Chopra Finds Proof of God in Yellow Flowers

The fifth installment of Deepak Chopra’s latest assault on reason is out at Huffington Post. The best thing I can say is at least this looks like the end of this series. Considering the level of irrationality here, I am at least glad that PZ Myers has spared me the need to respond by beating me in posting on this nonsense. He summarizes Chopra’s argument, to the degree that this irrational rambling can be summarized by saying, “Because I can imagine a flower, I have disproven atheism.” While Chopra doesn’t make any meaningful arguments about the existence of God, if I read much more from him I’m likely to start questioning the existence of yellow flowers.

Myers notes this after Chopra’s claim that his his recent writing “covers the basic and I think most convincing refutation of the anti-God argument.” I’m surprised that Myers also didn’t jump on Chopra for his subsequent claim that “It doesn’t prove God by any means, much less does it degrade science.” Considering the degree to which Chopra has attacked established science thoroughout his writing there is ample ground for further comment, but this has also been many times in the past.

4 Comments

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    kj says:

    “Anti-God?” That’s like saying everyone who isn’t a Catholic is a “non-Catholic,” a phrase that drove my father, who wasn’t a Catholic, nuts.

    The word “God” sums up a personal experience, and who can prove or disprove someone else’s experience? Creating an entire mythology around God &/or Goddesses, giving them powers and sons and daughters… well, that’s a story. There are many wonderful stories about Gods and Goddesses. Those who want to believe the stories are free to do so. Those who don’t are also free to do so, but that doesn’t make those people “anti-God” anymore than wanting troops home from Iraq makes a person “anti-military.”

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    kj says:

    Will we (collective, world-wide ‘we’), ever get to the point where we acknowledge each other’s personal experience of “God” with a smile and a “that’s nice, I’m happy for you”? As we do when people pull out their photos of their kids or grandkids or cats or dogs or prize-winning yellow flowers?

    Why do we (collective we again) attempt to overlay our beliefs onto someone else? Onto our public schools, our governments?

    Sigh. I guess I’m just getting in gear for the upcoming War on Christmas. 😐

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    kj says:

    New York Times:
    Pastor Chosen to Lead Christian Coalition Steps Down in Dispute Over Agenda
    ~~By NEELA BANERJEE * Published: November 28, 2006
    WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 — The president-elect of the Christian Coalition of America, which has long served as a model for activism for the religious right, has stepped down, saying the group resisted his efforts to broaden its agenda to include reducing poverty and fighting global warming.

    And again, no ‘center’ to be found. Sad.

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    kj says:

    Sorry Ron, just noticed you blogged about this below:
    Evangelicals Want to Remain Right Wing Extremists

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