Thursday, January 05, 2006
The great Buckhannon mining disaster non-miracle.
Back here, I took a swipe at the religious hypocrisy related to the Buckhannon mining disaster and, not surprisingly, took a little flak because of it. Well, turns out I wasn't the only one thinking that way.
Over here, PZ Myers jumps in with both feet, and also links to Greg Saunders at The Talent Show whose brain works the same way.
Note how you don't have to be disrespecting the victims here to still be able to take a good whack at the media. God knows (pardon the pun), they deserve it.
BY THE WAY, check out the first comment under that article at The Talent Show for one of the most meaningless, vacuous pieces of rubbish you're likely to see in print anywhere.
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I don't really see why it's so vacuous. The commenter referenced a book that offered a different way of thinking about the problem. That's a fairly substantive response to the post. Whether you agree or not is a different matter, of course -- and personally I don't find it convincing.
I call it "vacuous" because it is entirely unfalsifiable. What is presented is a picture of God that is totally indistinguishable from a God that doesn't exist.
The last sentence is particularly grating. It seems to be saying that, by acting like normal human beings -- by being sympathetic on some occasions and by being angry on others -- this somehow "proves" God's reality.
This is the same sort of crap you get from people like Paul Tillich, whose position you can read here.
It's not that I don't agree with the commenter; it's that there's nothing there to agree or disagree with. There is simply no content with which to take exception one way or the other.
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