(November 4, 2016 at 6:55 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 4, 2016 at 6:53 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: Welcome to the world of Harris apologists. You start discussing what he said and you end up talking almost exclusively about what he -didn't- say.
Because that's totally unimportant when he talks about things like that. We should embrace every word coming from his mouth and kiss the ground he walks on without reflecting on the actual possibility of his scenario to happen.
Exactly. He really is like a substitute charismatic religious leader for atheists. He proclaims judgement about things on which he has no expertise, experience or knowledge and his adherents follow him blindly without question.
A fundamental part of being trained up as a scientist is to only make speculations that can be backed up by hard evidence. It's always sad to see an ex scientist drop all this as they fall in love with people hanging on their every word about all kinds of things that they know nothing about.