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01/18/07
A deadly certitude
Steven Weinberg's commentary on Richard Dawkins recent book, and other musings, appears in the London Times online.
While the commentary has some breadth, it lacks depth. He makes several factual errors, a couple concerning the early church Fathers. He quickly "dispatches" the ontological, cosmological, and design arguments for God/designer.
He attacks certitude, and yet seems rather certain of the arguments he posits. Would this be hypocritical?
The problem of "deadly certitude" is not that people groups are certain they have a correct worldview, it is what they are certain of (which may be false) that can lead to troublesome or horrific consequences. For instance, the decline of civility and morals can be traced to Darwinism, which asserts, as Weinberg points out, that our moral intuitions are merely a product of random mutation and natural selection, and have no objective basis. Therefore, individuals are actually accountable to no one: not their family, their neighbors, their government, or a supernatural creator. Weinberg fails to see that we are reaping the sown seeds of materialism. Professing to be wise, he is the fool.
Click the link above for Weinberg's thought-provoking commentary.
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