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The Sunday Debate: Atheism is the New Fundamentalism
Intelligence Squared
The New Fundamentalism
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fundamentalism has four main characteristics. Nothing is allowed to count against it Creationism the belief that the world was created in a very short time as it were really made is Denied by every possible branch of science cosmology paleontology geology etc etc. It ignores the fact that the greatest philosophers in Western Society down the ages for 2000 years or more have either been religious believers or have had a philosophy which points to Religious belief they simply do not take that into account. The heart of this debate is the kind of God we do believe in or do not believe in Thank you very much indeed Richard Harris Well, I'm manfully combating against an act of God with a downpour or an
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