http://www.dissimulate.org/accordingly/2007/12/09/just-cant-wait-to-be-god-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe/ We have worked hard to improve the standards of the Internet. Now it must be destroyed. Sat, 15 Oct 2011 02:37:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.dissimulate.org/accordingly/2007/12/09/just-cant-wait-to-be-god-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Thomas Clark Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:29:36 +0000 http://www.dissimulate.org/accordingly/2007/12/09/just-cant-wait-to-be-god-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe/#comment-3 Ah, but I said USEFUL truth, didn't I? Given that the 'objective' truth of anything is ultimately unknowable and inaccessible to us, we are sadly reduced to such indicators as reliability and usefulness in selecting what are or are not going to accept as truths. Mozart coheres with the network of truths I have assembled throughout life; so do Arsenal; but Dawkins doesn't, and there's an end of him. Ah, but I said USEFUL truth, didn’t I? Given that the ‘objective’ truth of anything is ultimately unknowable and inaccessible to us, we are sadly reduced to such indicators as reliability and usefulness in selecting what are or are not going to accept as truths. Mozart coheres with the network of truths I have assembled throughout life; so do Arsenal; but Dawkins doesn’t, and there’s an end of him.

]]> http://www.dissimulate.org/accordingly/2007/12/09/just-cant-wait-to-be-god-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe/comment-page-1/#comment-2 warren zevon lives Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:28:27 +0000 http://www.dissimulate.org/accordingly/2007/12/09/just-cant-wait-to-be-god-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe/#comment-2 Dawkins? Come on matey, you know he is no literary writer. His book is polemic and not designed to be read as "art". Mocking a renowned scientist for insisiting on scientifc proof for evidence seems churlish in the extreme. Is there really truth in a piece of music, or are there as many "truths" as listeners? Scientific truth is all about objectivity, creation myths are dependent for belief on being born into that particular tribe. Dawkins? Come on matey, you know he is no literary writer. His book is polemic and not designed to be read as “art”. Mocking a renowned scientist for insisiting on scientifc proof for evidence seems churlish in the extreme. Is there really truth in a piece of music, or are there as many “truths” as listeners? Scientific truth is all about objectivity, creation myths are dependent for belief on being born into that particular tribe.

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