Now, for an exercise which requires you to apply all the lessons you have learned so far, answer one of the following questions: 9.7.1 The Questions appendix contains a piece by Richard Dawkins...

Now, for an exercise which requires you to apply all the lessons you have learned so far, answer one of the following questions:

9.7.1 The Questions appendix contains a piece by Richard Dawkins (passage 57) which concludes as follows: ‘Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the diffi cult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates the diffi cult to explain and leaves it at that. We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude that He is very, very improbable indeed.’ Using all you have learned so far, write a response to Dawkins’ argument in no more than 1,000 words.

9.7.2 Choose any topic which interests you and then write a wellargued case in support of your view on that subject in no more than 1,000 words. You may use any of the passages in the Questions appendix as a starting point, or write on some other topic or choose an essay which you have to do in some other subject you are studying. The point is to use the language of reasoning and to ask yourself the right questions to produce as well-argued a case as you can.