Thursday, August 16, 2007

The problem with strident scientism

In The Dawkins delusion: science good, the rest bad astrologer Neil Spencer makes some telling points on how arch-skeptics can be just as dogmatic as non-scientists. I've enjoyed Dawkins' earlier books such as The Blind Watchmaker and The Extended Phenotype, but I find his new crusade against mysticism irritating.

He rails against radical fundamentalism as the harbinger of a new dark age, without realizing he's just as radical and just as fundamentalist.

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