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Comments on: The Unexamined Assumptions of the Skeptic: Alison Gopnik’s Trade of Hard Atheism for Soft Atheism https://www.aoiusa.org/the-unexamined-assumptions-of-the-skeptic-alison-gopniks-trade-of-hard-atheism-for-soft-atheism/ A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 By: 4APK.RU https://www.aoiusa.org/the-unexamined-assumptions-of-the-skeptic-alison-gopniks-trade-of-hard-atheism-for-soft-atheism/#comment-242999 Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:44:00 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=14259#comment-242999 So why the attack on religion? This irrational linkage is what makes skeptics look foolish so often. Faith in God is not the same as belief in ghosts. You made sense until your last statement.

]]> By: Thomas Miko https://www.aoiusa.org/the-unexamined-assumptions-of-the-skeptic-alison-gopniks-trade-of-hard-atheism-for-soft-atheism/#comment-235507 Sun, 15 Nov 2015 01:47:15 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=14259#comment-235507 “Gopnik’s in-passing reference to her recent research into the nature of self as a self-constructed collection of information about the self is another sloppy solipsism. For the reasons stated previously, the logical end of her research is that if the self were “self-constructed,” then there had to be something that makes the self, the self.”

The statement above ignores the well-known fact that there are many things in the physical world that demonstrate that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. A pile of electronics on the table can’t do anything until they are assembled into a calculator. The parts of a cell are worthless, until they are all stuck inside a sack whose walls are made of phospholipids. The most wonderful thing about the human mind being the product of millions of years of evolution is it then turned around, and decided that it was created by some other being(s).

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