EFTA02701968.pdf

From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 4:08 PM To: Lawrence Krauss Subject: Re: an article you may both hate. or like. you can invite depp to visit us when you are in the caribe=n On Th=, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Lawrence Krauss < • wrote: P=. My piece argued against fanaticism. Lawrence M. Krauss Director= The Origins Project at ASU Foundation Professor School of Eart= & Space Exploration and Physics Department Arizona State Universit =C2 P.O. Box 871404 Tempe, AZ 85287.14=4 Research Office: , Assistant (Jessica): Origins Office (Cynthia): ori ins.asu.edu <http://origins.asu.edu/> I <=b> <=span> Sent from my iPhone On =ep 10, 2015, at 12:02 PM, jeffrey E. <[email protected] <mailto:jeevacation@gma=l.com> wrote: I think religion plays a m=jor positive role in many lives. . i dont like fanaticism on either =ide. . sorry wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Noam Chomsky a /.=» <mailto: Thanks for sending. A wide areatof agreement, but not total. On confronting dogma, I of course agr=e — though in my opinion the secular religions — nationali=t fanaticism, etc. — are much more dangerous. And if some fi=d rational discussion offensive — as, for example, EFTA_R1_02072980 EFTA02701968 mainstream academ=cs find dismantling myths of "American exceptionalism" or =E2+40Israeli self-defense" or Obama's mass murder campa=gn, etc., offensive — so be it. But I don't see why that shou=d extend to ridicule. That includes astrologists. Astronomers =an refute astrology, while recognizing that perfectly 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,40=80, and the fact 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 =ajar human disasters. On Davis, I frankly think that*=99s a non-issue. If she decides she cannot do her job as the conditi=ns of employment require (including following the law), then she can quit and look for another job. As in any other such case.=/u> Noam From: Lawrence Krauss (mailt Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 1:51 AM To: Noam Chomsky >; jeffrey E. <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]» Subject: an article you may both hate. or like. 41)=A0 hope all is well. Lawrence http://www.new=orker.com/news/news-desk/all-scientists-should-be-militant-atheists chttp://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a=l-scientists-should-be-militant-atheists> =/u> 2 EFTA_R1_02072981 EFTA02701969  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 =71404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404 Research Office: a , Assis=ant (Jessica): Origins Office (Cynthia): =/u> [email protected] ‹ > rigins.asu.edu <http://origins.asu.edu/> =C24, please note The informat=on contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-cli=nt privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only =or the use of the addressee. It is the property of JEE Unauthoriz=d use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof =s strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this return e-mail o= by e-mail to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> , and destroy this communication and all copies =hereof, including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved </=iv> =C24, please note 3 EFTA_R1_02072982 EFTA02701970 The information contained in this co=munication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may c=nstitute inside information, and is intended only for the use of the ad=ressee. It is the property of JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or co=ying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibitedand may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error,=please notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to [email protected]/=>, and destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including =11 attachments. copyright -all rights reserved 4 EFTA_R1_02072983 EFTA02701971