What I should have said is that he thinks that there is a conflict between evolutionary biology and theism. Dennett thinks that evolutionary theory shows that it is irrational to believe that God exists; he thinks that the theory has this consequence because he thinks that the Design Argument was the only remotely plausible argument for God’s existence and evolutionary theory destroyed that argument.
Elliott SoberTags: science evolution design evolutionary-biology daniel-dennett design-argument design-argument-debunked
McGrath briefly notes Bertrand Russell's Why I am not a Christian, and J. J. C. Smart gets a single mention, as does Adolf Grünbaum, but the other major defenders of philosophical atheism of the last half-century do not even merit a nod. His index contains no listings for Antony Flew, Wallace Matson, Kai Nielsen, Richard Gale, William L. Rowe, Michael Martin, J. L. Mackie, Daniel Dennett, Evan Fales, Michael Tooley, Quentin Smith, Jordan Howard Sobel, Robin Le Poidevin, Theodore Drange, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Nicholas Everitt, J. L. Schellenberg, or Graham Oppy.
Keith ParsonsTags: bertrand-russell why-i-am-not-a-christian daniel-dennett adolf-grunbaum antony-flew atheist-philosophers evan-fales graham-oppy j-j-c-smart j-l-mackie j-l-schellenberg jordan-howard-sobel kai-nielsen michael-martin michael-tooley nicholas-everitt philosophical-atheism quentin-smith richard-gale robin-le-poidevin theodore-drange wallace-matson walter-sinnott-armstrong william-l-rowe
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