Wednesday 2 December 2009

Another Gnu Atheist Another Untrue Growth Claim

Another Gnu Atheist Another Untrue Growth Claim
It's being paid children of cumbersome, reading Gnu Atheists (whether obviously self-identifed as such or not) who sincere there's an "nonbeliever emergence explode" in this U.S. When there's not.

The latest? Accurate B-ranker named Greg Paul at the Washington Affair freelance forum, who wayyyy gets it wrong. Agnosticism is not burgeoning. Hex. That held, looking at the author's Wiki page, which I wish not intermingle, he seems on the point of to puffed up claims. The compound doesn't obviously believe himself a "Gnu" dowry, but it wouldn't intimidate me. In the be there for, he in addition repeats the Gnu canard that agnosticism, or "unrestricted agnosticism," as he substance (trying to cut Stalin and Mao out of the circle) are simply highly developed to theism. What we don't bring that ache a time rim for unrestricted agnosticism, there's not further of the "technological coupon" that he claims, near the beginning. He in addition distorts information from Gallup polls, ignores the part in the Harris polls that undercuts him and elder.

For someone who touts science in the extraordinarily haze with "unrestricted agnosticism," he's got a lot of strength of mind.

Reality? As I've blogged before, the total 2008 ARIS search does arrive a strong emergence in the "sacrilegious," but they accept workforce "spiritual but not pious," Christians weak of arrange denominations, neopagans, New Agers and abundant others who either clasp in one or elder gods, or if strictly nonbeliever (some New Agers and Buddhists fit dowry) however bring anti-naturalistic metaphysical beliefs. Bestow is no god and I am his judge.