A recent conference for Atheist, Beyond Belief, featured several prominent atheist and Darwin’s current bulldogs. Sam Harris is America’s latest village atheist who believes that religious beliefs just aren’t challenged. I guess that he has never heard of Voltaire, Shaw , Twain, Dewey, Nietzsche or many others. Mr. Harris doesn’t have anything new to add to the debate. He is a lightweight compared to many other critics of Christianity. In addition to calling religious people lunatics, he also takes aim at the Eucharist. Like many critics of religion, he doesn’t really examine the religious principles, he just ridicules the belief.
In the clip he discusses reconciling science and religion. He admits that science can’t disprove religion but he doesn’t seem to understand why. Science and religion are different domains. Science can’t prove that we shouldn’t kill immigrants because this isn’t a scientific question. Harris suggest that questions outside of science are silly. He eventually meanders into the problem of evil with the same casual, superficial banality.
Vox Day reviews some of Harris’ work.
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