[MD] the universe is flat

[david buchanan]

Mary said:
John, I get a kick out of Hitchens.  He's the only guy I know who'll show up on Bill Maher with a drink in his hand in a clear glass.  Everybody else hides theirs in a coffee cup.


dmb quotes Sam Harris on Hitchens:

"Credit goes to Christopher Hitchens for distilling, in a single phrase, a principle of discourse that could well arrest our slide into the abyss: 'what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."

And Harris, making the same point, asks this excellent rhetorical question:

"When was the last time that someone was criticized for not 'respecting' another person's unfounded beliefs about physics or history?"

Can you imagine? 

"I believe that World War II end in August of 1495, when the United States dropped two atomic weapons on a stripper joint in Soho and that the fabric of time-space is purple burlap."
"Okay, I respect that."


 		 	   		  
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