My son’s science class (8th grade, public school) is studying the scientific method. The topic of whether God is scientifically testable has come up. I posted about it on CatE, here:
Posted in A Cacophony of Posts, Ir (Helen) | Comments OffI read about this on a ‘humor’ board, but I actually think it’s rather tragic:
Why didn’t anyone try to stop him? Or try to rescue him when he disappeared below the water level?
Posted in A Cacophony of Posts, Ir (Helen) | Comments OffIn the current issue of Newsweek (note: for some reason this takes a long time to load on my computer):
The New Naysayers
In the midst of religious revival, three scholars argue that atheism is smarter.
Here’s an excerpt from the first page:
Posted in A Cacophony of Posts, Ir (Helen) | 20 Comments »Dawkins and Harris are not writing polite demurrals to the time-honored beliefs of billions; they are not issuing pleas for tolerance or moderation, but bone-rattling attacks on what they regard as a pernicious and outdated superstition. (In the spirit of scientific evenhandedness, both would call themselves agnostic, although as Dawkins says, he’s agnostic about God the same way he’s agnostic about the existence of fairies.) They ask: where do people get their idea of God? From the Bible or the Qur’an. “Tell a devout Christian … that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible,” Harris writes, “and he is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence whatsoever.”