On 5/31/2014 3:04 AM, LizR wrote:
On 31 May 2014 21:35, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]
<mailto:[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".
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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