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  • Just Give Me That Old-time Atheism!

    06/04/2005 3:57:12 AM PDT · by MississippiMasterpiece · 71 replies · 1,201+ views
    Toronto Star ^ | May 23, 2005 | Salman Rushdie
    "Not believing in God is no excuse for being virulently anti-religious or naïvely pro-science," says Dylan Evans, a professor of robotics at the University of West England in Bristol. Evans has written an article for the Guardian of London deriding the old-fashioned, "19th-century" atheism of such prominent thinkers as Richard Dawkins and Jonathan Miller, instead proposing a new, modern atheism which "values religion, treats science as simply a means to an end and finds the meaning of life in art." Indeed, he says, religion itself is to be understood as "a kind of art, which only a child could mistake...
  • Regarding the Origin of the Universe - (excellent; reasoned; balanced; thoughtful; humbling)

    05/31/2005 11:07:29 PM PDT · by CHARLITE · 51 replies · 1,355+ views
    THE RANT.US ^ | MAY 22, 2005 | ALAN BURKHART
    Am I the only one who marvels at the futility of Man as he tries to explain the origin of the universe? The time and effort expended upon this pursuit could be far better spent upon issues that actually lack an answer. Trying to find a new explanation for the cosmos via science is like trying to reinvent the wheel. For the sake of argument let’s assume that the universe happened by accident just as many so-called scientists claim. With this as a starting point we can make the assumption that there was a source of crude matter from which...