On 01 Jun 2014, at 02:52, meekerdb wrote:
On 5/31/2014 3:04 AM, LizR wrote:
On 31 May 2014 21:35, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
To oppose religion and science transforms science into a religion.
On the contrary, non confessional theology has to come back in the
academy, that's all. The problem is not religion, it is the
authoritative arguments. Some atheists club are worst than
catholics is the way they dismiss evidences. They confirmed my
felling that atheism is just, like Christianism, a variant of the
Aristotelian theology.
I think Dawkins is talking basically about authoritative
You (and Bruno) mean "authoritarian", not "authoritative".
I guess this is an authoritative remark. Thanks.
I saw your post and applied it already, but the probability I do the
mistake again is about 0.141592... I'm afraid :)
Bruno
Brent
arguments. He clearly has in mind the insistence that "god did it",
which stops people being able to think of alternative explanations.
I agree with him on this, even if I am personally agnostic and not
a militant atheist - god is not an explanation, it merely pushes
the question back a step.
Q Why is there something rather than nothing?
A Because god made the world.
Q So why is there god rather than nothing?
A Don't blaspheme! (or whatever)
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