[escepticos] Re: [escepticos] Re: comentario sobre el último libro de Gardner

[Víctor R. Ruiz <rvr@...>]

  Hola:

cibernesto tecleó:
> [Ernesto] Tenía entendido que Gould era agnóstico, pero si conoces algún
> texto donde hable de su ateísmo ¿me lo puedes decir? Me haría ilusión :o)

  Skeptic: Are you an agnostic? 

  Gould: If you absolutely forced me to bet on the existence of a
conventional anthropomorphic deity, of course I'd bet no. But,
basically, Huxley was right when he said that agnosticism is the only
honorable position because we really cannot know. And that's right.
I'd be real surprised if there turned out to be a conventional God. 
I remember a story about Clarence Darrow, who was quite atheistic.
Somebody asked him: "Suppose you die and your soul goes up there and
it turns out the conventional story is true afterall?" Darrow's answer
was beautiful, and I love the way he pictured it with the 12 apostles
in the jury box and with his reputation for giving long speeches (he
spoke two straight days to save Leopold and Loeb). He said that for
once in his life he wasn't going to make a long speech. He was just
going to walk up to them, bow low to the judge's bench, and say,
"Gentlemen, I was wrong." 

  http://www.skeptic.com/04.1.sherm-gould-iv.html

  Saludetes,

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