Richard Dawkins himself, who is often dubbed ‘Darwin’s Rottweiler’, admits in his book, The God Delusion, that the kind of God he argues against the existence of is a personal creator-God. In recognizing this, Dawkins must recognize that his arguments, which heavily utilize Darwinian Evolution, do not apply to the existence or non-existence of other conceptions of divinity. However, I think it's safe to say that Dawkins’ name, and by extensions, Darwin’s, has become attached to a kind of contemporary cultural atheistic movement, calling all kinds of religious belief delusional and irrational.
The question that must be asked in light of this, and which I hope to explore in my blog posts, is whether Darwinism can really be used to rule out all kinds of religious thinking, and whether the probable nonexistence of a creator God implies the probably nonexistence of any God at all.
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