An Interview
On All Things Are Full of Gods
Orme (Duodi), 12 Ventôse, CCXXXIV
I was recently a guest on the Uncertainty Podcast, hosted by Miles Donahue, a philosophy postgraduate at Oxford. The topic was All Things Are Full of Gods and I thought the conversation an extremely fruitful one. I was very impressed by the host’s intelligence in framing his questions and in keeping the conversation on track.
Dear Dr. Hart;
(feel free to erase and delete this comment if it's not something you wish to discuss).
Two of your books when I read them- 'Atheist Delusions', and 'The Experience of God'- changed how understood history and how I felt about apologetics, respectively.
Shortly after I was received into the Orthodox Church 20 years ago, I tried reading your "The Beauty of the Infinite," and I realized I just had not read deeply and broadly enough to properly contextualize and evaluate your argument, as much as I appreciated it.
Someone told me back then that you had been "black listed" by Ivy-league academia for your positions, (entirely old fashion and out of favor as they are in our post-Christian times- as this really is the crux if we're honest).
If it is true,
Have you ever written about your experience of what you went through at that time?
I would be interested to hear about this from you first hand, if it is something you can share. Both to understand you better- someone I have grown to deeply appreciate and love since that time- and because it would very much be a sort of "street education" for us all; about bias and prejudice; about the blinding effects of vice both personal and collective; about the limitations of academic consensuses; about our times.
I dont know if enough time has passed for you yet, though. Apologies if it is too personal a question.
with respect;
-Mark Basil
Dear Dr. Hart, Are you aware of the work of Cambridge palaeobiologist Simon Conway Morris? His most recent book, "From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution," has plugs from Rupert Sheldrake and Stephen R. L. Clark.