by Dave Dentel
To paraphrase Mark Twain, it’s amazing how a trifling bit of science can be exploited for the sake of scoring a political point.
A recent example of this sort of intellectual sleight of hand can be encountered on the webpages of Scientific American.
I refer to an opinion piece by Allison Hopper which asserts that religious people who reject evolution are actually supporting white supremacy.
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Godless despotism reached its apotheosis in the 20th century, killing millions and wreaking destruction on a scale unequaled in human history.
These crimes no doubt did much to taint the flavor of atheism associated with this murderous movement and the particular political forms in which it was manifested: fascism and communism.
A Review by Dave Dentel
Note: This was originally posted in 2006. Dennett’s book was one of the first I read as research for my own work, The God Imperative.
To anyone familiar with his career, it’s no surprise that Darwinist philosopher Daniel C. Dennett has a problem with religion. What is surprising, however, is the ardor with which Dennett delivers what Richard John Neuhaus of First Things characterizes as a “mugging of religion” in his latest book, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon.
Is religion a lie? Is God an illusion caused by a virus of the mind? Several best-selling atheists authors think so. And they claim science supports them, citing in particular the theory of evolution and its implicit agnosticism.
By Dave Dentel
Last week’s debate between Ken Ham and Bill Nye on the merits of creationism reminded me of a gag from the 1960s television spy spoof Get Smart.
