Sam Harris is an atheist. As such, he's defined in Scripture as a fool.
When he can answer the question of how the creation came into being without a transcendent cause, he may be worth a listen..I won't hold my breath on that one.
If anyone wants to listen to fools babbling, listen to Lawrence Krause or Richard Dawkens describe how something came from nothing without a transcendent cause...during the course of their explanations, notice how "nothing" gets redefined as "something".
The universe did not self-generate as their theories claim..this is an absurdity.
Romans 1: [SUP]
18 [/SUP]For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. [SUP]
19 [/SUP]For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. [SUP]
20 [/SUP]For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,[SUP]
[g][/SUP] in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. [SUP]
21 [/SUP]For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
[SUP]22 [/SUP]Claiming to be wise, they became fools, [SUP]
23 [/SUP]and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things
This seems like as good a topic as any to bring up a great Sam Harris quote from "Letters to a Christian Nation":
"Every devout Muslim has the same reasons for being a Muslim that you have for being a Christian. And yet you do not find their reasons compelling....Why don't you lose any sleep over whether to convert to Islam? Can you prove that Allah is not the one, true God? Can you prove that the archangel Gabriel did not visit Muhammad in his cave? Of course not. But you need not prove any of these things to reject the beliefs of Muslims as absurd. The burden is upon them to prove that their beliefs about God and Muhammad are valid. They have not done this. They cannot do this....The truth is, you know exactly what it is like to be an atheist with respect to the beliefs of Muslims. Isn't it obvious Muslims are fooling themselves? Isn't it obvious that anyone who thinks that the Koran is the perfect word of the creator of the universe has not read the book critically?...Understand that the way you view Islam is precisely the way devout Muslims view Christianity. And it is the way I view all religions."