Sam Harris's Blog, page 43

Two White Guys Walk Into a Bar …

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…

Think Again: God

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.

Atheist clubs are springing up in American high schools, warns head of US Catholic bishops

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.

Fact Impact

By Lisa Miller | Newsweek Web Exclusive

New study of the brain shows that facts and beliefs are processed in exactly the same way.

Religion: The heart believes what it will, but the brain behaves the same either way

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Religious believers may seem to share little with nonbelievers when it comes to thinking and judgment. But a new study by UCLA researchers finds that both Christians and nonbelievers use the same parts of the brain when asked to label articles of religious faith as true or false. A report summarizing the study is published today in PLoS ONE.

The Neural Correlates of Religious and Nonreligious Belief

Sam Harris, Jonas Kaplan, and colleagues publish the first study to compare religious faith to ordinary belief at the level of the brain.

Out, Out, Damned Atheists

By Lisa Miller



The Case for God, which comes out this month, is Armstrong's 19th book, and it rides the crest of a wave of books meant to dismantle the arguments of the atheists Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins.

The Myth Of A Moderate Malaysia

In America, the so-called new atheists—most prominently Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins—don't need to think twice about ridiculing religious beliefs or savaging the most powerful priest or pastor. But in Malaysia, as elsewhere, secular liberals tend to tip-toe around Muslim religious sensibilities.

God in the Quad

By James Wood

August 31, 2009

In recent years, a resurgent evangelical Christianity has been contested by a resurgent atheism. For Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, among others, the God most worth fighting against seems to be a hybrid of a cheaply understood Old Testament, a prejudicially scanned Koran, and the sentimentalities of contemporary evangelicalism.

God in the Quad

Real Time with Bill Maher

Bill Maher interviews Sam Harris on Real Time