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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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 Posted - 04/04/2007 : 20:14:18
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Just out at the CNN website is this headline: Collins: Why this scientist believes in God.
Ugh. It's the typical story:quote:
I did not always embrace these perspectives. As a graduate student in physical chemistry in the 1970s, I was an atheist, finding no reason to postulate the existence of any truths outside of mathematics, physics and chemistry. But then I went to medical school, and encountered life and death issues at the bedsides of my patients. Challenged by one of those patients, who asked "What do you believe, doctor?", I began searching for answers.
Ah yes, the angry atheist grad student turned believer. How hacknied. But it gets better:quote:
I had always assumed that faith was based on purely emotional and irrational arguments, and was astounded to discover, initially in the writings of the Oxford scholar C.S. Lewis and subsequently from many other sources, that one could build a very strong case for the plausibility of the existence of God on purely rational grounds. My earlier atheist's assertion that "I know there is no God" emerged as the least defensible. As the British writer G.K. Chesterton famously remarked, "Atheism is the most daring of all dogmas, for it is the assertion of a universal negative."
And all this, just in time for Easter! How fortunate!
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 04/04/2007 : 20:48:10 [Permalink]
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Yeah, I read that one, too.
There's been, what, recently from the Christian Noise Nitwits? A panel discussion about the evils of atheism, excluding atheists from the discussion. An free infomercial for New Earth Creationist and Bible-thumping fanatic Ken Ham's "museum." And this full-of-crap Christian apologist spouting lame, warmed-over lies about how logical and reasonable Christian mythology is, and touting nonexistent strong historical evidence for Jesus. I really don't remember CNN being so blatantly sectarian in past years.
I don't see how this scientist confessing to the limits of his rationality is news.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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Posted - 04/05/2007 : 06:30:35 [Permalink]
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Not different from the story about the poor guy who managed to get into physics school, spend a time in NASA and then, all of a sudden, become a believe under the coaxing of his wife.
The story in itself is commendable - someone poor getting somewhere in life through study and science - but use it as some propaganda on why Christianity is special is just... cheap. |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 04/05/2007 : 10:02:56 [Permalink]
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| This just in: more CNN reporting on religion: Are humans hard-wired for faith? I guess I have faulty wiring, then? |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 04/05/2007 : 14:25:04 [Permalink]
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And now they're plugging a church that seeks to cure porn addition.
No one should be mistaken by the claims of the religious right that the mainstream press seeks to marginalize Christianity. |
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CNN Plugs Science-and-God
