In a previous post I mentioned how Benjamin Ady wrote to Chuck Colson’s ministry to point out Chuck’s error regarding Richard Dawkins.
A ministry representative said that they would correct the error in Chuck’s upcoming book. Benjamin replied that he thought they should also correct the error publically. Yesterday he received this from them:
We received your most recent email regarding the misquoting of the Dawkins statement. We agree that it should be corrected publicly and we’d like to thank you for bringing this to our attention.
Our BreakPoint staff members have discussed this and as a result, we will post a correction on the script on the commentary website, and in our daily email tomorrow, we will acknowledge and correct the mistake.
You can see the correction on this page of their site (an asterisk from the relevant part of the commentary links to the correction at the bottom of the page). Today’s Breakpoint e-mail included the following:
Correction: Chuck Colson’s BreakPoint script from October 11, ” A Rational Belief,” contained an inaccuracy. Colson stated that ” Even atheist Richard Dawkins admits that there is a one-in-seven chance that God might exist.” Instead, according to a New York Times Book Review article dated October 22, 2006, “On a scale of 1 to 7, where 1 is certitude that God exists and 7 is certitude that God does not exist, Dawkins rates himself a 6: ‘I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, [Dawkins said] and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.’ “
10-31-2007 |
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