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Meliorism - The rise of neo-atheism and the fall of reason

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Meliorism - The rise of neo-atheism and the fall of reason
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RE: Meliorism - The rise of neo-atheism and the fall of reason
April 11, 2013 at 2:21 pm
You mean "any progression is an indiscriminately good progression" - so to continue with his analogy of the nuke, we might find nuclear energy to be good progress, but not a nuclear bomb, and he is saying that these atheists believe both to be good?
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RE: Meliorism - The rise of neo-atheism and the fall of reason - by thesummerqueen - April 11, 2013 at 2:21 pm

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