(April 11, 2013 at 2:21 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: 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?
I think that is essentially his point(as far as I can tell), however, I have never met anyone that argues that. Perhaps he is talking about people that indiscriminately believe that scientific progression will always lead to a net positive.
The OP was so muddled and devoid of any corroborating evidence that it was hard to distinguish whether this was a valid criticism or an emotive rant.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
