Re: [asa] Berlinski vs. the New Atheists

It's interesting to peruse somebody's rather uncharitable (is it deservedly so?)
characterization of him on Wikipedia. (And if it's on Wikipedia it has to be
true :>)

By the way -- my experience (albeit limited & intentionally so) on E-bay is that
if it's going for $200 there, then you can probably buy it off the shelf of some
starving local retailer for a lot less. People today love to assume that
"on-line" = "great deal" and "local vendors" = "ripoff" which is sorta like me
saying that Wikipedia = true. When I have too much money and just need to burn
some of it on exorbitant pricing, E-bay would do the job handily. All that
said, I'm not above chasing those "cyber-deals" myself.

--Merv

Quoting Cameron Wybrow <wybrowc@sympatico.ca>:

> As there seems to be a fair bit of interest in refuting the "new atheists"
> here, people might be interested to know that David Berlinski's book, The
> Devil's Delusion, has finally been re-issued in paperback. (The hardcover
> sold out in two months last year, and the original publisher inexplicably
> refused to put out a second print run, or a paperback! So a new publisher
> has put out the paperback.)
>
> Berlinski has been in the States promoting the book. There is a substantial
>
> new interview with him which is very good. He discusses the flaws in the
> arguments of the new atheists, but also religion and science generally.
> Information and links are here:
>
>
http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/david-berlinski-interviewed-by-greg-koukl/
>
> As the interviewer points out, in no way can Berlinski's critique of certain
>
> leading scientific personalities and theories (including neo-Darwinism) be
> construed as based on fundamentalism or literalism of any kind, as he's not
> even a Christian, but identifies himself as a secular Jew. And Berlinski is
>
> just a joy to listen to, formidably learned and articulate, yet in a sense a
>
> rebel against the elite scientific and cultured class that he belongs to.
> He does not worship what they worship, and he does not flatter what they
> flatter, and he does not cringe before their opinion. He's also
> delightfully witty, and one thing that is very much missing in all the
> Darwinism-ID-TE debates is a sense of humour.
>
> I missed the book last year, and wasn't going to pay $200 for an e-bay copy,
>
> so I haven't read it yet. But I imagine it is very good.
>
> Cameron.
>
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Received on Tue Oct 20 17:00:22 2009