Hi Ron, Ron: >Steve, I think what makes atheism a threat is it is construed as >arrogant.
That is a common criticism of atheism that Sam Harris addresses in 10 Myths about atheism... http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/10-myths-and-10-truths-about-atheism1/ "When scientists don?t know something ? like why the universe came into being or how the first self-replicating molecules formed ? they admit it. Pretending to know things one doesn?t know is a profound liability in science. And yet it is the life-blood of faith-based religion. One of the monumental ironies of religious discourse can be found in the frequency with which people of faith praise themselves for their humility, while claiming to know facts about cosmology, chemistry and biology that no scientist knows. When considering questions about the nature of the cosmos and our place within it, atheists tend to draw their opinions from science. This isn?t arrogance; it is intellectual honesty." Regards, Steve Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
