he wasn’t just about proving believers wrong, but about educating them, helping them see what is right, because he wanted to help those who believed harmful nonsense.
Bizarre obit claim: "Most important I think was his fearless work showing how science actually disproves God, rather than just saying as other scientists did that science “had no need of that hypothesis.” "
That I gotta see.
He was a leading advocate of that conceit.Maybe I'm misremembering, but I recall a lot of it being appeals to the unproven Multiverse?
Hurray!
When I read obituaries of vocal atheists like Stenger, I wonder how they got that way? Their motivations are far more interesting than their conclusions, but they always seem to be glossed into hagiography. It would be great to know what life event made them want to dedicate every spare hour to a polemical approach to science.
It is a fantastically stark contrast.not sure how else to explain the "Science => Moon, Religion => 9/11" comment. Would be curious to see why he believed that.
Because it is true?Stenger also seemed to think some kind of optimistic humanism simply follows from materialism - not sure how else to explain the "Science => Moon, Religion => 9/11" comment. Would be curious to see why he believed that.
Classy.Hurray!
It is a bad road to go down. But I don't see any atheists who have given any hope in this very dark world. The job of an atheist is to extinguish the light and to kill all hope. The job of the atheist is to remind us that the world is Godless and hopeless (regardless of whether it is true or not).I don't think we should be celebrating Stenger's death. Seems a bad road to go down...
Hurray!
It is a bad road to go down. But I don't see any atheists who have given any hope in this very dark world. The job of an atheist is to extinguish the light and to kill all hope. The job of the atheist is to remind us that the world is Godless and hopeless (regardless of whether it is true or not).
Science leads to atomic weapons and religion to charity. Both are absurdly simplistic claims.Because it is true?
It is a bad road to go down. But I don't see any atheists who have given any hope in this very dark world. The job of an atheist is to extinguish the light and to kill all hope. The job of the atheist is to remind us that the world is Godless and hopeless (regardless of whether it is true or not).
That's nice. But in the end, I still think there's a spirit world. From a physics point of view, it's the only explanation that makes sense. I don't buy this "nobody understands" atheist propaganda. There are a ton of problems with the atheist belief system. Shall I name them? The physics constants have no known cause. This fine tuned universe just popped into existence from "no known cause". There is nothing in physics (mass, distance, charge, spin, acceleration, time, etc...) that can account for consciousness. This whole idea that the universe came from randomness is not physics, not proven, but is merely conjecture.What a stupid comment. You lump an entire group of people into one basket. I might not agree with the new atheist movement, but many of them helped people break free of their oppressive religious beliefs that were making them miserable, guilty, self loathing etc. This is something I can admire them for, the only problem is that it also makes them uncritically dismiss psi etc, because of its (wrongful) association with religious and spiritual beliefs.
I also applauded the death of Sadam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden.How charming, rejoicing in the death of another.
I also applauded the death of Sadam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden.