Video of the day -- the debasement of the mind
Hitchens was right -- it poisons everything -- including, occasionally, the mind of a scientist.
posted by Infidel753 at 6:18 AM
23 July 2013
Hitchens was right -- it poisons everything -- including, occasionally, the mind of a scientist.
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Individualist, pro-technology, pro-democracy, anti-religion. I speak only for myself and not for any ideology, movement, or party. It has been my great good fortune to live my whole life free of "spirituality" of any kind. I believe that evidence and reason are the keys to understanding reality; that technology rather than ideology or politics has been the great liberator of humanity; and that in the long run, human intelligence is the most powerful force in the universe.
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3 Comments:
He's no more a "scientist" than a baloney sandwich is.
He didn't utter a single rational statement.
When he said that if science contradicts the Bible, then the science must be wrong, my jaw dropped! He completely rejects the conceptual basis of science, yet goes on to say that religion gives him a "real" reason to do science, and he cannot see any other reason for it. Amazing compartmentalisation going on there.
Shaw: The unfortunate part is that he actually is -- it's just that his own field is so far removed from anthropology and biology that he seems able to treat those completely differently, not in a scientific manner at all.
Scott: Compartmentalization is exactly it. It's an extreme case of the walling off of certain areas from rational analysis that is necessary to maintain the illusion that religion and science are compatible.
Fortunately, he's an outlier; atheism rises in prevalence as one ascends the ladder of scientific eminence (93% of members of the National Academy of Sciences who responded to a survey on the topic are atheists).
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