Sunday, August 14, 2011

Atheism


Secularist explanations of the world (modern physics, astronomy, evolution) have NOT  made the world less wondrous, and have not undermined the validity or the authority of our wonderment. Taking pleasure in the flight of a bird is not undermined by knowing a lot more than our ancestors did about how that bird evolved, and about how it works: on the contrary. 


Atheism  finds and create its own values, and these are quite varied—for instance, “helping children with their homework or cooking good meals,” or “men campaigning to protect doctors from murderous antiabortion activists.

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