Dawkins an embarrassment
Michael Ruse is the man quoted in our current issue of The Briefing as saying “The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist”. (The God Delusion is the book by Richard Dawkins that is in the vanguard of a number of recent and strident attacks by prominent atheists on religions of all sorts.)
Who is Michael Ruse? He is professor of philosophy at Florida State University, and is the sort of man that you would have expected to battle right alongside a Dawkins or perhaps a Christopher Hitchens. He thinks Creationism is a ridiculous notion, and he's been battling against its representatives for the last 30 years, so to find him arguing on a different tack is slightly surprising.
Yet in this article he is bold enough to suggest that many evolutionsts are just as religiously ridiculous in their zeal as the most swivel-eyed creationist could ever be. It's a fascinating interview: in it, he confesses that evolutionist W D Hamilton's view that we should commit infanticide to remove disabilities from the gene pool “makes [his] hair stand on end”.
Most creationists and evolutionists tend to distract themselves away from considering the man Jesus Christ, the only son of God, by turning to debate minutiae of sub-amoebic proportions. Small things are not unimportant, but when they stop us thinking about the gospel, they start to matter out of proportion to their size.