02.23.07
Posted in Science & Religion at 5:26 pm by nemo
Sam Harris, God Intoxicated Man?.
Sam Harris pulled off a remarkable feat with his ‘end of faith’ discourse that sneaks in occult and Buddhist issues. I have called him on it several times here, but, please note, more in gest than criticism, my criticism being the inconsistency of his position. It is however almost better to be inconsistent because the issues don’t add up right in either the religious and Darwinian camps. At any rate, we can’t attack non-Christian religious modes for Christian shortcomings. And in fact the critique of ‘faith’ is an old staple of certain Indian/Sufistic groups.
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02.21.07
Posted in Evolution at 8:08 pm by nemo
God and Ghosts On the Left: see the original post, but, to walk away with the title minus the ‘god’ part, it is worth recalling the history of Darwinism wherein Wallace the budding spiritualist essentially pointed to the falsification of the Darwinian theory: ghosts are real.
But can we prove it? Consider Henry James (read the Ghosthunters). Obviously, Kant and his Visions of a Ghostseer shows us the undecidability of the question.
It seems absurd to secularists but the question of a ‘ghost’ is actually quite simple. It should be an adjunct to philosophical study, via Kantian (theistic?)/Schopenhauerian (atheistic?) transcendental idealism and its various transcendental deductions.
The point, in any case is clear: Wallace saw that the Darwinian account couldn’t possibly be right, and had the honesty to admit it.
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Posted in Evolution at 4:21 pm by nemo
Non-scientific theories have a place in schools
But maybe there is a problem with the standard JFK assassination scenario!
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