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Hitler and Eugenics, Dawkins and Boteach, Concepts of God
| February 9, 2009 | Posted by admin under eugenics, Excerpts, Richard Dawkins |
That Hitler valued science is insufficiently appreciated. Some quotes from his Table Talk could easily have been made by such apostles of the New Atheism and enemies of Christianity as Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, or Richard Dawkins. For example, he reportedly stated that people were attracted to religion by fear of the unknown or by intellectual simplicity, but the time would come “when science can answer all the questions.”[ii]
This source has many comments to that effect. Religion would “crumble” before the “advances of science”; science cannot err too much because it is non-dogmatic and self-correcting. Hitler is quoted as saying, “science postulates the search for, and not the certain knowledge of, the truth.” Religious dogma was in conflict with research, and would collapse “under the battering-ram of science.”[iii]
In what became a minor internet controversy, Richard Dawkins compared one Boteach
Bibliography
| January 28, 2009 | Posted by admin under |
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Bibliography Amis, Martin. Koba the Dread. London: Vintage, 2003. Aschheim, Steven A. In Times of Crisis: Essays on European Culture, Germans, and Jews. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. Avrich, Paul. Russian Rebels 1600-1800. New York / London: W.W. Norton Company, 1972. Bascomb, Neal. Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young…
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