...Brian Levin believes that the denial of the Holocaust pulls in people who are right-wing and anti-Semitic to conspiracy theories. People who are anti-Semitic are prejudice against Jews in every way. Do they truly believe the Holocaust did not happen because of insufficient evidence, or just because they do not like Jews? Elie Wiesel is not the only survivor to write a book about his experience. Anne Frank wrote a diary while in the Holocaust. Her diary was found later and then published. Extremists who deny the Holocaust believe Frank’s diary was a forgery, and they also believe the six million Jews who died was an exaggeration. Before the Holocaust began in 1933, there were approximately 9.5 million Jews living in Europe. If two-thirds of Jews were annihilated during the Holocaust, would not that equal out to nearly six million Jews that died? (USHMM). When the Holocaust ended in 1945, it caused a rapid growth of learning in fields such as history, philosophy, and literature. Holocaust denial in North America is important to extremists because it includes the study of these subjects, along with different governments and their political officials and also allows them to study how Jews are believed to have created the Holocaust for their own purposes. According to Brian Levin, “the Holocaust is largely or entirely a myth invented during...
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...Keith Ward Victor J. Stenger Jerome Groopman Michael Shermer Kenneth Miller Stuart Kauffman 2 4 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 Does science make belief in God obsolete? irteen views on the question Online at www.templeton.org/belief INTRODUCTION T he John Templeton Foundation serves as a philanthropic catalyst for research on what scientists and philosophers call the Big Questions. We support work at the world’s top universities in such fields as theoretical physics, cosmology, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and social science relating to love, forgiveness, creativity, purpose, and the nature and origin of religious belief. We encourage informed, open-minded dialogue between scientists and theologians as they apply themselves to the most profound issues in their particular disciplines. And, in a more practical vein, we seek to stimulate new thinking about wealth creation in the developing world, character is booklet neatly embodies our approach to the Big Questions: the contributors are education in schools and universities, and programs for cultivating the talents of the gifted. scholars and thinkers of the first rank, they address a perennial and much-disputed subject, and they bring to bear—in civil, elegant prose—a range of different perspectives. By assembling this “conversation” and inviting the public to join in, we intend to promote a dialogue that transcends familiar rhetoric and stock answers. We aim to turn discourse booklet will be a lasting...
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