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Dawkins and the bible.(Letter to the editor)

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| June 01, 2007 | Moss, P.J.; Franklin, James | COPYRIGHT 2007 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

SIR. David Hodgson's conclusion (May 2007), in the form of a mischievously mixed metaphor, that Richard Dawkins should be seen to be "on the side of the angels in the quest for a more peaceful world", came as a relief. I must confess that reading his article there were moments when I feared he was about to take the step of accepting, or at least tolerating the possibility of, the existence of an anthropomorphised benevolent omnipotent God, a step he eventually makes clear he "cannot take". Nevertheless, the author of The Mind Matters apparently counts himself as a theist.

However, I wish to suggest that as to the three "major errors", he discerns in Dawkins' ...

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