Reddit reviews Dawkins' GOD: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life

Tim Keller has some good advice about approaching new atheists in general.

You might try some things by Alister McGrath, on Dawkins views in general or specifically on the Dawkins Delusion. There's several links here, and the correspondence with Mike Poole takes on some of the more aggressive claims down the bottom of the page. William Lane Craig makes points on who designed the designer. In fact he has quite a few videos like that which can at least be a starting point.

But really the best defence against Dawkins is simply to get to know the facts. Get a book or two on the historic relationship between science and Christianity. Get to know about Christianity and what historic Christians have actually said, and it will be harder for people to present you with strawmen. Get to know what you think first, and then you know what to defend.

>He is not just some guy who write crazy books, or makes a name for himself for talking off cuff on television.

Actually that is exactly how he made the name for himself, mocking believers on television and in his books - which were specifically directed as a punch to believers, I mean the title itself "The God Delusion" speaks volumes about that man's real motives.

I never claimed to be a scientist (my husband does have a BA in physics though and he is a Christian same as myself, he used to be a staunch atheist like you). However what I learned from my research (before I even became a Chrisrtian) is that science is not as clear cut as you try to make it out to be and I have read books by PhD's in various fields of science who actually got saved during their studies because of that realization.

If you aren't scared to read one of those books please do read this one - Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life. It's written by this man Alister McGrath who has a PHd in molecular biophysics from Oxford University. His book is a brilliant critique of Dawkin's ideas as well as the statement you just wrote here. And I think by your own standards he is definitely qualified to speak on this matter, he does have a PhD in biology, not just an MA in engineering like Chuck Missler.

As for the last few sentances in your post - you know before I got saved I also thought I had it all figured out, and thought I was so clever and superior to those stupid Christians, now I look back at some of the things I used to say and really do wonder how such a person could have been me.

Like I said before I am not a scientist and I do not pretend to be one, however I have learned enough about science to realize that absolutely nothing in it can definitively exclude the possibility of God, only militant atheistic scientists such as Dawkings come to that conclusion. And the only reason for that conclusion are narcissism and pride, because if there is a God you are accountable to Him for your actions in this life and that makes a lot of people who love themselves above everything else very uncomfortable.

I do some street evangelism, and one of the main reasons people who do not believe in God close themselves to it is because they just want to be their own god in life (their words not mine). Many people we talk to "sorta believe in God" aren't interested to go any further for the same reasons.

I have seen how God works in my own life and in the lives of my brothers and sisters in Christ plenty of times. When I look at the prophetic verses in the Bible which talk about our times and I see it all line up like a puzzle that is being put together I tremble. So even if I decided to become a biologist and put all of my efforts into study, it still would in no way cause me to lose my faith.

Before I became a Christian so many things in the world did not make sense to me I was very lost and confused, I feared many things. God opened my eyes, He made me His child, Jesus says in the Bible:

John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

At the end of the day you can either open yourself up to the possiblity that there is a God, and He is a personal God who seeks a relationship with you, or you can choose to turn away from Him, the choice is always yours there is nothing I, or anyone else, can say to change that. But I know that God is working even on your heart.

Thank you for not swearing, and I'll pray for you (and no I do not mean this in any deragatory sense).