When an Atheist Becomes a Believer: Dawkins' Dialogue with Ayaan Hirsi Ali
It is always painful to watch one of your intellectual heroes getting older. While I and, I am sure thousands of atheists across the globe, want immortality for Richard Dawkins, he does not seem to be becoming any healthier. But I guess, the fragility of human life is yet another reason to move away from a religious intelligent-design argument. If we were created by god, why would our existence be so fragile? Why would a creator want its creation to be susceptible to so many diseases and the sufferings that come along with old age? But this essay is not about Richard Dawkins getting old. Rather it is about the dialogue he had with ex-Muslim and ex atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Ayaan Hirsi Ali who was the bastion of atheism (the fifth horsewoman) and a feminist, became a Christian a few months ago. While this came as a shock to many, what was sad was seeing Richard Dawkins stupefied at the reasons Ali gave for her conversion. Dawkins in the initial phase of the discussion says ...