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December 9, 2009
December 5, 2009
BY ROBERT WRIGHT | DECEMBER 2009
Why even some of the most zealous non-believers may abandon the crusade against religion.
November 26, 2009
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
November 26, 2009
Just a few years ago, it seemed curious that an omniscient, omnipotent God wouldn't smite tormentors like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris. They all published best-selling books excoriating religion and practically inviting lightning bolts.
November 22, 2009
This was a very interesting talk, and Dehaene and colleagues are doing fascinating neuroscience. But as is often the case with neuroscientists engaged in fascinating research, Dehaene seems impatient with related problems in philosophy. Finding such problems boring is not the same as solving them, however. Dehaene may have added a few bars to the tune, but he is still whistling past the graveyard on the deeper problem of consciousness….
The tension between atheism and biology suggested in the article does not exist. In fact, there is no logical space in which it could exist…
November 15, 2009
November 5, 2009
By
Dan Jones
Published 05 November 2009
Two hundred years after Darwin's birth, scientists still can't agree on whether evolution and religion can happily coexist
October 23, 2009
By Lisa Miller
Published Oct 22, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Nov 2, 2009
For five years, since the publication of Sam Harris's The End of Faith, the so-called faith-versus-reason debate has been a favorite pastime of certain secularists and intellectuals, the subject of innumerable books and lecture series…
October 19, 2009
By Karen Armstrong
So-called new atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens have denounced religious belief as not only retrograde but evil; they regard themselves as the vanguard of a campaign to expunge it from human consciousness.
October 8, 2009
By Damian Thompson
October 7th, 2009
A "triumphalistic, self-righteous atheism" inspired by the work of Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris is winning a following among American young people, leading to "atheist clubs" in high schools, according to Cardinal Francis George of Chicago.
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