Comments | chrysologus400: A culture of ignorance, intolerance, and disrespect

chrysologus400

A culture of ignorance, intolerance, and disrespect

Apr 23, 2008 13:13

It's deplorable what passes for discourse in the West today. Someone like Richard Dawkins (who in another life was a world-renowned biologist) can publish a book in which he does no or practically no research, does not seriously engage his opponents or their works, and the central thesis of which is pure question-begging, and it sells 1.5 million ( Read more... )

rant, society, intolerance, ignorance, intelligence, dawkins, politics, obama

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disheartening anonymous April 24 2008, 00:01:09 UTC

"Dawkins' question-begging goes like this ( ... )

Re: disheartening chrysologus400 April 24 2008, 00:31:47 UTC

Perhaps I was unclear in what I was doing in presenting that syllogism. I did not mean that he literally argues simply that God does not exist because only matter exists. What I meant was that that is the general thrust behind his specific arguments, none of which I have any desire to engage. I would not expect him to make the argument that I laid out because I don't think that he is even aware of his own argument. It is a presupposition that he fails to analyze. He is totally unwilling to admit the existence of the supernatural, but he doesn't show us why the supernatural doesn't exist. He simply assumes it because he thinks that biology can explain everything, but science itself clearly cannot prove that only science attains true knowledge. He acts as if science itself isn't based on a philosophy (e.g. Ockham's Razor ( ... )

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murmur000 April 24 2008, 04:08:19 UTC

wait, caleb is correcting other people's spelling now?

chrysologus400 April 24 2008, 15:33:36 UTC

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murmur000 April 24 2008, 16:37:48 UTC

THIS POST WAS GREAT!

but seriously, i love it when you write posts like this.

Re: disheartening tj9582 April 25 2008, 02:57:27 UTC

I wouldn't put much faith in Obama as a solution. He strikes me as the classic peddler of "beyondism," namely, someone who says that everyone should get beyond partisan politics, but really means that everyone should just agree with his particular partisan ideas. I don't see a man who opposed the Born-Alive Infants Act as someone who is capable of reaching any compromise on abortion, and that single issue is probably more responsible for the current religious divide between the parties than all other issues combined. He talks a good talk, but his stances are all very liberal, and I don't see any reason to think that he'll appeal even remotely to the third of the country who counts themselves as conservatives ( ... )