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The New Atheism and Evolutionary Religious Studies: Clarifying Their Relationship

David Sloan Wilson | Posted 05.17.2012

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David Sloan Wilson

What is the relationship between the New Atheism and Evolutionary Religious Studies? This question is surprisingly complex and needs to be answered in at least three steps.

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9/11 Gave Birth To Aggressive, Unapologetic 'New Atheists'

Posted 10.26.2011

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By Kimberly Winston Religion News Service (RNS) In September 2001, Sam Harris was an unknown doctoral student who didn't believe in God. But af...

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Is New Atheism A Religion?

Michael Ruse | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Ruse

Defining "religion" is notoriously difficult. Roman Catholicism is clearly a religion. But what about Quakerism? And if you include the Quakers, then what about the Rotarians and the Free Masons?

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What's So New About The New Atheism?

Paul Pardi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paul Pardi

The general consensus on the part of professional philosophers on all sides of the question is that the popular arguments being made by new atheists are not all that new.

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The Temptation of Faith Fibbing for Jesus

Karl Giberson, Ph.D | Posted 05.25.2011

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Karl Giberson, Ph.D

The rule that many Christians seem to follow when they lay their hands on their keyboards is "Ridicule your enemies; misrepresent those who hate you; caricature and malign those that mistreat you."

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When Doubt Is Sacred

Brad Hirschfield | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brad Hirschfield

While it may not be true that those without a faith need one, it is demonstrably true that people of faith must have questions and doubts. Otherwise their faith becomes a static, lifeless, self-serving doctrine.

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Can Science Explain Religion?

The New York Review of Books | H. Allen Orr | Posted 05.25.2011

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H. Allen Orr The New York Review of Books The Evolution of God by Robert Wright Little, Brown, 567 pp., $25.99 1. Robert Wright is not afr...

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Book Review: '36 Arguments for the Existence of God'

Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rabbi David Wolpe

"36 Arguments for the Existence of God" is an intriguingly structured work, tricky but also very traditional; a book that tries to make a serious argument but also tells a captivating story.

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