Jordan Peterson Tells Dawkins "I Told You So!"
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🗓️ 12 July 2023
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Summary
It is typically entertaining when two popular intellectuals get into a public spat. Recently, Canadian psychologist and YouTube star Jordan Peterson called out the famous British biologist Richard Dawkins with an "I told you so!"
After Dawkins complained on Twitter about New Zealand elevating traditional Maori stories to the same level as Western science, Peterson retorted, "Welcome to the world of post-humanism, sir. A world which you sadly helped birth. … [I]t wouldn't surprise me at all if the woke polytheistic neopaganists destroy science faster than they destroy Christianity."
On one hand, Dawkins is right that the whole genius of "Western" science is that it isn't just Western. But, as Peterson not so gently noted, Dawkins has spent his career tearing down the religious foundations upon which Western science is built. Without God and all that His existence implies, there is no solid ground for saying that any knowledge, scientific or otherwise, is true for everyone.
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| 0:00.0 | With a one minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point. |
| 0:05.1 | It's typically entertaining when two popular intellectuals get into a public spat. |
| 0:09.1 | Recently, Canadian psychologists and YouTube star Jordan Peterson caught out the famous |
| 0:13.4 | British biologist Richard Dawkins within I told you so. |
| 0:17.8 | Dawkins had complained on Twitter about New Zealand elevating traditional Maori stories |
| 0:22.4 | to the same level as Western science. |
| 0:24.3 | So Peterson retorted, quote, |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to the world of posthumanism, sir, a world which you sadly helped to birth. |
| 0:30.1 | When surprised me at all, the woke polyveistic neo-paganist now destroys science faster than |
| 0:35.3 | a destroyed Christianity. |
| 0:36.9 | Well, on one hand Dawkins is certainly right that the whole genius of Western science is |
| 0:41.0 | that it's not just Western, but, as Peterson not so gently noted, Dawkins has spent his career |
| 0:46.3 | tearing down the religious foundations upon which science is built. |
| 0:50.3 | Without God and all that his existence implies, there is no solid ground to say that any knowledge |
| 0:55.8 | scientific or otherwise is actually true for everyone. |
| 0:59.3 | For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with a Point. |
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