Monday, August 31, 2009
Geneses
I don't like to keep using articles from Slate, but Slate is where responsible journalists go to play.
http://www.slate.com/id/2224777/
Saletan's argument is a salient, if journalistic, apology for (deistic) ID.
At the end of the argument, the same point as every discussion of origins.
Penn Jillette was wrong. It's intellectually dishonest to say you are an atheist. We can't answer the question of a first cause definitively.
But it's also intellectually (and morally) dishonest to answer the question with the god of the Qu'ran, Bible, or Torah. ¶ 1:55 AM
http://www.slate.com/id/2224777/
Saletan's argument is a salient, if journalistic, apology for (deistic) ID.
At the end of the argument, the same point as every discussion of origins.
Penn Jillette was wrong. It's intellectually dishonest to say you are an atheist. We can't answer the question of a first cause definitively.
But it's also intellectually (and morally) dishonest to answer the question with the god of the Qu'ran, Bible, or Torah. ¶ 1:55 AM
