04.30.07
Harris on Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens, whose book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything becomes available tomorrow, will be on The Daily Show tonight.
Here’s Sam Harris had to say about the book:
“If God intended reasonable men and women to worship Him without embarrassment, why did He create Christopher Hitchens? It was a fatal miscalculation. In God Is Not Great, Hitchens not only demonstrates that religion is man-made–and made badly–he laughs the whole monstrosity to rubble. This is a profoundly clever book, addressing the most pressing social issue of our time, by one of the finest writers in the land.”
Actually the plumetting in quality from Hitchens’ other books says something about this new genre of ’science/religion’ books from Darwin oriented science defenders.
Face it, Hitchens’ ‘god is not Great’ is a pretty wretched piece. Do scientists seriously expect the broader public to take them seriously on religion?