LOL
by tdaxp ~ August 6th, 2008
Having recently survived a seminar on Discourse Analysis, I say “hear hear!”
Gene Expression: Richard Dawkins – Islamophobe?
The trend is obvious: the Islamic world-view seems well suited toward acceptance of Creationism as an alternative model toward evolutionary theory. Fact: Richard Dawkins will have to accept that multiculturalism entails respect of Difference and the Different Ways of Knowing of the Other. The Enlightenment Project (EP) which marries scientism with atheism is not cultural-fair; rather, it serves as an appropriate corrective to the over-rationalism of Western Roman Catholic Christianity. On the other hand, the EP is not an appropriate lens to apply to a non-Western culture, which has developed along its own evolutionary path which brings it to a different set of values. An alternative tint to the mirror through which humanity views the world darkly if you will. Whatever corrective there may be to non-Western dogma and rigidity, the assertions of Dead White Men and their contemporary Amen Choir are not appropriate cures!
Shouldn’t we all have been born speaking upper-class British accents?
Tim, Based on the traditional laws of the United...
August 6th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Just…lol.
August 7th, 2008 at 5:17 am
Well, I know Sam Harris admits to a mild level of intolerance, not in the context that he doesn’t want religious freedom for everyone but rather he reserves the right to call BS were he sees it.
August 7th, 2008 at 6:42 am
Jeffrey,
Sam Harris seems interesting. Take his argument on Transubstantiation, for instance:
For Harris, to assert this, he has to argue that bundle theory [2] is not only true, but that a rejection of it is bad. As bundle theory is rather esoteric:
Necessarily, for any concrete entity, a, if for any entity, b, b is a constituent of a, then b is an attribute.
I find it hard to believe. Now, bundle theory may or may not be true (it’s certainly not falsifiable, though at the same time not absurd on its face, either). But to compare rejection of it to madness? That’s the mark of an ignorant man.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Harris_(author)#Worldview
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_theory#Bundle_theory