11.23.09
Armstong’s Darwinism
Comment on Armstrong’s cop out on Darwinism
Todd White said,
November 23, 2009 at 2:24 pm ·
Do you have any links to articles that show how Armstrong “tossed in the towel on Darwinism?”
The Man vs God debate between Armstrong and Dawkins at the Wall Street Journal has some commentary on Armstrong’s views on Darwinism.
For someone who is trying to make the ‘case for god’, they are superficial remarks. I am not asking for an ID argument instead!
Armstrong is basically an atheist who is trying to keep her irons in the god fire, so she can be a religious expert.
The usual theme about god not being a personality sounds good to crypto-Spinozists of secularism, but it wasn’t true of the monotheism of Christians and Jews.
I should be careful of such a statement: I am not exactly a theist (or atheist) myself. Nonetheless Spinozism as a last stand for monotheism isn’t much of an argument.
Todd White said,
November 23, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Karen Armstrong sounds like an atheist who grew disillusioned with atheism because it leads to nasty consequences, and thus, tried to salvage God by saying that we should honor “Mystery” itself as a God-like force worthy of worship and sacrifice.
Needless to say, this perspective will not be persuasive to ANY atheist or believer.
Perhaps a few agnostics will find it compelling, and I’m sure the MSM will continue to honor her as a bold, trailblazing thinker (when she’s nothing of the sort). But I guess that’s inevitable when most people are tired of the New Atheists and the New Fundamentalists. They’ll cling to any mushy moderate, even if it’s a total clown like Karen Armstrong.
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November 23, 2009 at 5:37 pm
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