Comments on: Comfort - Discomfort http://dangerousintersection.org/2009/02/21/comfort-discomfort/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:29:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Erich Vieth http://dangerousintersection.org/2009/02/21/comfort-discomfort/comment-page-1/#comment-36331 Erich Vieth Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:02:50 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=5033#comment-36331 Dan: That's a terrific video. If only we could get the creationists to focus on the content of this video for ten minutes . . . especially the beautiful wrap-up. Dan: That’s a terrific video. If only we could get the creationists to focus on the content of this video for ten minutes . . . especially the beautiful wrap-up.

]]> By: Erika Price http://dangerousintersection.org/2009/02/21/comfort-discomfort/comment-page-1/#comment-36302 Erika Price Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:59:24 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=5033#comment-36302 Comfort actively has a contempt for logic. Remember his goal is to avoid the troublesome arguments of the "mind". Instead: <blockquote> "We want to emphasize the principle of swinging from the intellect straight to the conscience...You’ve eventually go to get to the heart…And that’s what we do when we ask someone if they consider themselves to be a good person.”</blockquote> I remember that the old, infamous "banana" video <a href=http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/09/15/master-plan/ rel="nofollow">made me suspect that there was something farcical about Comfort's whole display.</a> I don't actually believe this, of course, but it pleases me to know that other people have Poe's Law-related doubts as well. Comfort actively has a contempt for logic. Remember his goal is to avoid the troublesome arguments of the “mind”. Instead:

“We want to emphasize the principle of swinging from the intellect straight to the conscience…You’ve eventually go to get to the heart…And that’s what we do when we ask someone if they consider themselves to be a good person.”

I remember that the old, infamous “banana” video made me suspect that there was something farcical about Comfort’s whole display. I don’t actually believe this, of course, but it pleases me to know that other people have Poe’s Law-related doubts as well.

]]>