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March 23, 2014 • 3:15 pm
Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
He’s starting to become something like an atheistic version of Tony Robbins. This is the kind of feel-good inspirational schlock of which every thinking person should beware and keep at at bay. So, to answer your question, Jerry: No, we don’t.
I wish he hadn’t called his book ‘Religion…’ Virtues and values have been written about by cultures without any notion of religion, and recently Sam Harris has written about ‘The Moral Landscape’.
So I don’t see this list as ‘slock’, just fodder to review one’s own values. Those of us with an intellectual bent have a real value for example, of preventing disinformation. Most of the cited list have psychological backing; and it is different from the dreaded ‘new age’ nonsense.
It may have been better labelled Secular Values, to rescue them from all the god botherers, who irritatingly conflate religion and values.
However, I can appreciate it will look like meddling from de Botton.