McGrath on The Hour

After last week’s interview with Dawkins I was interested to see Alister McGrath show up on “The Hour” the other night (view it here). McGrath has written two books in response The God Delusion: Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes and the Meaning of Life and The Dawkins Delusion? Kudos to George for bringing on a Christian who actually speaks with a certain degree of authority on the subject instead of picking an easy target like so many are prone to doing when getting the ‘Christian perspective’.

I’ll be honest, I was disappointed with McGrath. He kept repeating that science was more ‘interesting’ with belief in God but, apart from a brief summary on the creation/evolution issue within Christianity, he didn’t offer much of real substance. This is all the more frustrating because McGrath actually has asked very important questions about Dawkins’ methodology and especially meme theory (see here for a critique of Dennett regarding memes and here for a critique Dawkins’ overall argument). For those who are interested in a thoughtful and (in my opinion) convincing critique of some of Dawkins’ core ideas, McGrath has lot to offer. It’s just a shame that he didn’t develop some of these ideas in this interview.