From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-04-01T04:40:35+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] On banning (Was: New presentation on Ruby)

On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, Austin Ziegler wrote:

>
> The other way of considering it the way that Dawkins has put it in _The God
> Delusion_. Science can't prove that "god" doesn't exist. It can say a lot
> about the *likelihood* of the existence of a god-the-creator, and the
> *likelihood* is very very low. Dawkins himself, when pressed, doesn't call
> himself an atheist as much as a strong agnostic with significant doubts
> about the likelihood of the existence of a god (he calls that "Temporary
> Agnosticism in Practice").
>
> He's much less forgiving of the abuse of scientific methods by theists who
> assume that a creator's existence is a given and then try to perform science
> on that basis.
>

yeah.  i read some of that.  the guy is so aggressive though, and obviously
hasn't understood godel's work on incompleteness: he seems to view logic as
some sort of finality.  otherwise interesting though.

sorry for way ot everyone.  i'm ducking out.

-a
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