RE: Ignorant Atheists?
December 3, 2008 at 7:01 pm
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2008 at 7:03 pm by leo-rcc.)
EVF, you are mixing up a couple of issues here.
You claim that good people tolerate murder with the same example as I disagree with Dr. Dawkins on. Good people, theist or not, know full well that murder is not good no matter what. They may not say so when a camera is pushed in their face, but the vast majority of Muslims do not agree with suicide bombers.
Then you assert that scientists who are religious cannot be true/full scientists. That is the part above all I disagree with. The scientific method is in place to safeguard objectivity, and the scientists who are religious are very well capable of keeping their religion from interfering with their work. That is where I claim you make your no true Scotsman argument and I stand by that claim.
Then you also assert that those scientists would do a better job if they were not religious, and I see no evidence to support that.
You claim that good people tolerate murder with the same example as I disagree with Dr. Dawkins on. Good people, theist or not, know full well that murder is not good no matter what. They may not say so when a camera is pushed in their face, but the vast majority of Muslims do not agree with suicide bombers.
Then you assert that scientists who are religious cannot be true/full scientists. That is the part above all I disagree with. The scientific method is in place to safeguard objectivity, and the scientists who are religious are very well capable of keeping their religion from interfering with their work. That is where I claim you make your no true Scotsman argument and I stand by that claim.
Then you also assert that those scientists would do a better job if they were not religious, and I see no evidence to support that.
Best regards,
Leo van Miert
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Leo van Miert
Horsepower is how hard you hit the wall --Torque is how far you take the wall with you