{"id":1270,"date":"2015-06-07T12:34:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T16:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2015-06-07T12:55:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T16:55:41","slug":"you-read-it-here-first-department-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1270","title":{"rendered":"You-read-it-here-first department"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is interesting: A bona fide<\/i> theologian has published at Jerry Coyne’s blog<\/a> a letter which reprises exactly my criticisms of theology.<\/p>\n

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What I ended up discovering is that there are no actual standards in theology<\/span>. If there were, then there would be unity in the field, rather than division.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Right. As I said here<\/a>, “reasoning from fairy tales and without epistemic standards forever disqualifies theology as a bona fide<\/i> branch of knowledge amongst intellectually serious adults.”<\/p>\n

Theologians have no way to settle their difference<\/i> — and we have Niagaras of bloodshed to show for it.<\/p>\n

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We can only solve problems we experience in this world by reference to the world, not to otherworldly spirits whose existence has never been verified<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Longtime readers will recognize this as the ground of my refusal to accept that the so-called Problem of Evil is a legitimate, intellectually serious problem. Until you have proved that God exists, there is no basis but wishful-thinking for saying that God is all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good — and then puzzling over why the world sure doesn’t look like it.<\/p>\n

Theology is not an intellectually serious enterprise, and it is time to bring the nonsense, and the injury it does, to an end. No deference — ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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