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Great... so now I can't trust Richard Dawkins OR the people who review his books.

• tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
  As the twitter thread notes, he seems to have gotten some of his historical information about ancient Mesopotamia from a website called historywiz (https://www.historywiz.com/flood.htm https://www.historywiz.com/flood.htm), which I suppose is good if you are writing a 8th or 9th grade paper on the topic, but not a book.
  • Shorel 7y ago
    Interesting and informative. However your previous remark about Richard Dawkins opening up a Bible is a bit worrying. It is obvious that the missing historical information is not in the Bible, and that remark can be interpreted a bit like the point of view of Jehovah witnesses, that all you need to read is the Bible.
    • zaque1213 7y ago
      I think their statement about Dawkins’ apparently having never opened a Bible was in regard to his theological understanding, not historical. Having read Dawkins, my primary critique of him overall is that he regularly demonstrates a willful ignorance as to what religious people actually believe. He’s content to attack straw men and not the propositional truth claims at the heart of religious belief.