So many things are stupid. This is stupid.
Our culture has become impoverished by certainty…Doubt and its religious cousin agnosticism, a word rarely heard nowadays, may have fallen out of fashion, but they have much to teach us, despite the disdain of Richard Dawkins, who famously wrote in The God Delusion: “I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden.”
And then Christopher Lane cites the disdain of some religious boffin, right?
No.
No, his only example of disdain for doubt (and agnosticism) is Richard Dawkins.
That’s stupid.
It’s just plain stupid. As if* Dawkins were the most dogmatic person on the face of the earth! As if there … Read the rest