Mark Schaefer
Sep 27, 2022

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This article suffers from Christopher Hitchens Syndrome: the conflation of religion with God. It essentially says, "I have shown that one belief held by a subset of religious people is unlikely to be true given my limited understanding, THEREFORE THERE IS NO GOD."

It's amazing how many of these articles I read as a Christian agreeing with everything up until the last proposition. All of them take a leap that is unjustifiable, primarily because the authors of articles like these do not contemplate the existence of believers like me who accept science and evolution, and find them compatible with faith. These authors seem not to understand that disproving creationism is a proof against creationism—it's not a proof against God.

Now, there may not be a god—who knows—but neither this article nor the Chinese Room experiment has proven that, contrary to the claims in the article's headline.

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Mark Schaefer

Writer, lawyer, amateur linguist, theologian, and Red Sox fan. Upstate NY transplant in DC. Author of “The Certainty of Uncertainty.”