Darwin's Angel is a book published in response to Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion. It was written by John Cornwell and subtitled An Angelic Riposte to The God Delusion.
Overview
Darwin's Angel is a book published in response to Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion. It was written by John Cornwell and subtitled An Angelic Riposte to The God Delusion.
Cornwell runs a "Public Understanding of Science" programme at Jesus College, Cambridge, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge. He has previously written reviews of religious and scientific books, including other works of Dawkins. He stated that he finds The God Delusion harmful in its failure to tackle the problem of extremism, and wrong on many important issues.
Summary
In this book, Cornwell adopts the persona of the guardian angel of Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel, who is now looking after Richard Dawkins. He pens a letter to Dawkins in 21 chapters.
A Summary of your Argument suggests that Dawkins regards all claims about God's existence as "the exclusive province of science and reason".
Your Sources suggests that the book ignores distinguished scholarship and uses inappropriate sources.
Imagination suggests that Dawkins takes things too literally.
Beauty suggests that Dawkins misunderstands the links between beauty, creativity and faith, and suggests he study George Steiner, William Blake, T. S. Eliot and C. S. Lewis.
What is Religion suggests that religion is not science and that Dawkins should study sociologists of religion such as Émile Durkheim.
Is God Supernatural? claims that Dawkins' image of God is not what most theists believe in.
Celestial Teapots suggests that the comparison with Russell's teapot is misplaced because Cornwell claims there are prima facie, albeit inconclusive, grounds for believing in God.
God's Simplicity claims that Dawkins imagines that God is an object but this is not how theologians think about God.
Theories of Everything claims that Stephen Hawking and others now believe a "Theory of Everything" is impossible due to Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
Dawkins versus Dostoyevsky suggests that Dawkins mistakenly attributes the nihilistic views of Ivan Karamazov to Dostoyevsky.
