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"The New Atheists are back — and dumber than ever"
RE: "The New Atheists are back — and dumber than ever"
(December 26, 2015 at 5:41 pm)Redbeard The Pink Wrote:
(December 26, 2015 at 5:04 pm)Delicate Wrote: Well, I'll be happy to do that. But there's a problem. The kind of evidence you're asking for is naively scientific. It fails to take into account non-scientific, non-experimental evidence (eg historical) and non-evidential (ie rational) bases of justification.

I'd like to make a case for a holistic (as in wide-ranging and multifaceted) as opposed to scientistic approach to justified beliefs.

It's worth pointing out that many intelligent atheists reject scientism, and rejecting scientism doesn't entail rejecting science.

To make my case, scientism must first be demolished.


Translation: I want to be able to use the Bible and/or the ramblings of Christian historians who agree with me, and I'd like to be able to substitute arguments for actual evidence, and I'd reeeally appreciate it if we didn't look overly hard at the actual premises I make when I lay out these arguments.


Sure, bro. Bring it. Let's see what you've got.
I'd like to put my response to this uncharitable misinterpretation on hiatus while I'm hashing out my truce.
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RE: "The New Atheists are back — and dumber than ever" - by Delicate - December 26, 2015 at 5:49 pm

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