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Religion and Science

Religion and Science. Circular proof. Derren Brown “Tricks of the Mind” 2007 . Why do you believe in the Bible? Because it’s God’s word And why do you believe in God? Because of what it says in the Bible . Extraordinary things require extraordinary proofs . David Hume

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Religion and Science

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  1. Religion and Science

  2. Circular proof • Derren Brown • “Tricks of the Mind” • 2007

  3. Why do you believe in the Bible? • Because it’s God’s word • And why do you believe in God? • Because of what it says in the Bible

  4. Extraordinary things require extraordinary proofs • David Hume • “no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.” • In Derren Brown ‘Tricks of the Mind’

  5. Claim is deceived Claim is true

  6. Dawkins ‘God Delusion’ (2006) ‘The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction’

  7. The Old Testament • Jealous and proud of it • Petty • Unjust • Unforgiving • Control freak • Vindictive • Blood thirsty • Ethnic cleanser • Megalomaniac • Malevolent bully

  8. ‘The Selfish Gene’ (1976)30th anniversary edition 2006Page 1 • ‘We no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with the deep problem: Is there meaning to life?’ • ‘The truth dawned on... Charles Darwin’ • ‘Philosophy and the subjects known as ‘humanities’ are still taught almost as if Darwin had never lived’

  9. Page 12 • ‘Darwin’s ‘survival of the fittest’ is really a special case of a more general law survival of the stable. The universe is populated by stable things.’

  10. Page 36 ‘...at the gene level altruism must be bad and selfishness good... Genes are competing directly with their alleles for survival, since their alleles in the gene pool are rivals for their slot on the chromosomes of future generations.’

  11. YOU SCRATCH MY BACK, I’LL RIDE YOURS Page 166 ‘If animals live together in groups their genes must get more benefit out of the association than they put in’

  12. Memes the new replicators • Page 193 • ‘The survival value of the god meme in the meme pool results from its great psychological appeal.’

  13. Endnotes ‘There is such a thing as being just plain wrong, and that is what, before 1859 all answers to those questions were’

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