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#323 - Science & Survival

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Zero-Sum Conflict Between Religion and Scientific Rationality

I detected it at one point in your book that there's some daylight between you and my fellow new atheists on the question of religion. I'm afraid I described you all the small-time Bertrand Russell's saying less clearly, what he said 100 years ago. And I suppose my feeling was that they can coexist. If religious dog is contrary to science, it can't. But as we both know, there are a lot of very good scientists who managed to combine that with a religious belief. We should not attack them.

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