Friday, September 02, 2005
Some particularly percipient commentary from Bill Dembski
On his blog, Bill Dembski wrote:
What we see here is a case of mass delusion in which a dysfunctional community of smug, cossetted intellectuals tell themselves exactly what they want to hear and then commend each other on their brilliance. Dawkins and Dennett made this self-congratulation explicit a few years back when they proposed referring to atheists as “brights.”
Amen to that. Although, at least the "Flying Spaghetti Monster" has a pretense of humor (and a cool pic) unlike the profoundly insipid "Project Steve" and its derivatives.
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What we see here is a case of mass delusion in which a dysfunctional community of smug, cossetted intellectuals tell themselves exactly what they want to hear and then commend each other on their brilliance. Dawkins and Dennett made this self-congratulation explicit a few years back when they proposed referring to atheists as “brights.”
Amen to that. Although, at least the "Flying Spaghetti Monster" has a pretense of humor (and a cool pic) unlike the profoundly insipid "Project Steve" and its derivatives.
# posted by O'Brien @ 9/02/2005 05:15:00 PM 
