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Please Don't Tolerate Me, Reverend Senator Díaz

Johnathan Wilber | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Puerto Rico, Gang of Three, Family Values, New York State Senate, Christopher Lynn, New York Times, Christian Right, Richard Dawkins, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, New York, Sarah Palin, Reverend Ruben Diaz, Politics News

I guess I need one of these evangelists to explain the "it's nothing personal" thing to me. Because frankly I can't imagine a single thing more personal than denying my family rights.

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Practicing Science -- With or Without Religion?

Dan Agin | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Deism, Religion, Science, Atheism, Scientists, National Academy of Sciences, Francis Collins, Thomas Paine, Biology, Darwinism, Evolution, Richard Dawkins, Living News

The problem for the working scientist is that the essence of science is a self-conscious and mandatory objectivity -- which means dogma and doctrine are essentially antithetical.

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Just Listen (I Doubt It) Evolution Interrupted

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Los Angeles Times, Evolution, Mark Goulston, The Los Angeles Times, Susan Salter Reynolds, Richard Dawkins, Living News

I am not an evolution doubter. I believe it is real. I believe it has happened to bring us to where we are now. However, I also believe that it is on hiatus.

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Book Review Round-Up

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Joyce Carol Oates, Book Review, Book Reviews, Richard Dawkins, Dan Chaon, The Lost Symbol, R. Crumb, Books, The Good Soldiers, Dan Brown, Nobel Prize, Books News

A lot of the New York Times reviews were repeats this week, but, nonetheless, we bring you the weekend book review round-up. The Lost Symbol, Dan Bro...

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O'Reilly Debates Atheist Richard Dawkins, Calls His View Of How To Teach Science "Fascism" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Video, Evolution, Bill O'Reilly, Richard Dawkins, Bill O'reilly Video, Politics News

One might have expected fireworks when Fox News host Bill O'Reilly interviewed avowed atheist Richard Dawkins on his show the other night, but the two...

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Proof of God Never Stands Still

Deepak Chopra | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Thomas Merton, God, Richard Dawkins, Living News

Science has steadily eroded religion by saying, in essence, that there is no proof that satisfies experimental inquiry.

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How Richard Dawkins Communicates Evolution (Surprise, It's Not the Same Thing as Atheism)

Chris Mooney | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Richard Dawkins Atheism, Darwin, Atheism, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins Evolution, Evolution, Natural-Selection, Richard Dawkins Book, Richard Dawkins, Politics News

After writing a bestselling atheist "consciousness-raiser," is it at all surprising that Dawkins now finds his evolution book being prominently linked to atheism in the media mind?

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Are Evolution-Deniers any Different from Holocaust-Deniers, Birthers, or Truthers?

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Would Ben Stein hear out Ahmadinejad on the Holocaust the way Glenn Beck heard Stein out on his anti-evolution film? Fair and balanced, anyone?

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Lies, Damned Lies -- and the DoubleSpeak I Would Erase From the English Language

Johann Hari | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

The English language needs a spring cleaning to purge phrases that, while posing as neutral descriptions of the world, contain a hidden political agenda that then molds the assumptions of the listener.

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Not Enough Reality

David Horton | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion, Atheism, Richard Dawkins, Living News

I think Richard Dawkins could do the world an even greater service than he has already by funding places of atheist non-worship. I would call them Reality Domes, but he might have other ideas.

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Goddamn It, Ireland Outlaws Blasphemy

Theresa Darklady Reed | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Unnecessary Censorship, Ireland, Ireland's Blasphemy Laws, Richard Dawkins, Censorship, Free Speech, Politics News

According to the Irish government, it's not merely a good idea to crack down on offending the sensibilities of the religious, it's constitutionally required.

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The Trouble with the New Atheists: Part II

Robert Wright | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Atheism, Dan Dennett, Richard Dawkins, New Atheism Movement, Living News

Last week in this space I posted an attack on the "new atheists," I've weighed the counter-arguments that have been arrayed against me and--surprise!--found them wanting.

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Do Atheists Borrow Religion's Morality?

