tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714522.post3072549729139275911..comments2024-03-29T07:36:41.429-04:00Comments on Incinerating Presuppositionalism: Do Gardens Imply the Existence of Invisible Magic Beings?Bahnsen Burnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11030029491768748360noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714522.post-71133001335337462662017-08-14T13:35:33.474-04:002017-08-14T13:35:33.474-04:00Hi Dawson,
how are you?
Did you see the e-mails ...Hi Dawson,<br /><br />how are you?<br /><br />Did you see the e-mails I sent (just to be sure that I used the correct e-mail).<br /><br />Keep up the good work!<br /><br />Johanl_johan_khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15467379458813206767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714522.post-84308555067151776992017-07-30T00:02:43.666-04:002017-07-30T00:02:43.666-04:00Dawson,
I am so far behind in my reading, but I&#...Dawson,<br /><br />I am so far behind in my reading, but I'm just chiming in here to say thank you once again for your latest!<br /><br />YdemocYdemochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03498165330193613762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714522.post-18899525140429617022017-07-29T13:08:41.296-04:002017-07-29T13:08:41.296-04:00Thanks for another great read.
I went over to Jam...Thanks for another great read.<br /><br />I went over to James Anderson's piece, wondering if there'd be any more depth to it...<br /><br />He dismisses fairies as having no explanatory role. But is that historically accurate? Fairy-belief, in various forms, is an old part of European cultures. Along with other sorts of animistic thinking, it served as part of pre-scientific explanations of aspects of nature, diseases, good and bad luck, cosmic origins, and ethics.<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy<br /><br />This sort of folklore, from a modern perspective, looks like proto-religion, proto-science, and proto-philosophy.<br /><br />Perhaps Anderson would be counted among those modern religionists who try to distance their own beliefs from primitive, pagan precursors. It'd be a stronger position to be able to accept that there's a genealogical continuity there, and be able to account for it.<br /><br />A modern scientifically-informed, evolutionary perspective is very much ready to embrace its history of fairy-belief. Thought evolves!<br /><br />Anderson calls Richard Dawkins' thinking about theism, as indicated by the Douglas Adams quote, 'shallow'. He briefly mentions some epistemological issues, hinting that theism would help to explain them. But a hint of an explanation isn't one. Name-dropping concepts is as shallow as anything.<br /><br />But maybe he's already written detailed treatments of the topics he mentions. I'd suggest he could do his readers the courtesy of linking to them.<br /><br />I notice he's got William Lane Craig's name in his blog's tag cloud. Does Anderson think that Craig's the man to go to for explaining these subjects? I clicked on the link and was presented with a bunch of internecine squabbling over theology. So perhaps not.<br /><br />The God Delusion is the single Dawkins book that I've read. I wouldn't recommend it.<br /><br />JJason mchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04117753894806913150noreply@blogger.com