Richard Dawkins

Atheist Dawkins Supports Free Bibles In Schools

The Huffington Post | Samreen Hooda | Posted 05.24.2012

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He is a famed atheist, a disbeliever in the existence of an Almighty, and now an outspoken supporter of bringing Bibles back to state schools in Engla...

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The New Atheism and Evolutionary Religious Studies: Clarifying Their Relationship

David Sloan Wilson | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Evolutionary Religious Studies, Daniel Dennett, Atheism, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, New Atheism, Religion News
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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WATCH: PBS Amplifies HuffPost Probe of Military Atheists

David Tereshchuk | Posted 04.23.2012

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David Tereshchuk

The weekend saw a rare TV report airing complaints that atheists serving in the military claim about official discrimination against them. It was carried in the perhaps unlikely setting of PBS's "Religion and Ethics Newsweekly," often considered to be a media venue for believers.

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Military Atheists -- Under-Reported Fight for Fairness

David Tereshchuk | Posted 04.19.2012

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David Tereshchuk

The freedom to practice any faith -- a freedom that of course embraces the holding of no faith at all: atheism, in other words -- has freshly become a pressing issue in, of all intriguing places, the United States military.

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What Is the Best Way to Deal With Supernaturalists in Science and Evolution?

James A. Shapiro | Posted 04.16.2012

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James A. Shapiro

One of the Creationists' main tools is the argument that evolutionists are simply militant atheists in drag, who care more about dissing religion than about understanding evolution. Pro-evolution debaters will enjoy far more success by active engagement with evolution doubters.

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Don't Leave God To Religion

Wendi L. Adamek | Posted 04.11.2012

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Wendi L. Adamek

If we really want to understand our world and ourselves we need to move on. Science, spirituality, common sense and philosophy need to work together and not against one another.

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Selfless Genes: A New Revolution in Biology

Jonathan Gottschall | Posted 04.02.2012

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Jonathan Gottschall

Darwin and E.O. Wilson agree: no matter the species, if you have intense and sustained group-level conflict, selfless genes beat selfish genes; they beat them bloody; they beat them every single time.

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Largest-Ever Gathering Of Atheists Set To Rally On National Mall

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 03.24.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The atheists are coming! So are the non-atheists. Saturday's "Reason Rally," billed as the "largest gathering of the secular movement...

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"Speciesism: The Movie" May Change Your Worldview

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 05.21.2012

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Bruce Friedrich

Not only does Speciesism: The Movie ask these life-changing questions, but it does so while taking viewers on an adventure that is tremendously entertaining and often laugh-out-loud funny.

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The Sad, Silly Idea Of 'Religion for Atheists'

Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie | Posted 05.13.2012

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Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie

When God and belief are stripped out of the equation, we are left with rituals and practices that are primarily hedonistic and hollow. What de Botton offers us is "religion for atheists," but what he gives us is pseudo-religion and empty routine.

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Opening Ourselves By Opening The Science-Religion Debate

Paul Wallace | Posted 05.06.2012

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Paul Wallace

Facing the radical insufficiency of even our best ideas about God, even for a moment, may help us see the static and fruitless opposition that characterizes much of the science-religion debate.

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Why The Reason Rally Isn't Worth Coming Out For

Nathalie Rothschild | Posted 05.05.2012

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Nathalie Rothschild

Supporters of the Reason Rally say they want to promote secular values, but in asserting that they are beleaguered and ought to forge a sense of togetherness based on that, they reveal that their true roots lie in therapy culture and in its relative - identity politics.

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Why The Universe Obviously Has A Creator (and Why Some Atheists Refuse To Even Consider It)

Rabbi Alan Lurie | Posted 05.05.2012

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Rabbi Alan Lurie

To make the scientific claim that one will "go where the evidence leads," while not even considering the obvious possibility of a deliberate Creator, is to be intellectually dishonest at best.

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Richard Dawkins' Concession Not Quite Revelatory

Vlad Chituc | Posted 04.30.2012

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Vlad Chituc

Prominent atheists such as Dawkins are understandably sources of controversy. But he doesn't deserve to be a needless target for manufactured controversy.

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Meme Wars and the Death of the Underground

Rajiv Naresh | Posted 04.17.2012

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Rajiv Naresh

We must consolidate a singular identity. With 845 million users worldwide, Facebook has decided on behalf of the cyber universe that everything MUST be social. And the tyranny of a compulsorily social world is that it negates the possibility of the underground and the alternative.

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Religious Self-Definition A Major Issue In Dawkins's Poor Debate Performance

Christopher Lane | Posted 04.17.2012

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Christopher Lane

The performance in question has Dawkins stumbling, uncharacteristically, when pressed to give the full title to Darwin's major treatise "On the Origin of Species." Dawkins declared that he'd been "ambushed" by the question.

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Atheist Turns To God To Answer Question On Evolution

Posted 02.16.2012

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In his book "The God Delusion," leading atheist Richard Dawkins famously argued that belief in a supernatural creator is irrational and that believing...

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SLIDESHOW: Scientists On God

The Huffington Post | Tavish Nanda | Posted 02.11.2012

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Figuring God into the world of science is a nebulous task. What happens when observers of the fact-based natural world must come to terms with the fai...

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Finding Health in the Theme of Memes

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 04.07.2012

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David Katz, M.D.

Unlike genes, over which we do not have true mastery and are unlikely to any time soon, memes are of our own devising. We have the means to make them do what we want.

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Two Ways Of Thinking About Agnosticism: Hitchens vs. Dawkins

Christopher Lane | Posted 04.01.2012

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Christopher Lane

That Hitchens took a glass-half-full approach to agnostics is notable because it's sharply at odds with the line of his compatriot, Richard Dawkins, whose thoughts on agnostics are almost uniformly negative.

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A View From Inside The Jaipur Literature Festival

Monisha Rajesh | Posted 03.26.2012

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Monisha Rajesh

Bigotry. Intolerance. Censorship. Not words that you would normally associate with a literature festival. Yet, over the last six days at the Jaipur Literature Festival, they've dominated panel discussions, been whispered during readings, and littered furious debates around tea stalls.

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'Woody Allen Of Cosmology' Explains Origin Of Universe

AP | By ANN LEVIN | Posted 01.09.2012

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-- "A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing" (Free Press), by Lawrence M. Krauss: In fall 2009, the theoretical physicist...

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The 10 Most Absurd Things Said About Women In 2011

Posted 12.28.2011

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Mallory Ortberg | Eco Salon This post originally appeared on EcoSalon. With beliefs like these floating around, we have to remind ourselves th...

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Defying Our Maker: What The New Atheists Miss

Ted Cadsby | Posted 02.15.2012

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Ted Cadsby

Of all the arguments employed to challenge the usefulness of religion, one is largely overlooked: the way religion feeds our tribal instinct.

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The Origins Of Christmas

Jeffrey Small | Posted 02.14.2012

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Jeffrey Small

What is more important to me than the mechanics of Jesus' birth is that he was an historical figure who came to be viewed as "the Christ," the Messiah.

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