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...argue against laws because they constitute "impositions of morality" is a waste of time. Let us simply evaluate laws on their own merits, without engaging in a priori dismissal of proposals just because they are religious in origin There are many different moralities in our pluralistic society. What we must recognize is that some moralities are simply better than others...
...relevant question is whether it would be intellectually responsible to engage in an a priori dismissal of a widely contested, 850-page long work...
...Pidot criticized those who reject the work a priori, and indirectly attacked Clarke as hypocritical...
...staff's a priori rejection of any serious scholarship that challenges their long-held beliefs is very disturbing. An attitude like the staff's would have led to the rejection of the research of Galileo--and the research of countless others like him who challenged conventional wisdom with comprehensive analysis and sound logic...
Respected scholars such as Glenn Loury, Andrew Hacker and others have written short, but thoughtful responses to the book which dispute its basic claims and criticize some of its methods of argumentation. They do not dismiss the book a priori based on its rather unsettling contentions, but engage its substance...