On Oct 31, 2006, at 3:42 PM, Pim van Meurs wrote:
> Note that God being superfluous is not necessarily an argument
> against God.
This is actually a very interesting sentence. Are you meaning
"superfluous with respect to our scientific theorizing?" In other
words, this is just a way of talking about methodological naturalism.
I'm fairly certain that both Dawkins and Hauser would resist your
sympathies with belief in God, even if you distance yourself from
including God in your theorizing. This seems to be the gist of the
Wired piece--not only do these new atheists not believe in God they
think that belief in God is harmful and needs to be resisted.
TG
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