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By dor, Today, 11:23 AM
...many critics feel he [Dawkins] is pushing an ideology - and a fanatic one at that - and masking it as 'reason' and 'science' .
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Yes, I agree with the "critics," and Dawkins was one of the
zealots I had in mind here:
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By Megan, 01-11-2007 02:56 PM
Science is based on philosophical and methodological materialism (not that that is a bad thing, you understand), and, by definition, cannot answer metaphysical questions.
That, of course, doesn't keep some zealots from crossing the line into metaphysics, but you basically can't get there from here, IMO.
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I'm not disputing that Dawkins is pushing an ideology and masking it as 'reason' and 'science,' and that that is "just as blind as the fanatic fundamentalism they purport to detest."
I'm just pointing out that, as you know (if I am understanding you correctly), some strains of religion do the same thing, so it just seems like two sides of the same psychological coin to me.
But, as I see it, the deeper issue is:
Are we to return to a medieval book-banning mentality? Or can we allow people we don't agree with to speak and actually consider what they have to say, without demonizing their ideas via character assassination?