Theism vs. Atheism ... will it ever be settled?

Before reading the article I quickly looked up who the author is ...

About her current book:

From Publishers Weekly

Robinson's new nonfiction work is drawn from her 2009 Terry lectures at Yale. More precisely, they are "lectures on religion in the light of science and philosophy." The charge is ambitious, and Robinson brings to the task a suitably wide-ranging perspective. She takes aim at the modern scholarly propensity to debunk, a practice she calls "flawed learnedness." It pitches out the babies of human insight with the bathwater of the past, preferring what she calls "parascience," a kind of pseudoscience that prizes certainty. This "parascience" is a latecomer in human thought, the product of only the last 150 years or so. Because it closes off questions, it's not even scientific. Nor does it allow space for the human mind and all the mind has produced in history and civilization. This is heady stuff that will particularly appeal to those familiar with the history of ideas and the many thinkers she cites, and to anyone willing to ponder broadly and humanistically about imponderable matters. Those who savor Robinson's clear prose will also be gratified; her mind, in thought, is elegant.
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Another postmodernist ... at least that's what I suspect.


Edited by Mr ProgFreak - October 04 2010 at 15:44

I think we should declare fatwa on Mike and make him pay with his head.

Ivan will be sent to a work camp in Democratic Kampuchea. Brother Number One will take care of him.

Actually, we should start a new genocide. Let's get rid of all religious and atheist people. Only we "I don't know anything" people should survive. Lots of doubt will be good for us...





...(and that would give me the chance to start a new religion... Maybe with Teo as prophet.. In greek, my name already is godlike...)

Henry Plainview wrote:   Sam Harris, like many anti-theists, does not understand what excommunication actually means, so that part of his argument is silly. He also places too much faith in "science" to resolve all our problems. I like science too, and it's ok to be against a god of the gaps, but I'm not sure some things will ever be possible, like an accurate lie detector. And obviously "science" has not always yielded results most people would consider ideal; ie, eugenics, lobotomies, Tuskegee, etc.

Edited by Dean - October 04 2010 at 18:09

"He has returned now to tell us to look to the sciences for enlightenment and decry that "many scientists feel that they must pretend that religion and science are compatible." Mr. Harris has no such feelings and continues his attack on the "pious delusions." Yet he never notices that many of the good things he embraces—for example, equality and opportunity for women—have been championed and better realized in mainline churches and the larger community than in the sciences."

Sorry, but no sorry ... my interest in the article ended right there.

Textbook wrote: Boy, what a joke the Catholic church has become.   Desperate for a distraction after increased attention to their incredible practice of somehow convincing communities that it's somehow in god's service for them to sodomise that community's sons, they have now declared The Simpsons A-OK because Homer is clearly Catholic.   Yet another marketing ploy, an attempt to ride the coat-tails of something that has an enormous amount of goodwill and popularity attached to it. Needless to say, the show's producers are openly horrified and have already denied that Homer is Catholic. I don't think the church even believes it, it's just a piece of fluff to make people forget the bad things.   I think what happened is that someone said something about "homos in the Catholic church" and someone heard it as "Homer's in the Catholic church."

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - October 19 2010 at 20:08

The article I read said "Vatican" but as Ivan points out it's actually the Vatican's paper. Sorry, I was mislead. Still amusing though.

I think it's because articles slamming major churches get a lot of buzz and hits, so they "accidentally" misrepresent things to make them look worse.

Mike, as a fact there's an episode where Bart goes to a Catholic School and turns to this religion and he's followed by Homer, While Marge keeps Protestant (We know Lisa is Buddhist).

*bites tongue*