Does Science Lead to Atheism?

Walter Veit: Alex, why did you become a philosopher?

Alex Rosenberg: I was a physics student but I made a conceptual mistake, thinking that physical explanations had to show why the actual was necessary and intelligible. It took reading David Hume to see my mistake, but by that time it was too late to go back to physics.

Alex Rosenberg: I believe that all of the major, serious, questions raised by philosophy (they’re all old, and almost all to be found in Plato) can be answered by the sciences. Philosophy is the discipline that preserves and clarifies these questions until they are finally answered by science. Bas does not hold out such a hope for science. And he is a believer.

Alex Rosenberg: I said I didn’t need to provide arguments against god’s existence because there were already so many good ones, and lots of evidence against god’s existence too. The aim of the book was to sketch out what else we atheists should endorse, if we endorse atheism owing to scientific considerations. I debated Craig for the money and the chance to plug my book. I only wish I had taken a more mocking tone and had a lighter touch. There were some non-theists in the crowd, and I think I did move one or two people who reached me afterwards by email.

Walter Veit: Have you always been an atheist?

Alex Rosenberg: I think so. Can’t recall having sincere religious belief, even as a young child. Maybe, like most people, I hoped something theistic was true.

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