Science at war with religion 94
Professor Herman Philipse, of the University of Utrecht, talks in this video about Science versus Religion.
We don’t agree with everything he says – eg. his accusation that the US is putting Holland under water – and we think he takes rather too pedantically, professorially, seriously the manifestly absurd claims of religion, such as the veracity of revelation and the efficacy of prayer, even though he does so in order to demolish them.
Also he uses up too much of his time before reaching the main theme of his address, science warring with religion. Try starting at about the 10 minutes mark.
But his conclusion is that atheism and not agnosticism is the right response to the failure of religion’s arguments, and that’s why we like his address enough to post it.
