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Originally Posted by tad10  I think this is fairly well put. Though I believe that Dawkins has deluded himself into thinking that he can actually prove that faith is non-rational. |
Dawkins doesn't have to prove faith is irrational because faith is irrational by it's very definition.
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Originally Posted by tad10 But of course it doesn't work that way. Using logic to prove the existence or non-existence of God is just not a winning proposition--it only works if you cheat -- that is if in your system of logic you introduce an axiom (the earlier the better) that God exists/does not exist. |
Yeah, except Dawkins doesn't try to prove that god doesn't exist he argues that belief in God is irrational, which it is.