Bertrand Russell's "China Teapot"

Опубликовано: 23 Декабрь 2010
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My apologies for yet another recorded essay. Work is getting in the way of my video making lately.

This is from an essay written by Bertrand Russell, "Is There a God?" which was written but never put in print by "Illustrated" in late 1952.

I've chosen some selections from the whole text of the essay.
http://www.cfpf.org.uk/articles/relig...
http://jeromekahn123.tripod.com/think...

You may not know about Bertrand Russell. Wikipedia is a fine place to start your research:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand...

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rus...

He's an enormously interesting and complex character. I've chosen this essay not because it's particularly profound, but because it's so commonly used as an illustration of skepticism about the supernatural.