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Twitter Links Atheists, theists, and gnostics, oh my!
There’s a popular idea that being an atheist involves sharing the exact ideas of all non-believers, a notion I would argue is extremely misguided.…

October 24 2011, 4:36pm | Comments
Link The case for reconciling the scientific with the…
As a both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of…

October 8 2011, 10:01am | Comments
Link Can religion tell us more than science?
In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and…

September 21 2011, 3:52am | Comments
Link Can religion tell us more than science?
In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and…

September 20 2011, 3:12am | Comments
Link The New Atheism
Trapped in the childhood literalism of my background, I had not entertained the possibility of Christian belief separated from the great lure and threat of heaven and hell. The New…

August 30 2011, 8:21am | Comments
Link Secularism and Its Discontents
These are theological questions without theological answers, and, if the atheist is not supposed to entertain them, then, for slightly different reasons, neither is the religious believer. Religion assumes that…

August 9 2011, 3:57pm | Comments
Link Heaven for Atheists
It’s human nature, I suppose, to want to survive, to resist succumbing to the same fate all living things do. It’s the reason we write books, create art, have children—we’re…

July 4 2011, 9:01am | Comments
Link The New Atheists' Narrow Worldview
With tongues in cheeks, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett are embracing their reputation as the "Four Horsemen." Lampooning the anxieties of evangelicals, these best-selling atheists are…

January 24 2011, 3:58am | Comments
Link Cosmology, Cambridge Style: Wittgenstein, Toulmin, and Hawking
That headline flashed to all corners of the media universe this month. Of course, we don't know whether a universe has corners. Truth is, we don't know much about the…

September 30 2010, 4:21pm | Comments
Link An Amoral Manifesto (Part I)
Hard Atheism or What Shall I Name This Column? Hold onto your hats, folks. Although it is perhaps fitting that the actual day on which I sit here at my…

August 30 2010, 10:12am | Comments
Link The rise of the new agnostics
Let's get one thing straight: Agnosticism is not some kind of weak-tea atheism. Agnosticism is not atheism or theism. It is radical skepticism, doubt in the possibility of certainty, opposition…

July 30 2010, 4:38am | Comments
Link Believe it or Not
I think I am very close to concluding that this whole “New Atheism” movement is only a passing fad—not the cultural watershed its purveyors imagine it to be, but simply…

May 16 2010, 4:19pm | Comments
Link Conceiving God: the Cognitive Origin and Evolution of…
Atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens confront the faithful head-on, but there may be another way to dispel religious beliefs. I am not so sure about this. In my…

April 4 2010, 6:56am | Comments
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March 26 2010, 5:21am | Comments
Link The new Buddhist atheism
In God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens writes of Buddhism as the sleep of reason, and of Buddhists as discarding their minds as well as their sandals. His passionate diatribe…

March 21 2010, 12:52pm | Comments
Link Sceptic challenges guru to kill him live on…
When a famous tantric guru boasted on television that he could kill another man using only his mystical powers, most viewers either gasped in awe or merely nodded unquestioningly. Sanal…

March 21 2010, 12:49pm | Comments
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February 25 2010, 11:06am | Comments
Link Theology for atheists
Theology lets us talk about deep and irrational urges. This is seen by some atheists as weakness. But maybe it's a strength as well James Wood, a writer who himself…

January 8 2010, 3:29am | Comments
Link Atheism: class is a distraction
For some reasons it seems to be anathema to say that there might be an intrinsic reason for the correlation between educational level and the rejection of religion: atheism takes…

October 15 2009, 8:14am | Comments
Link Must science declare a holy war on religion?
This fall, evolutionary biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins -- most recently famous for his public exhortation to atheism, "The God Delusion" -- returns to writing about science. Dawkins' new…

September 17 2009, 2:32am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments
Link If Atheists Ruled the World | Youtube
Dramatised reading of message-board posts about atheism from Christian fundamentalist message boards

April 2 2009, 6:59am | Comments
Metafilter A nation of nonbelievers "The government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian Religion." ~ George Washington / "I do not find in Christianity one redeeming feature."…

January 20 2009, 12:40pm | Comments

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