Announcement List for the Virginia Atheists & Agnostics

[Kenneth Hawes <>]

Greetings fellow earthlings,

This week at 7pm in Monroe 124, Dan Watling will be presenting a religious perspective on the issue of divine revelation as a source of knowledge. Dan attended UVA as an undergrad and is now a graduate student in Religious Studies. A description of his talk is copied below:

I'm going to focus my talk/discussion on 3 Jewish philosophers who took the possibility of divine revelation (Jewish or otherwise) very seriously: Moses Maimonides, Baruch Spinoza, and Leo Strauss. Respectively they represent 3 different viewpoints: the reconciliation of revelation and reason, the rational rejection of revelation via history, and the assertion that theology is philosophy's only "eligible" opponent in the quest for the truth. In this way, I wish to convince atheists to take the claims of revelation seriously. I'm not trying to "convert" anybody or assert that every individual claim in the Bible or the Quran is rationally irrefutable, but that the most radical claims of revealed religion cannot be refuted so easily. 

I look forward to an engaging and respectful discussion.

Skeptically,

Kenneth

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Kenneth Hawes
University of Virginia 2014
BA Mathematics