tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post4684632831986473068..comments2024-03-18T17:28:44.693-07:00Comments on Rondam Ramblings: This is why prominent atheists should not critique religionRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11752242624438232184noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-16348036373657706902015-02-05T11:28:44.805-08:002015-02-05T11:28:44.805-08:00> You should read this.
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>> One t...> You should read <a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0115-zuckerman-secular-parenting-20150115-story.html" rel="nofollow">this</a>.<br /><br />Uh oh:<br /><br />>> One telling fact from the criminology field: Atheists were almost absent from our prison population as of the late 1990s, comprising less than half of 1% of those behind bars, according to Federal Bureau of Lukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18395549142176242491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-55753613141146386272015-02-05T11:26:42.506-08:002015-02-05T11:26:42.506-08:00> > there have been a lot of really bad idea...> > there have been a lot of really bad ideas in the human sciences which have screwed them over for decades<br />> As opposed to religion, which always gets things right the first time?<br /><br />That's not a fair comparison, although it is perhaps hyperbole. What is the statement when one removes any extant hyperbole? I will point you to stuff like Joshua A. Berman's <a href="Lukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18395549142176242491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-26389580113551780632015-02-05T09:40:20.145-08:002015-02-05T09:40:20.145-08:00> there have been a lot of really bad ideas in ...> there have been a lot of really bad ideas in the human sciences which have screwed them over for decades<br /><br />As opposed to religion, which always gets things right the first time?<br /><br />You should read <a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0115-zuckerman-secular-parenting-20150115-story.html" rel="nofollow">this</a>.<br />Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752242624438232184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-91272992713690018172015-02-05T07:19:58.792-08:002015-02-05T07:19:58.792-08:00While I do find Krauss funny, there is Massimo Pig...While I do find Krauss funny, there is Massimo Pigliucci's <a href="http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2012/04/lawrence-krauss-another-physicist-with.html" rel="nofollow">Lawrence Krauss: another physicist with an anti-philosophy complex</a>, which I could understand given what I'd seen of Krauss.<br /><br />A Harvard-style debate would be awesome. I wonder if the Veritas Forum folks Lukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18395549142176242491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-2437503472712745562015-02-05T06:44:16.865-08:002015-02-05T06:44:16.865-08:00Yeah, Lawrence M. Krause would be a better debater...Yeah, Lawrence M. Krause would be a better debater than Nye. On the theist side, there are also better people. Television mono-on-mono debates aren't very good anyhow. What is needed is a Harvard-style debate with each positions "dream team."<br />Publiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00647613579979908182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-55945247014281333502015-02-04T16:50:43.300-08:002015-02-04T16:50:43.300-08:00Hear, hear, on everything but your footnote. But h...Hear, hear, on everything but your footnote. But hey, <a href="https://twitter.com/richarddawkins/status/316101862199791616" rel="nofollow">Pope Dawkins tweets</a>, "Of course you can have an opinion about Islam without having read Qur'an. You don't have to read Mein Kampf to have an opinion about nazism."<br /><br />On the footnote, I think I'll quibble not about the hard Lukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18395549142176242491noreply@blogger.com