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Blinkered sages.(The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions)(Book review)
The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions, by David Berlinski (Crown Forum, 256 pp., $23.95)
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DAVID BERLINSKI'S new book describes the remarkable extent to which the dominant religion of the intelligentsia is now "science." This new religion--which is based on atheism and materialism--is actually better termed "scientism," since its religious claims far overreach its scientific content.
Scientism reflects the tendency of scientists to become what Ortega y Gasset called "barbarians of specialization." Knowing much about one thing gives them confidence to pontificate about other subjects to which their ...
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- Sam Harris Moves Beyond `Star Search'
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...Warren, one of the best-known pastors in the world, and Sam Harris, an atheist, author and Ph.D. student in neuroscience...there a God in the sense that most Americans think of him? SAM HARRIS: There's no evidence for such a God, and it's instructive...
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Sam Harris went from Star Search to Broadway, but he never had the courage to come...nominated for a Tony for his work as Jojo in the 1997 musical The Life, Sam Harris has been most deeply branded as the first champion of Star Search, the...
- The End of Faith.(book by Sam Harris)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Humanist Niose, David A. May 1, 2005 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek Meacham, Jon April 9, 2007 700+ words
...big as a bear, with a booming voice and easygoing charm. Sam Harris is compact, reserved and, despite the polemical tone of...there a God in the sense that most Americans think of him? SAM HARRIS: There's no evidence for such a God, and it's instructive...
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