AC Grayling: Religion in its 'death throes' (2 of 2)

January 3, 2010 on ABC Lateline (Australia) -

via http://www.AtheistMedia.com

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• australia
• christian
• creation
• evolution
• intelligent
• design
• education
• climate
• change
• global
• warming
• faith
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• atheist
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[eggs764]

i would like to add to the "teach the controversy; its only fair" rebuttal by saying that it actually isnt fair at all for creationism to cut ahead of the line and get taught in schools without going through the same scientific rigor that evolution went through to get accepted. if they want creationism taught, let them produce evidence, get it peer reviewed and earn a concensus just like evolution did.

[OpRedDawn]

Wow, an interview where a person can actually talk for more than 10 second without getting interrupted. Why can't we have that here!?

[Ematched]

@alexhamster1134 Yeah, I hadn't gotten used to my new Droid at the time I posted my comment. The text box on smartphones is ridiculously small, not allowing for a full view of the keyed text. And I didn't have sufficient time to review my comment before hitting post, seeing as I was on break at work and all.

I still should've proofread. But, eh, the meaning still slipped in.

[alexhamster1134]

@Ematched thats not the english youre looking for...

[cornflakeclusters]

@eggs764 I wish I could give your comment a million thumbs up! :D

[stevehayes13]

Grayling thinks CO2 is bad and he thinks we should reduce CO2 emissions - yet he apparently thinks nothing of jetting to Australia, the other side of the planet.

[Ematched]

@MultiNaturalist Spot on!

p.s. my Droid dictionary has greatly improved since I typed my comment into it. I can hardly recognize what I wrote as English.

[MultiNaturalist]

@Ematched Yes, there are differences between "planet stewardship" and "Pascal's wager." There are very real, physical consequences to our choices about the planet. In Pascal's wager, there are only imaginary consequences (no one has ever shown that the claimed consequences can "ever" occur under any circumstance). We may lose money by caring for the planet, where the idea is "be prepared for reality," but we lose our minds by accepting Pascal's wager. Pascal's wager has an unacceptable cost.

[writersblock26]

Thank you for posting this, AtheistMediaBlog.

[blackestjake]

Rational thought FTW! All people who believe in god are broken. Get your brain repaired.

[LockardKevin]

Religion is dying. YAY. I also love coming on Youtube and looking at the desperate tone with some of the believers on here.

[Ematched]

@dead0piggy I too thought of Pascal, but in thinking account the comment, it serena to be a matter of giving too short an answer. He was referring to elements of the debate that have a direct impact on human life: diminishing forests and animal life, increasing energy consumption, rapidly rising population, among other environmental concerns. He wasn't really giving the "what have you got to lose" ploy religionists use. He was referring to continued use of evidence.