Gould was born in Bayside, New York on September 10, 1941 (The Editors). He died on May 20, 2002 in New York City. Gould’s own personal research focused on the evolution and speciation of West Indian land snails (The Editors). Gould had a large educational background. He graduated from Antioch College in