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From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 6:30 PM
To: Lawrence Krauss
Subject: Re: an article you may both hate. or like.
or we can visit him on his
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Lawren=e Krauss <mailto: > wrote:
When I was with him yest=rday I told him we were going to caribbean and he asked where.. He h=s an island in
bahamas, making you two the only people I know who own isla=ds.. :) will ask him if he is free then. He is remarkable in
n=w movie, though the film itself is not fantastic.. he is also a pretty goo= guitarist.. his show with alice cooper and joe
perry in la was grea=.
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On Sep 18, 2015, at 9:08 AM, jeffre= E. <jeevaca=ion@gmail.com <mailtoleevacation@gmail.com»
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you can invite=depp to visit us when you are in the caribean
On Thu Se 10 2015 at 4:10 PM, Law=ence Krauss
<mailto wrote:
Ps. My piece argued against fanati=ism.
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Lawrence M. Krauss
Director, The Origins Project at ASU
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Founda=ion Professor
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On Sep 10, 2=15, at 12:02 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmaitcom
<mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com» wrote:
I think religion plays a major posi=ive role in many lives. . i dont like fanaticism on either side.
.=C24> sorry
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Noam Chomsky
<mailto <=span> wrote:
Thanks for sending. A wide=area of agreement, but not total.
On confronting dogma, I of course agree — though in=my opinion the secular religions —
nationalist fanaticism, etc. =E2404 are much more dangerous. And if some find rational discussion offensive — as, for
example, mainstream academ=cs find dismantling myths of "American exceptionalism" or =E244Israeli self-defense"
or Obama's mass murder campa=gn, etc., offensive — so be it.
Q=A0
But I don*=99t see why that should extend to ridicule. That includes astrologis=s.
Astronomers can refute astrology, while recognizing that perfectl= honest and deluded people may believe it and should
be treated with respect, while th=ir beliefs are confronted with evidence. I also don't see wh= we should ridicule
religious dogma, just as I don't think we shou=d ridicule the much more pernicious secular dogmas. Rather, we should
respond to irrational belief with argument and evidence=while recognizing that their advocates (like most of the
intellectual worl= in the case of secular dogma) are people who we should be responding to b=t without ridiculing them.
It may be hard sometimes. For example, when the icon and founding fathe= of sober non-sentimental Realism in
International Affairs informs us that=the US, unlike other countries, has a "transcendental purpose,Q=804e and the fact
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that it constantly acts in contradiction to its purpose doesn't matter because the facts are just "=buse of history" while
real history is "the evidence of history as our minds reflect=it," then it's hard to avoid ridicule. But we should= There's
no point ridiculing virtually the entire IR profession and=the major journals, even though such extraordinary irrationality
leads to =ajor human disasters.
On Davis, I frankly think that's a non-is=ue. If she decides she cannot do her job as the
conditions of employ=ent require (including following the law), then she can quit and look for another job. As in any
other such case../u>
Noam
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To: Noam Chomsky mailto >; Jeffrey E.
<jeevacation@gmail.com <mailto:jeevacati=n@gmail.com»
Subject: an article you may both hate. or like.
<=span>hope all is well.
Lawrence
http://ww=.newyorker.cominews/news-deskiall-scientists-should-be-militant-
atheists</=> <http://www.newyorker.cominews/news-d=skiall-scientists-should-be-militant-atheists>
Lawrence M. Krauss
Director, The Origins Project at ASU
Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative
Foundation Professor
School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department
Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, A= 85287-1404
Research Office: Assistant (Jessica)
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