Posted in atheism, politics, public religion on 23 January 2007 | 2 Comments »
There is a common caricature of Christian faith that sees it as inherently opposed to the idea of progress and that anything worthwhile and good in the world has been achieved in the teeth of opposition from the church. A good example of this is latest musing of British skeptic and philosopher A.C. Grayling. [...]
Posted in atheism, faith on 5 December 2006 | 3 Comments »
Some of Ryan’s comments from a recent conversation on a debate between Richard Dawkins and Francis Collins has made it to the ‘Letters‘ section of Time Magazine. Aside from a few crude editorial interventions I think this follows the script pretty closely. Ryan may have sent these in but I suspect that [...]
Posted in atheism, faith on 28 November 2006 | 7 Comments »
Here’s some follow-up reading on the resurgence of atheist literary output in recent months. The commentator is NY Times editorialist Richard Shweder and the title is ‘Atheists Agonistes‘ (’agonistes’ is a term that refers to ‘the struggler’ or ‘the combatant’), a thoughtful musing on the some potential root causes of the revival. Here [...]
Posted in atheism, faith on 15 November 2006 | 10 Comments »
Well Time Magazine has dove headfirst into a topic that always generates a lot of heat and (occasionally) a bit of light. “God vs. Science,” the latest cover story, takes the form of a debate between the atheist philosopher Richard Dawkins, author of the recent bestseller The God Delusion, and Francis Collins, director [...]
