Okay, here's the deal. Each Sunday at 12:00 am, I will start a thread for discussing part of the book we're reading. For the duration of that week, we will exchange thoughts, opinions, reflections, etc. (limited to whatever selection is specified in the post). Discussions will take place via comments until Saturday at 11:59 pm, when consideration of that particular selection will end, and a new thread will begin. Please keep the following in mind: 1) You must have read the book (at least up to and including the part we're discussing) to participate. 2) The whole point is to foster a healthy exchange of perspectives. Refrain from personal attacks, or taking non-personal attacks personally. 3) Remember to identify yourself in each comment you post. If you do not have a blogger or gmail login (or if said login isn't going to tell everybody who you are), simply sign your name at the end of the comment. Anonymous submissions will be deleted. 4) Profanity is discouraged.

Friday, March 30, 2007

The God Delusion, Week 3

The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
Chapter 3: Arguments For God's Existence

From the preface: "Perhaps you have been taught that philosophers and theologians have put forward good reasons to believe in God. If you think that, you might enjoy Chapter 3 on 'Arguments for God's existence' - the arguments turn out to be spectacularly weak."

Sunday, March 18, 2007

The God Delusion, Week 2

The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
Chapter 2: The God Hypothesis

From the preface: "Perhaps you feel that agnosticism is a reasonable position, but that atheism is just as dogmatic as religious belief? If so, I hope Chapter 2 will change your mind, by persuading you that 'the God Hypothesis' is a scientific hypothesis about the universe, which should be analysed as sceptically as any other."

Sunday, March 11, 2007

The God Delusion, Week 1

The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
Chapter 1: A Deeply Religious Non-Believer

From the preface: "Chapters 1 and 10 top and tail the book by explaining, in their different ways, how a proper understanding of the magnificence of the real world, while never becoming a religion, can fill the inspirational role that religion has historically--and inadequately--usurped."