The tyranny of evidence

[sawyl]

A trouble with a reductio is that it's often a double edged sword: one person's absurdum is usually another's perfectly reasonable conclusion. To wit, the Barefoot Doctor's comments on Richard Dawkins' The Enemies of Reason:

Dawkins seems to be stuck in the last century. He's a very entertaining guy, but he suffers from existential insecurity: everything has to be proven before he'll believe it.

All of which doesn't so much undermine Dawkins' case, as emphasize it.

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[drspleen.livejournal.com]

I wonder how far dawkins comments go to unvert the believers. I would suspect that his hard nosed approach, no matter how logical, doesn't have much impact...