Bye bye, Bible: Christianity should not be mandatory

placing the Word of God on an undergraduate's bed is the most marvellous kindness the University of Aberystwyth could offer.

I wouldn't go that far but it seems rather a nice tradition and, what's in itself rather nice, the rather nice maintaining of a rather nice tradition.

'I went to remote West Wales for the diversity and the bastards put a bible on my bed.'

it was either that or a sheep

what about a Viscount biscuit?

I never said it did. My original point was that the God Delusion is a poor philosophy/theology book; it's akin to a creationist writing a book on biology. Dawkins is a fantastic biologist but a woeful philosopher.

I've not been arguing for religion, nor against atheism- I've just been saying that the God Delusion isn't a very good book.

Or you just don't understand it.

Or you just don't understand it.

I personally think it's a waste of printing costs and paper to put a Bible on everyone's bed. Lord knows that with all the non-Christian students, they probably get used as doorstops at the very best and are maybe even desecrated at the very worst.

If this were happening at my uni, I would vote against the practice, even though I am Catholic myself. I don't think it's right to just shove Bibles onto people who don't want them and might take offense or, as the article highlights, be made to feel that they're the odd one out in some way

There is zero empirical evidence to suggest that such a model will be developed in physics. I'm not saying for a second that it will never, I'm saying that believing that one day it will IS faith. Just because other areas of science have such explanations, that is not evidence that physics one day will.

Hope/belief/confidence in the future capabilities of science IS faith by Dawkins' very definition.

Poor fallacy. It assumes that either you can account for the origin of the universe using current science or you have to accept the existence of any of the God's claimed by different people. Even if science fails at giving an explanation of the origin of the universe, it does not follow that a God (i.e. a benevolent being that can do anything and knows everything) exists. Technically, the idea of an infinitely powerful God is illogical. And even if he existed, he does not seem to care much about the pain experienced by millions/billions of life forms.

No, you've incorrectly interpreted my argument. My argument is the God Delusion is a bad book, not that God exists.

Postulating that science has explained things in the past so we should expect it to explain things in the future, therefore God does not exist (which are two of the premises of Dawkins main argument) is logically, rather poor.

The cartoon was merely tongue in cheek.

As an atheist, have to agree; I can't stand Dawkins, his atheism is just so empty and devoid of any real principle.

Rather than a copy of Gideon's Bible, a free text book relating to their course would be better. The only reason the OP thinks it is much ado about nothing, is because he is a Christian. So how about a Quran in every room?