Category Archives: Rene Descartes

Breathtaking historical ignorance watch

Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 25, 2009 3 comments

From a recent Newsweek column, via Jerry Coyne: But this version of the conversation [the version represented by Harris, Dawkins, and Hitchens--ed.] has gone on too long. We have allowed three people to frame it; its terms—submitting God to rational proofs and watching God fail—are theirs. But this approach to discussing religion far pre-dates Harris. [...]