Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Another new discovery: the God gene

In another exiting discovery for human knowledge, John Cleese has discovered the "God gene", which gives people the need to believe in God.

H/T Stephen Cook.
C. S. Lewis was making this argument back in the middle of last century; reductive naturalism explains away not only God but also the very rationality which would support reductive naturalism.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Makes perfect sense to me. I wish Mr Cleese had been my school science teacher.

byron smith said...

I think that's Dr Cleese.

Anonymous said...

Touché.

John said...

Alvin Plantinga's stuff on Evolution and Naturalism is also very good if you want a tight analytical discussion of this kind of stuff.

- John

byron smith said...

But who wants a tight analytical discussion when Dr Cleese has already so thoroughly demonstrated his position?

byron smith said...

Thanks for the tip.

Lara said...

That's awesome, but I like Nicholas Cage movies!

byron smith said...

Now we know why!