On Dennett

[_Tarski]

I keep hearing that the four horsemen are militant atheists.
Well, Dan Dennett is one of the four. I have become convinced that this is an unfair characterization of Dennett and not just because he explicitly denies being militant.
I invite everybody to watch the following interveiw, all of it, and decide.
By the end I think it is clear that Dennett is nothing like what his detracters claim.
(Tal, you too buddy)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... &plindex=1

[_CaliforniaKid]

Daniel Dennett is one of the great thinkers of our time, in my opinion.

[_Tal Bachman]

Okay amigo, I'll watch it when I have a chance. Hopefully it's better than the crude trash Dawkins spits out on religion...

[_asbestosman]

I like Dennett much better than Dawkins who I like more than Hitchins. I think Dennett is reasonable and usually fun to read or hear. Dawkins is mostly reasonable and Hitchins I see as a complete bigot.

[_The Dude]

I like Dawkins much better than Dennett, although I never read Dennett's atheism book. Maybe it's biology vs. philosophy and that's why I prefer Dawkins. Dennett is kind of opaque sometimes with his philosophical thought experiments, whereas Dawkins really explains things the way I understand them.

Hitchens is a pathological contrarian. I can't stand him. He talks total trash whether it's atheism, or Iraq, or Obama. What does he agree with, besides himself?

[_Moniker]

I really like Dennett, a lot.

I don't know if this has been posted on the board or not. It's a debate between Dennett and D'Souza.

Here's part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw7J15TeDG4

Here are the others:
http://www.youtube.com/user/tothesource1

[_karl61]

Thanks for the link: I never heard about him before.

[_Tal Bachman]

I just watched the whole thing. I thought he made a lot of great points.