Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger on Intelligent Design and His Conversion to Christianity
David Klinghoffer
David Klinghoffer
Quote:Sanger went on to obtain a PhD in philosophy. He was content with his agnosticism until a student of his own posed a question about the fine-tuning of the universe and whether it pointed to a mind behind nature. Sanger hadn’t heard that argument before. He was startled by the power and cogency of the challenge. Later he would go on to read and listen to ID material from William Dembski, Stephen Meyer, and others.
The result from that and other study was Sanger’s religious conversion. In a second part of the interview, Jacobson and McDiarmid discuss with him his work with online encyclopedias, especially Wikipedia. Sanger came to our attention several years ago when he criticized the absurdly biased treatment of ID by Wikipedia’s anonymous editors. Yes, that treatment is as absurd as ever and, in the follow-up, Sanger promises to discuss why neutrality is so hard to achieve in that and other online contexts.
This, as I said, is Part 1. Download the podcast or listen to it here. Stayed tuned for Part 2, coming up.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
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