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Some good news: the online 'debate' between Dawkins and the religion editors of the Times can be read for free. It's a terrible format: it's just a chat window with people throwing questions at Dawkins, which he deftly slices out of the air with a sa...
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Tell me again why so many religious people think they stand upon some “moral high ground” because of their faith…?
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THERE is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe, Professor Stephen Hawking has said.
According to BBC today, Hawking had previously argued belief in a creator was not incompatible with science, but in a new book, he concludes th...
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From the Guardian:
Is physicist Stephen Hawking right that physics, not God, created the universe?
81.3% Yes. I believe in gravity, not divinity
18.7% No. God: Hawking 'not necessary'
Somebody show me the units of divinity, please, as well as a fe...
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God did not create the universe and the “Big Bang” was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.
In “The Grand Design,” co-authored wi...
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Interviews with the “non-crackpots”:
Our doorstep is dirty. Clearly.
And you gotta love the nutjobs defending that Obama is a racist. Sheesh.
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(Photo: Thilo Sarrazin at presentation of his book in Berlin, August 30, 2010/Fabrizio Bensch)
German central banker Thilo Sarrazin has divided public opinion with remarks about Muslim immigrants and comments about the genetic make-up of Jews, promp...
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Laplace, Hawking, same difference. In a completely unsurprising move, Stephen Hawking has made it clear that we have no need for the god hypothesis.
Modern physics leaves no place for God in the creation of the Universe, Stephen Hawking has conclude...
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Yesterday, I received an e-mail from someone who works at a state agency in the Bible Belt. The head of the agency often uses working lunches and meetings to conduct a short prayer session. According to the e-mail, this happens often and most people ...
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I can’t tell if the driver is an oblivious Christian or a clever atheist… but I love the juxtaposition
(Photo courtesy of reader Lorelei, who spotted the car in Lihue, Kauai in Hawaii.)
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Religion and superstition make people feel good… so why are we atheists and skeptics so set on ruining those things for everyone, even if we’re right?
Greta Christina has a fantastic response to that question.
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(Photo: Men gather near dead bodies after bomb attack on Shi’tes in Lahore, September 1, 2010/Mohsin Raza)
Suspected Islamist militants exploded three bombs at a Shi’ite procession in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday, killing ...
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The ethical theory I currently defend is desirism. But I mostly write about moraltheory, so I rarely discuss the implications of desirism for everyday moral questions about global warming, free speech, politics, and so on. Today’s guest post appl...
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Robert Price, from his introduction to The Empty Tomb:
We do not hate the Bible… We do not seek to debunk it, for it is not bunk, any more than the Iliad or Beowulf is bunk…
When we attack the arguments of apologists, we believe ourselves...
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