Richard Dawkins Teaches the Children
In his latest book, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide (Random House, 2019), Richard Dawkins sets out to give older children and teens an introduction to reasons to doubt religion. Unfortunately he manages to perpetuate a series of historical myths in the process and the book is characteristic of prominent New Atheists’ careless attitude toward history. Most atheists come to that position more or less on their own. For me, being raised by a scientist in a family of scientists and…
