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As Jack Ryan said in The Hunt for Red October, “It is wise to study the ways of one’s adversary, don’t you think?”

Wired has an article titled Battle of the New Atheism. Read it.

HT: timake.com » Battle of the New Atheism

Google Notebook is really cool. Check it out!

The only thing you ever play for is to be the best, regardless of the situation — preseason, postseason, regular season, in the playoffs or out of it… I don’t see how you can ever step out on the field and not care.

— Brett Favre

Anti-intellectualism is the accepted bigotry of evangelicalism. I cringe whenever I hear Christians disparage reason and careful thought, as if “boasting in Christ” meant something like “Go ye and be ignorant and naïve;” as if 1 Corinthians 2 established engagement of the intellect as a vice. (more…)

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

—Umberto Eco

Eco thinks it is not the world that is terrible, but our drive to make sense of it. It strikes me that he is cutting off the limb he is sitting on: in saying this, is he not attempting to make sense of the world?