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by David Turell , Friday, December 11, 2009, 00:38 (5273 days ago) @ David Turell


> > > If you are trying tp discredit Stenger, you're going to have to find better witnesses than these.
> > 
> > I will. That should be easy.-
A further exploration by Google finds many discussions of the New Militant Atheists,including Stenger.- A somewhat favorable review of Stenger's "The New Atheism", but does contain some unfavorable comments and closes with the quote from Sagan below:-
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?id=5241&type=book-
Let me close with a quote from Carl Sagan:
"Those who raise questions about the God hypothesis and the soul hypothesis are by no means all atheists. An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence. Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists. To be certain of the existence of God and to be certain of the nonexistence of God seem to me to be the confident extremes in a subject so riddled with doubt and uncertainty as to inspire very little confidence indeed. A wide range of intermediate positions seems admissible, and considering the enormous emotional energies with which the subject is invested, a questioning, courageous and open mind seems to be the essential tool for narrowing the range of our collective ignorance on the subject of the existence of God."— "The Amniotic Universe," Broca's Brain-
A negative review by George Ellis of Stenger's, God: A failed hypothesis. Ellis is a mathematician in South Africa. :-
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/27736 -A discussion by Siegel that militant atheists are wrong. A religious viewpoint.-
http://www.yuricareport.com/Religion/MilitantAtheistsAreWrong.html -Grinnell, a prof. of cell biology at Texas SW Med School, discusses Intelligible and Intelligent Design partially from the standpoint of quantum complimentarity:-
http://www.physics.smu.edu/pseudo/ID/intelligible.html -Discussions of Stenger's Toy Universes by Metanexus members: -http://www.metanexus.net/magazine/ArticleDetail/tabid/68/id/3051/Default.aspx -In the following William Grasse, head of Metanexus Institute, has an essay on the suitability of scientist authors (think Stenger, Dennett, Dawkins, et. al.) studying spirituality.-http://www.metanexus.net/Magazine/tabid/68/id/9925/Default.aspx