--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <authfriend@> wrote: > > > > I wanted to let you know how grateful I am to you for > > calling my attention to Feser's blog a couple months > > ago, after he'd fallen off my radar screen. I'm in the > > process now of beefing up my rudimentary philosophy- > > of-religion background with his assistance (i.e., via > > his many posts on the topic). > > > > Currently I'm working my way through a looooong post > > on the Cosmological Argument related to his series of > > 10 posts annihilating Rosenberg's "Atheists' Guide to > > Reality." He's a really good explainer of this stuff. > > I have to keep looking up terms, but so far I've been > > able to follow him without too much trouble, and I'm > > having a wonderful time. > > > > It'll probably take me a month or so to go through > > everything he's posted along these lines (plus read > > all the articles and posts of others he links to)-- > > I've really just gotten started as of yesterday--and > > I may have to get a book or two of his as well. But > > it's such a delight to see him take apart the > > incompetent arguments of (many of?) the New Atheists. > > What is a "new" atheist, are there new ways of not > believing in things?
Hmm, interesting that you aren't familiar with the term. At first I thought perhaps that was because it was only well known in the U.S., but it turns out it was *coined* in the U.K.: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/12/richard-dawkins-issue-hitchens http://tinyurl.com/8pelmyq http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_atheism > And does he therefore have proof there is a god? Same old arguments. The problem with the New Atheists appears to be that they've never studied the arguments of classical theism and have rebutted only various comic-book versions. > Do post a link so we the curious can have a read. Here's a roundup with lotsa links: http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2012/07/classical-theism-roundup.html#more http://tinyurl.com/l6r799h Here's one detailing Feser's progression from cradle Catholic to atheist and back to Catholicism: http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2012/07/road-from-atheism.html And another roundup, including the series of 10 posts on Rosenberg's "Atheist's Guide to Reality" that I'm in the middle of now: http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2012/05/rosenberg-roundup.html And many others. Enjoy!
