[MD] Empiricism for dummies

[Ian Glendinning]

Mel,
Thanks for your affirmations, but I caution going this far ...
"God Delusion was a successful book in that it sold lots. (Ironically,
booksellers thank God for that.) But as anything other than a best
seller the book fails."

I think to be fair, it is a very successful book - too successful - at
highlighting and publicizing the hypocrisies and dangers in religious
memes - I think Dawkins really is to be congratulated for starting the
recent high-profile faith-based-belief debate snowball rolling. More
successful than any pope or archbishop in stirring that up in my
lifetime.

Where Dawkins fails is in his Jihad-style dogmatic belief in science
as the the whole alternative.
But you knew that ... just an overstatement in your opening remark.
Ian