Atheism-lite

[jack_ryder]

Questions of belief and tolerance of other's belief systems have been obsessing me lately (ferkster and I are working on a play about it right now.) I was interested in this article by Dylan Evans which posited a kind of halfway position where atheists could appreciate some aspects of religious belief without accepting the literal truth of, say, the Bible.

Salman Rushdie has written a very good rebuttal of Evan's position.

My favourite line:

Intelligent design, an idea designed backward so as to force the antique idea of a Creator upon the beauty of creation, is so thoroughly rooted in pseudoscience, so full of false logic, so easy to attack that a little rudeness seems called for.