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Old 04-26-2008, 09:44 AM
kerry kerry is offline
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Victor Stenger: God the Failed Hypothesis

Listened to Stenger last night at a local venue. He's less well known than Hitchens/Dawkins/Harris/Dennett but writes books in the same vein. He seems quite good at criticizing the people who argue that current science supports a God hypothesis. His most recent book argues that not only does science not support the God hypothesis but actually falsifies it. His talk spurred a fair amount of animated discussion by the audience.
Like Dawkins, he's such a died in the wool empiricist that he can't appreciate the possibility that some theists approach the question of God without attempting to justify God's existence with evidence rooted in sensation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Stenger
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