RE: So...guess I'm the new guy
August 30, 2012 at 4:09 am
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2012 at 4:09 am by Vincenzo Vinny G..)
I really want to change the perspective of atheists to whom it seems like science explains everything. They don't realize that crucial aspects of reality are untouched by science, but are dealt with by metaphysics.
They worship Dawkins, but have no metaphysical idol to bestow them with a solid metaphysical or philosophical grounding for their position. In fact, I'll bet less than two dozen users here know who Mackie is. Or his fellow aussie atheist Graham Oppy. They might know Russell. But they won't know Ruse.
They have no idea how important and influential these people were to atheism, and how they did so much more intellectually for atheism than Dawkins could ever hope to do in his wildest imaginations.
They worship Dawkins, but have no metaphysical idol to bestow them with a solid metaphysical or philosophical grounding for their position. In fact, I'll bet less than two dozen users here know who Mackie is. Or his fellow aussie atheist Graham Oppy. They might know Russell. But they won't know Ruse.
They have no idea how important and influential these people were to atheism, and how they did so much more intellectually for atheism than Dawkins could ever hope to do in his wildest imaginations.
