Atheist Burnout and the Direction of Philosophy of Religion |
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Monday, 06 September 2010 06:22 |
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You may have already seen this, but in case you havent, philosopher Keith Parsons, author of the 1990 God and the Burden of Proof, among many other articles, has quit philosophy of religion. He writes: I have to confess that I now regard "the case for theism" as a fraud and I can no longer take it seriously enough to present it to a class as a respectable philosophical position--no more than I could present intelligent design as a legitimate biological theory. BTW, in saying that I now consider the case for theism to be a fraud, I do not mean to charge that the people making that case are frauds who aim to fool us with claims they know to be empty. No, theistic philosophers and apologists are almost painfully earnest and honest; I dont think there is a Bernie Madoff in the bunch. I just cannot take their arguments seriously any more, and if you cannot take something seriously, you should not try to devote serious academic attention to it. Ive turned the philosophy of religion courses over to a colleague. In the comments, Theodore Drange, author of Nonbelief and Evil, adds, "I, too, have little interest in...
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