The God Delusion - Chapter 4 Review - Part 3 of 3
Channel: Patrick Theist
Date: 2020-10-17

Finally finished chapter 4.
Again Dawkins uses the phrase 'must have'. 
(pg. 155 ...the first cause...must have been the simple basis for a self-bootstrapping crane) 
Such a statement is a "total abdication of the responsibility to find an explanation. It is a dreadful exhibition of self-indulgent, thought denying" presumptuousness. (I must give credit to Richard Dawkins for his assistance in helping me express that last sentence.)(see the section in Chapter 4: An Interlude at Cambridge)

He remains steadfastly committed to his belief in non-intelligent design.
He claims to have briefly encountered the argument from 'personal internal belief' at a conference he attended but he dismisses it in two ways.
First, he claims that it is merely illusion and hallucination, or, second: he claims that it's a trivial and dismissible form of Einsteinian theism.

Personal internal belief is the crux of truth and life.  Granted, it can be illusory, resulting in deception and chaos, or trivial resulting in foolishness. When genuine, it is neither illusory nor trivial; and we all face the genuine at one time or another.

Darwinian evolution by natural selection is his 'crane' that lifts his intellect into the self-assured comfort of atheism; but his crane is resting on sand. 
My skyhook holds fast and lifts me above the inconsequential and limited speculations of Darwin.
Do I believe in miracles? Yes. Is that embarrassing? No.
It is Dawkins who should be embarrassed at his own self-bootstrapping ideology. His pompous, aloof and condescending demeanor is clearly unwarranted when one examines the facile statements he repeats over and over in his books.

"It must have,... it must have"....eeesh.