Category: Atheism
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes interviews key atheists
| March 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, News |
Including: Coalescing the atheist political movement. Like we thought. more
Reason Ralliers: If you have to contrast yourself with Westboro Baptist Church in order to sound reasonable …
| March 21, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, Intelligent Design, News |
… you’re not reasonable. more
Reason Rally … not quite
| March 20, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, Free Speech, News |
Maybe it was wiser not to hold a Reason Rally if all this unsorted stuff comes tumbling out of the laundry basket at once … ? more
From New Scientist, a “god” edition
| March 19, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, News |
“To rule out god, first get to know him.” Oh yeh. Good luck with that one. more
Why do people think that they can “put down” Dawkins just by pointing out that he is ignorant and bigoted?
| March 18, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, News |
Ignorant bigots gain large followings, especially among the lazy and badly motivated. more
Edward Feser Contemplates the Reason Rally
| March 17, 2012 | Posted by nullasalus under Atheism, Philosophy |
Aristotilean/Thomist philosopher and sometimes ID Critic Edward Feser has recently penned a blog entry about the upcoming atheist “Reason Rally.” more
Peer review and atheism: “These men and women have built their entire worldview on atheism,” says physicist Frank Tipler
| March 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, News |
“They would be exceedingly reluctant to admit that any result of science could be valid if it even suggested that God could exist.” more
Christopher Hitchens discovers the hitch in life after death – it’s Hitch-22
| March 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, News |
Not only is design in nature supposed to be some kind of cosmic illusion, but … more
From The Best Schools: A Long Row of Days: Atheist Redemption in Russian playwright Chekhov
| March 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, News |
James Barham offers (March 12, 2012), “Another way of understanding Chekhov’s position is as the contrary of John Gray’s. That contemporary pessimist was observed here a while ago to be essentially saying to science and religion: “A plague on both your houses.” We may think of Chekhov as saying the exact opposite: We need… more
Why is the debate over design theory so often so poisonous and polarised, 2? (A: sadly, blood libel.)
| March 12, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Culture, Science, worldview issues and society |
Last time around, last May, the heart of the answer was: . . . if clever but willfully deceptive rhetors — Ms Forrest, B, with all due respect; sadly, this means you — can get away with strawmannising and dismissing design thinkers as “Creationists in cheap tuxedos,” where it has already been firmly fixed in… more
A girl learns the hard way what happens when you call (new) atheism a religion
| March 11, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, News |
“I was called names and insulted in ways I haven’t heard since the first Clinton administration, … ” more
James Barham at Best Schools fesses up: He’s an atheist but he thinks reality is real
| March 10, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, Education, Intelligent Design |
“… a reductionist is someone who looks you in the eye and tells you: ‘I do not exist.’ For this reason, reductionism is an incoherent position not worthy of being taken seriously.” more
When atheists get tired of Darwin …
| March 10, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News |
Haidt believes that Darwinian natural selection “offers definitive evidence-based solutions to the problems that have been baffling philosophers since the dawn of civilisation.” more
Physicist Rob Sheldon: Neo-atheism dispenses with rationality, not religion
| March 7, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
“It is not the truth but the perception of reality that is the battleground … censorship comes to be about perception, not about truth.” more
How exactly DOES one Rally for Reason anyway?
| March 6, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, News |
Yay! Yay! Major Premise! Yay! Yay! Minor Premise! (?) more
Ah, tolerance!: “You have betrayed Atheism. Go over to the other side and die.”
| March 6, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, Darwinism |
Appleyard in New Statesman: Myers … announced that he had no intention of reading the book but spent 3,000 words trashing it anyway, a remarkably frank statement of intellectual tyranny. more
Interview: Atheist Alain de Botton cases religion’s joint for something worth stealing …
| March 4, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Atheism, Culture, Science |
Puffball interviews with atheists often feature the genuine offense to good journalism that is illustrated here. more
BioLogos claims not to be Darwinist after all … and it’s not April 1 either.
| February 29, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Atheism, Christian Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
Big change in the wind? “BioLogos does not subscribe to Darwinism, but Dr. Dembski has chosen this title and we will respond to it.” more
Richard Dawkins would now rather be called an agnostic than an atheist?
| February 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Darwinism, News |
But do most agnostics want Dawkins speaking for them? Look what he was saying three years ago …
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Telic Thoughts: “Richard Dawkins is way better off with today’s zombies than with slaves”
| February 20, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Darwinism, News |
“… he said the reporter rang back and suggested Dawkins may have inherited a “slave supporting” gene …” more