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David Bentley Hart and Ed Feser, who is also mentioned in a comment here, are theist cranks who have both developed evasive "metaphysical arguments" which appar

David Bentley Hart and Ed Feser, who is also mentioned in a comment here, are theist cranks who have both developed evasive "metaphysical arguments" which apparently tell us the universe has a "light of being" (DBH) or a "prime mover" (EF) which turn out, shock horror(!), to be the Christian God that they already believe in and their "arguments" tell us nothing else (e.g. they don't tell us if the universe had a beginning or not, because, of course, they don't want to go toe-to-toe with physics). DBH and EF are the latest in a long line of "philosophers" paid directly or indirectly by the corrupt church to provide sophistries to make the billions of peasant believers continue paying their tithes. Let them, with their oh-so-deep metaphysical arguments, predict something true about the universe that physics doesn't yet know and then we might listen. I'm surprised the utterances of a crank like DBH would reach the pages of HN.

smithkl42 9y ago
As it turns out, Daniel Bennett is an atheist materialist crank who has developed evasive "materialist arguments" which apparently tell us that the universe has no cause of existence, which turns out (shock, horror!) to be the standard atheist cant that he already believes, and so his arguments tell us nothing else... (Sorry, couldn't help myself.)
- Evans_Steven 9y ago
  ;) Let's see DBH review a book on neuroscience rather than shooting a fish in a barrel like Dennett's book - oh, hold on, he's not qualified to, because DBH doesn't actually know anything apart from what side his bread is buttered on.. Also, of course, physicists would accept the universe was created if evidence were found. The contorted metaphysical nonsense that DBH and EF espouse in a political defense of the church will only ever lead to the conclusion that the "Christian God exists". That is why they are cranks and not academics - they start with the answer. They and their ilk are making very nice money out of lying.

smithkl42 9y ago

As it turns out, Daniel Bennett is an atheist materialist crank who has developed evasive "materialist arguments" which apparently tell us that the universe has no cause of existence, which turns out (shock, horror!) to be the standard atheist cant that he already believes, and so his arguments tell us nothing else... (Sorry, couldn't help myself.)

Evans_Steven 9y ago
;) Let's see DBH review a book on neuroscience rather than shooting a fish in a barrel like Dennett's book - oh, hold on, he's not qualified to, because DBH doesn't actually know anything apart from what side his bread is buttered on.. Also, of course, physicists would accept the universe was created if evidence were found. The contorted metaphysical nonsense that DBH and EF espouse in a political defense of the church will only ever lead to the conclusion that the "Christian God exists". That is why they are cranks and not academics - they start with the answer. They and their ilk are making very nice money out of lying.