This is just lame. Atheist parents in Palo Alto have set up an atheist Sunday school: The Palo Alto Sunday family program uses music, art and discussion to encourage personal expression, intellectual curiosity and collaboration. One Sunday this fall found...
Posted on December 4, 2007 3:42 PM • 9 Comments •
Writing in the City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple criticizes the equivalence of religion with the immoral and atheism with the moral: Lying not far beneath the surface of all the neo-atheist books is the kind of historiography that many of us...
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Posted on October 29, 2007 1:45 PM • 9 Comments •
Last week, I posted a long argument for why I believe pairing science and atheism is a poor strategic choice for scientists. The response to that article has I think been largely positive, but I do want to address the...
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Posted on September 17, 2007 10:21 AM • 29 Comments •
In 1922, John Dewey, pragmatist philosopher and champion of Progressive education, wrote an article in The New Republic entitled "The American Intellectual Frontier." The subject was William Jennings Bryan's attack on evolution that would later culminate in the Scopes...
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Posted on September 12, 2007 3:34 PM • 69 Comments •
Matt Nisbet at Framing Science cites an article by DJ Grothe and Austin Dacey arguing the negative: Women, people of color, and GLBTs have consistently faced discrimination that substantially diminishes their basic life prospects-access to housing, health care, education, political...
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Posted on June 29, 2007 10:36 AM • 23 Comments •
Daniel Lazare, writing in the Nation, has an interesting article about differences of opinion even among atheists: This is the problem, more or less, confronting today's reinvigorated atheist movement. For a long time, religion had been doing quite nicely as...
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Posted on May 21, 2007 11:19 AM • 5 Comments •
Dinesh D'Souza, writing in the Christian Science Monitor, defends organized religion from criticism that links it with violence and wars: - In recent months, a spate of atheist books have argued that religion represents, as "End of Faith" author Sam...
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Posted on November 22, 2006 11:58 AM • 11 Comments •