{"id":31083,"date":"2012-02-28T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christopher_lamb-richard_dawkins_debate_with_rowan_williams_showed_some_te\/"},"modified":"2012-02-28T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T16:00:45","slug":"christopher_lamb-richard_dawkins_debate_with_rowan_williams_showed_some_te","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31083","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Lamb&#8211;Richard Dawkins&#39; debate with Rowan Williams showed some telling misconceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the debate, it seemed that at the heart of Dawkins&#8217; difficulty with faith is his impoverished view of God and is failure to grasp more than the most simplistic understanding.<br \/>Towards the end he asked the archbishop: &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that we can explain the world, life, how it started, from nothing? &#8230; Why clutter it up with something so messy as a god?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr Williams replied that he doesn&#8217;t see clutter: &#8220;I&#8217;m not thinking of God as being shoehorned in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dawkins then said: &#8220;That is exactly how I see God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetablet.co.uk\/blogs\/248\/17\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the debate, it seemed that at the heart of Dawkins&#8217; difficulty with faith is his impoverished view of God and is failure to grasp more than the most simplistic understanding.Towards the end he asked the archbishop: &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31083\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,50,42,174,67,425,111,199,155,117,108,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-apologetics","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-atheism","category-education","category-england-uk","category-other-faiths","category-philosophy","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}