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 08.18.2009 | Living

Read More: New Atheists, Atheism, Duke Ellington, Nazis, Sam Harris, Ethics, Ts Eliot, Richard Rorty, Morality, Picasso, Richard Dawkins, Wh Auden, Vivaldi, Peter Singer, Living News

If you deprive people of the solace of a moral system of meaningful connection with something bigger than themselves, you aren't just stripping away window dressing, but demolishing the supporting structure of a happy life

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Why the "New Atheists" are Right-Wing on Foreign Policy

Robert Wright | Posted 08.13.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Religion, Suicide Bombers, Atheism, Islamic Radicalism, Terrorism, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, The Evolution of God, Religion and Politics, Atheists, Adolf Hitler, Robert Wright, Richard Dawkins, World News

It must strike progressive atheists as a stroke of bad luck that Christopher Hitchens, leading atheist spokesperson, happens to have hawkish views on foreign policy.

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The "New Atheist" Crusade and Me

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media

Read More: George Bush, Religulous, Bill Maher, Iraq, Richard Dawkins, New Atheism Movement, Media News

I agree with the New Atheists: it's time for religion to go. Intolerant, politicized, ugly, right-wing religion, that is. I agree with religious peopl...

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Maher vs. Obama -- Score One For the President

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Sojourners, Steven Colbert, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, President Obama, Politcs, Richard Dawkins, Evangelicals, Politics News

To ignore the open and questioning tradition and to dwell only on the fundamentalist thread is disingenuous, or in Maher's case more likely simply ignorant.

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A Holy World War, NBA-Style

Rob Asghar | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Religion, Atheists, Religion and Science, Atheism, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, World News

Yahweh's God Squad finds itself looking uphill in the Worldview Championship Series, facing its biggest deficit since the Pharaohs' dynasty. Scrappy underdog Team Atheism has bolted to a lead in the series.

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Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection XI: Dawkins Protests (Too Much)

David Sloan Wilson | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Evolutionary Models, Group Selection, Richard Dawkins, Politics, Science, Kin Selection, The Selfish Gene, Truth and Reconciliation, Evolution, Living News

Richard Dawkins did not invent naïve gene selectionism but he spread it far and wide with the publication of The Selfish Gene.

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No Religion? No Problem

Nica Lalli | Posted 05.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion, Atheism, Census, Richard Dawkins, God Bless America, Living News

Demographers are already salivating ahead of the upcoming U.S. Census, which will no doubt show just how different 2010 America is from 2000 America.

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Why the God Delusion Won't Go Away

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Skeptics, Religion, God, Richard Dawkins, Cults, Living News

What's the difference between extreme religious conviction and delusion? Between a religion and a cult?

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Not in Kansas

David Horton | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Evolution, Creationism, Richard Dawkins, Darwin, Oklahoma, Greg Lukianoff, Politics News

Why can't I be banned in Oklahoma? Look, I know I haven't actually been invited to give a talk there, but that's not the point. I've tried to get ban...

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Oklahoma Legislature Investigates Richard Dawkins' Free Speech

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Campus Liberty, Free Speech, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Legislature, Fire, Oklahoma University, Greg Lukianoff, Richard Dawkins, Politics News

Well, it's official: Oklahoma's state legislature is investigating the University of Oklahoma for hosting a speech by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.

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On Darwin's Birthday, Examining Why Evolution Is True

Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Evolution Intelligent Design, Dover Intelligent Design, Darwinism, Why Evolution Is True, Intelligent Design, Darwin, Evolution Debate, Charles Darwin, Jerry Coyne, Evolution, Darwin Day, Richard Dawkins, Michael Behe, Green News

According to biologist Jerry Coyne in his new book Why Evolution Is True, it's 40 percent of the population doesn't accept The Origin of Species.

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The Future of Secularism in American Politics

Bruce Ledewitz | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Atheism, Christopher Hitchens, Secularism, Religion and Politics, Science, Obama Christian, Richard Dawkins, New Atheism Movement, Politics News

The political implications of any movement away from the us-them divide between religion and secularism would be profound.

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Einstein, Atheism and One Big Bowl of Rice

Derek Beres | Posted 05.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Science, Rice, Agriculture, Evolutionary Biology, Richard Dawkins, Atheism, Albert Einstein, Einstein, Crop, Living News

People do not need God. I'd go a step further than Einstein's plea -- one echoing through the New Atheists, as they've been dubbed: not only is the idea too vast for our minds, it's an unnecessary hypothesis.

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