Iron
Ecclesiastical Die-Hard
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- 2004
Anyone catch the Dawkins thing on Compass tonight?
I like how he attacked relativism as self-centred and anti-intellectual, but I dont agree that science/reason is ABOVE relativism AND absolutism. He seemed shocked that society has given up on the enlightenment, but failed to realise that the very same enlightenment carried the seeds of its own destruction: the 'discovery' of meaninglessness.
I think him a fool for believing and arguing on national tv that humans can/should be satisfied with the cold, material 'facts' offered by science, and nothing else.
THIS WILL LEAD TO OUR DOWNFALL
I like how he attacked relativism as self-centred and anti-intellectual, but I dont agree that science/reason is ABOVE relativism AND absolutism. He seemed shocked that society has given up on the enlightenment, but failed to realise that the very same enlightenment carried the seeds of its own destruction: the 'discovery' of meaninglessness.
I think him a fool for believing and arguing on national tv that humans can/should be satisfied with the cold, material 'facts' offered by science, and nothing else.
THIS WILL LEAD TO OUR DOWNFALL