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| A mid-17th century engraving of Anselmn |
[Originally published, without an image, on December 6, 2007. Dawkins’ reference to the “ironic ‘proof’ ” he announces understates the pleasure it afforded me when I read it again this year.]
In the year 1078, St. Anselm of Canterbury (England) proposed an “ontological argument” for the existence of God:
