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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 6

      Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Brett Moan

      People think they own public figures. Always amazed how many people told Richard Dawkins to stick to talking about biology on his own Twitter account. You don't see plumbers with 250 followers being told they can't discuss religion & politics online. Just plumbing. Entitled.https://twitter.com/BrettMoan/status/971167774910373888 …

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      Brett Moan @BrettMoan
      Replying to @gergblives @HPluckrose and 2 others
      Zero. Public figures are merely people who others have interest in when that person is in a public square, it doesn’t constitute a “responsibility” to engage with any other individual if they don’t want to, that’s kinda the point of freedom/liberty/liberalism.
      10 replies 7 retweets 34 likes
    2. Steve Mundie‏ @SteveMundie Mar 6
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Or perhaps it’s because Dawkins comments about religion are extraordinarily embarrassing and cringeworthy for a person who writes so well about biology.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 6
      Replying to @SteveMundie

      Maybe to you. I don't have the same reverence for faith and will always be grateful to him for helping me escape it.

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    4. Steve Mundie‏ @SteveMundie Mar 6
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      I don’t nor should anyone revere false opinions, incoherent conceptual formations, or ideas that don’t square with the evidence. But to grasp what Faith means in the religious sense requires a different, although not entirely unrelated, approach.

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    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 6
      Replying to @SteveMundie

      But we don't have to do that. That's what everyone has done for centuries. We can look at it an epistemological sense now with the weight of science to draw on.

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    6. Steve Mundie‏ @SteveMundie Mar 6
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      I think it’s a category mistake. For instance, Dawkins seems incapable of grasping the idea of Being qua Being, therefore God must be a form of being akin to radishes or unicorns and just as subject to scientific inquiry.

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    7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 6
      Replying to @SteveMundie

      Biologists don't really deal with being qua being, no. But there are plenty of books which do talk just like this. It's been going on for centuries. It's OK if a biologist wants to look at scientific claims in religion too.

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    8. Steve Mundie‏ @SteveMundie Mar 6
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Absolutely, as long as they belong to the same category. And the measureable consequences of religious beliefs and practices, social arrangements etc... are all fair game. But Dawkins,like all ideologues, makes strident conclusions beyond the evidence.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 6
      Replying to @SteveMundie

      Biology is a different category to theology. That's OK tho. What conclusions? That religion is silly? That the God character is immoral? That God might exist but that there's no evidence of one?

      8:13 PM - 6 Mar 2018
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        1. Steve Mundie‏ @SteveMundie Mar 7
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Religion, like government can be silly, but isn’t essentially so. God, properly understood, is not immoral. God’s existence / non existence can’t be proved, although Hitchens respected the fine tuning argument. Only reasonable positions can be reached. Ideologues claim certitude.

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