Steve, Margaret, et al ... Funnily enough Margaret's closing comment is the point that perplexes me too. You admit it's a bit of a "stereotyping" problem - but I wonder what on earth people mean by "scientism". Sounds as bad as "theism" to me.
I'm about half-way through "End of Faith" and finding that Harris is pretty sharp on the details that matter, even if his assertive style sometimes grates. Somewhere much earlier in these threads I pointed out that once all the detail discussion is over, the distinction between atheism and agnosticism is of marginal significance - Harris too seems to agree with Dennett on this - that the ontological question of believing whether or not "god exists" is pretty trivial compared to the epietmological questions about what people (actually - ie in terms of action) mean by their "faith" - the nature and basis of their beliefs It's a good article. Ian 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/
