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The God Fraud

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010

Sam Harris pushes back against Karen Armstrong's sympathetic take on religion.

Heaven and Nature

By ROSS DOUTHAT

December 21, 2009

Richard Dawkins has called pantheism "a sexed-up atheism." (He means that as a compliment.) Sam Harris concluded his polemic "The End of Faith" by rhapsodizing about the mystical experiences available from immersion in "the roiling mystery of the world."

Atheists need a different voice

By Stephen Prothero

We all know the names (Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens) of those angry white men who tend to antagonize the world's believers. But the most persuasive voices for the 'new New Atheism' tend to be women.

Atheists need a different voice

By Stephen Prothero

12/07/09

We all know the names (Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens) of those angry white men who tend to antagonize the world's believers. But the most persuasive voices for the 'new New Atheism' tend to be women.

The Anti-God Squad

BY ROBERT WRIGHT | DECEMBER 2009

Why even some of the most zealous non-believers may abandon the crusade against religion.

The Religious Wars

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.

Reply to Stanislas Dehaene

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….

Reply to Stanislas Dehaene

Reply to Nicholas Wade

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…

Harris, Hitchens, & Dennett vs. Boteach, D'Souza, Wright, & Taleb

Ciudad de las Ideas (Puebla, Mexico, 11/8/2009)

Since the dawn of time

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