You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hey, welcome to episode 34 of atheistically speaking. I'm your host Thomas Smith. In this

episode we have part two of my interview with Thomas Wells discussing why

he's not an atheist even though he is sort of a joke title but the point

was why he's sort of distancing himself from the new atheists is essentially the point and seems like a lot of people are doing that these days so

so without further ado I'll go ahead and get to the second part of the interview and then afterwards we'll have some more analysis and

stuff and get to a lot of your comments tons of comments on this this was oddly

enough second only to Greta Christina and feminism. This is second most comments. So that's great. Thank you guys and keep it up.

All right, here's that part two.

Another section of the article was a criticism of the kind of rationality that you

you're going to be concerned with.

So the majority of term for this is scientism.

Of course that's not what the new atheists call it.

But new atheism does seem to be committed to a kind of definition of rationality

that people should justify their beliefs by rigorous empirical methods

and this really seems to come down to natural scientific methods and hence the idea of

of scientism, but the only way of knowing anything properly

is by the natural sciences.

And so I think this has some problems and this philosopher Massimo Big Nucci has explored these more

systematically than I have, but in the article I discuss how this kind of scientific seems to undermine the atheism projects in two ways.

Firstly, I think that's not a nice place, not a very

human place to have to live.

Sure, okay. Yeah, so I am, I was pointed out to me, I believe that the G is silent. So I'm glad you also pronounced the G so I don't feel so foolish for doing that. My entire episode prior where I talked to talked about this.

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