Dawkins and Hitchens Hope to Arrest the Pope
Two of the most high profile ‘new atheists’ have retained a team of lawyers.
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Kung Fu Nuns, The Beatles, & Amish Healthcare: The Week In Religion… Poetically
A roundup of the latest from the world of religion.
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Video: How the Religion v. Science ‘Debate’ is Like Professional Wrestling
In this multimedia presentation, McCane and Mathewson reveal how the equally toothless performances of New Atheists like Richard Dawkins and creationists like Ken Ham share more with the garish world of Hulk Hogan and the Iron Sheik than with serious scholarship.
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Arrest the Pope: New Atheist Effort to Seek Justice in Sexual Abuse Crisis Should Be Applauded
In response to Richard Dawkins’ and Christopher Hitchens’ attempt to arrest the Pope for complicity in the sexual abuse crisis, Frances Kissling argues that the Church only responds to external pressure anyway. What does it matter where it comes from?
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Do Not Arrest the Pope: New Atheists’ Call for the Pope’s Arrest Isn’t Likely to Produce Justice
Coming from Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, this stunt is likely to provide support for those who believe that atheists and secularists are just out to destroy a church they believe to be evil.
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Rapping rationalism.
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Does Evolution Favor Religion?
David Sloan Wilson is a biologist who claims that the so-called “selfish” gene is a myth. What if we have evolved to do what’s best not for ourselves, but for the groups we live in? The implications for religion, the ultimate social organism, are huge.
Read MoreThe Theodicy of George Carlin
Carlin needed a God, wanted a God, but how could the Almighty be all-powerful if “everything he ever makes… dies”?
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On the “God-spot,” the psycho-phone, and mapping the mystical brain.
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Top Ten Religion & Science Stories of 2009
While fundamentalists continue to deny evolution and the validity of scientific thought, and some scientists continue to deny the validity of religion, the Year of Darwin held some notable examples of peaceful co-existence.
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