{"id":918,"date":"2006-03-12T13:24:10","date_gmt":"2006-03-12T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/12\/i-disagree-with-a-disagreement-with-dennett\/"},"modified":"2006-03-12T13:24:10","modified_gmt":"2006-03-12T21:24:10","slug":"i-disagree-with-a-disagreement-with-dennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/12\/i-disagree-with-a-disagreement-with-dennett\/","title":{"rendered":"I Disagree with a Disagreement with Dennett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eternityroad.info\/index.php\/weblog\/frans_sunday_ruminations_holes_in_the_soul\/\">Eternity Road&#8217;s<\/a> strong disagreement with Daniel Dennett&#8217;s new book <em>Breaking The Spell: Religion As A Natural Phenomenon<\/em> lacking. Actually, his disagreement was only with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/19\/books\/review\/19wieseltier.html?ex=1298005200&#038;en=9ecb4016f9ff8682&#038;ei=5090&#038;\">New York Times Book Review of the book<\/a>.<br \/>\nIt was so lacking that I think I&#8217;m going to read the book. It was pointed out to me by <a href=\"http:\/\/tjic.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/20\/fran-on-dennet\/\">TJIC<\/a> who agrees with Fran.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago, I made it through the beginnings of Dennett&#8217;s <em>Darwin&#8217;s Dangerous Idea<\/em>. I gleened some of his major points and was very impressed. My (poor) excuse for not finishing it was that it&#8217;s damn tight, damn slow reading. I became exhausted after having to re-read most pages twice. But to his credit, each one of those pages had 3 times the intelligent commentary of most books I&#8217;ve ever read.<\/p>\n<p>I just put <em>Darwin&#8217;s Dangerous Idea<\/em> on my bed. I&#8217;ve got some reading to do tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Out of left-field&#8230; I went looking for the NYT Book Review and was at once dismayed and encouraged when I saw The Da Vinci Code as the number 3 Best Seller (dismayed) on the Hardcover Fiction (encouraged) list. But that&#8217;s an entirely different discussion&#8230; mostly.<\/p>\n<p>After I look closely at the review and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/067003472X\/103-0003339-1089411?v=glance&#038;n=283155\">get the book<\/a>, I might make a call for a book club reading of the thing. That might be interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found Eternity Road&#8217;s strong disagreement with Daniel Dennett&#8217;s new book Breaking The Spell: Religion As A Natural Phenomenon lacking. Actually, his disagreement was only with the New York Times Book Review of the book. It was so lacking that I think I&#8217;m going to read the book. It was pointed out to me by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}