tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post2076417268722175075..comments2023-09-25T04:26:51.568-06:00Comments on The Barefoot Bum: Truckling to the FaithfulLarry Hamelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-15579869223469196842009-04-23T20:14:00.000-06:002009-04-23T20:14:00.000-06:00Coynes point is that the NSA/NCSE is going beyond ...Coynes point is that the NSA/NCSE is going beyond a tactical position to a philosophical one. There's a point at which you just have to stand and fight.Larry Hamelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-28917431360631510612009-04-23T17:50:00.000-06:002009-04-23T17:50:00.000-06:00I agree that philosophical accommodationism is ban...I agree that philosophical accommodationism is bankrupt. But tactical accommodationism seems unavoidable, particularly for a scientific entity that relies on taxpayer largess.Comrade PhysioProfhttp://physioprof.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-9595276388525110352009-04-23T15:33:00.000-06:002009-04-23T15:33:00.000-06:00If God is to be identified with some features of t...If God is to be identified with some features of the world, in the case of Einstein, then presumably God *does* have affects in the world. Responding to these features with a sense of gratitude, piety does not seem vacuous or irreligious. And since it seems more reality based, it made be even more efficacious than religious responses made to a sky daddy. I think that is up to those religious communities which seek some reconciliation with science to do that work and a case can be made for neutrality on the part of the Nat'l Accademy of Sciences.Dwighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01022414933969854363noreply@blogger.com