You are speaking of careful, thoughtful atheists with some intellectual discipline. But in fact there is a large crowd of vulgar, ideological atheists, who do argue, for all practical purposes, that “science has disproved God”—you can find them in pubs, on blog sites, at meetings of local Rationalist Clubs and Ayn Rand admiration societies etc. This sort of atheism tends to be spread informally, around the dinner tables of families, on social occasions, etc., rather than through serious books. But it’s a real part of American popular culture, and has been since the 19th century. And frankly, I find it just as vulgar and uninformative as the stupidest forms of literalist fundamentalism.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:24:58 +0000