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		<title>Professor Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, on &#8216;Does Science make belief in God obsolete?&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It depends.
The answer turns on whether one emphasizes belief or God. Science does not make belief in God obsolete, but it may make obsolete the reality of God, depending on how far we are able to push the science.
On the question of belief in God, the answer is clearly no. Surveys conducted in 1916 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christopher Hitchens, on &#8216;Does Science make belief in God obsolete?&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 20:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, but it should.
Until about 1832, when it first seems to have become established as a noun and a concept, the term &#8220;scientist&#8221; had no really independent meaning. &#8220;Science&#8221; meant &#8220;knowledge&#8221; in much the same way as &#8220;physic&#8221; meant medicine, and those who conducted experiments or organized field expeditions or managed laboratories were known as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Professor Victor J. Stenger, on &#8216;Does Science make belief in God obsolete?&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 20:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes.
Once upon a time there were a number of strong scientific arguments for the existence of God. One of the oldest and most prevalent is the argument from design. Most people look at the complexity of the world and cannot conceive of how it could have come about except by the action of a being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Professor Robert Sapolsky, on &#8216;Does Science make belief in God obsolete?&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[No.
Despite the fact that I&#8217;m an atheist, I recognise that belief offers something that science does not.
Science isn&#8217;t remotely about a scientist announcing truths or The Truth. It’s about stating things with a certain degree of certainty. A scientist will say, &#8220;In this experiment, I observed that A causes B; it didn&#8217;t happen every single [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William D. Phillips, a Nobel Laureate in physics, on &#8216;Does Science make belief in God obsolete?&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Absolutely not!
Now that we have scientific explanations for the natural phenomena that mystified our ancestors, many scientists and non-scientists believe that we no longer need to appeal to a supernatural God for explanations of anything, thereby making God obsolete. As for people of faith, many of them believe that science, by offering such explanations, opposes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cardinal Schönborn, the Archbishop of Vienna, on &#8216;Does Science make belief in God obsolete?&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 19:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, and yes.
No, as a matter of reason and truth. The knowledge we have gained through modern science makes belief in an Intelligence behind the cosmos more reasonable than ever.
Yes, as a matter of mood, sensibility, and sentiment. Not science itself but a reductive &#8220;scientific mentality&#8221; that often accompanies it, along with the power, control, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carl Sagan, on &#8216;Does Science make belief in God obsolete?&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 19:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, if by&#8230;
&#8220;Science&#8221; we mean the entire enterprise of secular reason and knowledge (including history and philosophy), not just people with test tubes and white lab coats.
Traditionally, a belief in God was attractive because it promised to explain the deepest puzzles about origins. Where did the world come from? What is the basis of life? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Science make belief in God obsolete?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 19:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes. But, at the same time no.
To me, the answer to this question depends, very heavily, on which definition of God is used. In the above question, replacing the word &#8216;God&#8217; with Yahweh, Allah, Zeus, Woden or Vishnu would demand a very different answer to a question pondering the obsolescence of an abstract, Einsteinian concept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United Kingdom, a Christian state? Not anymore&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;according to a United Nations investigation, into the role of religion in the UK, and also by the latest edition  of Social Trends, a report published by the Office for National Statistics and described as “An established reference source”, aggregating “social and economic data from a wide range of government departments&#8221; and painting &#8220;a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you a “fundamentalist atheist” and what is your view of religion?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another interesting blog post by Agnostic Atheist   
They have produced a very quick set of questions aimed at Atheists or Agnostics, to get a flavour of how common &#8216;fundamental atheists&#8217; really. These were my answers:
Do you consider yourself an “atheist fundamentalist?”
Nope, I guess I’d consider myself a secular Humanist, or Agnostic Atheist. I think fundamentalism has more to [...]]]></description>
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