It's Christmas break (for one week,) and so I have been brushing up on my Intelligent Design emails, etc, etc. I guess Richard Dawkins just came out with a new book for children. The review I was reading came from this website. I thought it was interesting.
Inwardly, you see, I am a teacher and so the force of "teacher" compels me to share what I have found.
My roommate is still in Singapore, and so I share it here and now with this blog (and whoever may stumble upon it,) because "Digging to China" is my only outlet!
Questions I ponder:
How many people will buy this book?
How will this book influence its readers?
Will school teachers use this book for their students?
How many more children's books will Dawkins publish?
How does Dawkins know what the truth of reality is? (Does he say that truth can be found? Does he say that HE has found the truth? -- Christopher Hitchens did not make such claims.)
It follows the pattern of all thoughts of influence that have gone before it: start with the children.
How ready are our children to discern and disseminate Truth?
We are all always ready to take in and be influenced by information.
That is the problem.
That's why children are always the targets and ones to be so greatly influenced.
(And why are the mothers leaving them without a guide?)
An excerpt from the book can be heard at Amazon.com's "audible.com" tool.
It seems that perhaps, the greatest tool to enable us to see will be and is death.
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