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TED 2010: The Price in Human Suffering of Being Open-Minded
By Kim Zetter
February 11, 2010
A summary of Sam Harris’s talk at TED 2010
Belief in the Brain: Sacred and secular ideas engage identical areas
Religious belief may seem to be a unique psychological experience, but a growing body of research shows that thinking about religion is no different from thinking about secular things—at least from the standpoint of the brain. In the first imaging study to compare religious and nonreligious thoughts, evaluating the truth of either type of statement was found to involve the same regions of the brain.
Heaven and Nature
By ROSS DOUTHAT
December 21, 2009
Richard Dawkins has called pantheism “a sexed-up atheism.” (He means that as a compliment.) Sam Harris concluded his polemic “The End of Faith” by rhapsodizing about the mystical experiences available from immersion in “the roiling mystery of the world.”
Atheists need a different voice
By Stephen Prothero
12/07/09
We all know the names (Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens) of those angry white men who tend to antagonize the world’s believers. But the most persuasive voices for the ‘new New Atheism’ tend to be women.
The Anti-God Squad
BY ROBERT WRIGHT | DECEMBER 2009
Why even some of the most zealous non-believers may abandon the crusade against religion.
The Religious Wars
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
November 26, 2009
Just a few years ago, it seemed curious that an omniscient, omnipotent God wouldn’t smite tormentors like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris. They all published best-selling books excoriating religion and practically inviting lightning bolts.
Since the dawn of time
By
Dan Jones
Published 05 November 2009
Two hundred years after Darwin’s birth, scientists still can’t agree on whether evolution and religion can happily coexist
Two White Guys Walk Into a Bar …
By Lisa Miller
Published Oct 22, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Nov 2, 2009
For five years, since the publication of Sam Harris’s The End of Faith, the so-called faith-versus-reason debate has been a favorite pastime of certain secularists and intellectuals, the subject of innumerable books and lecture series…
Think Again: God
By Karen Armstrong
So-called new atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens have denounced religious belief as not only retrograde but evil; they regard themselves as the vanguard of a campaign to expunge it from human consciousness.
Atheist clubs are springing up in American high schools, warns head of US Catholic bishops
By Damian Thompson
October 7th, 2009
A “triumphalistic, self-righteous atheism” inspired by the work of Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris is winning a following among American young people, leading to “atheist clubs” in high schools, according to Cardinal Francis George of Chicago.
Fact Impact
By Lisa Miller | Newsweek Web Exclusive
New study of the brain shows that facts and beliefs are processed in exactly the same way.
Religion: The heart believes what it will, but the brain behaves the same either way
Religious believers may seem to share little with nonbelievers when it comes to thinking and judgment. But a new study by UCLA researchers finds that both Christians and nonbelievers use the same parts of the brain when asked to label articles of religious faith as true or false. A report summarizing the study is published today in PLoS ONE.
Out, Out, Damned Atheists
By Lisa Miller
The Case for God, which comes out this month, is Armstrong’s 19th book, and it rides the crest of a wave of books meant to dismantle the arguments of the atheists Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins.
The Myth Of A Moderate Malaysia
In America, the so-called new atheists—most prominently Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins—don’t need to think twice about ridiculing religious beliefs or savaging the most powerful priest or pastor. But in Malaysia, as elsewhere, secular liberals tend to tip-toe around Muslim religious sensibilities.
God in the Quad
By James Wood
August 31, 2009
In recent years, a resurgent evangelical Christianity has been contested by a resurgent atheism. For Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, among others, the God most worth fighting against seems to be a hybrid of a cheaply understood Old Testament, a prejudicially scanned Koran, and the sentimentalities of contemporary evangelicalism.
Fighting for Francis: Faith, reason, and the NIH nominee.
By Lisa Miller | NEWSWEEK
Published Jul 30, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Aug 17, 2009
In opinion pieces, scientists Sam Harris and Steven Pinker express strong reservations about the ascension of Collins to this office.
All quiet on the God front
By Simon Blackburn
Saturday 4 July 2009
Simon Blackburn discusses the argument that religious experience can’t be discussed
God and Science Don’t Mix
By LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS
Let’s Talk About God
By Lisa Miller
The atheist writers Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have presented us with a choice: either you don’t believe in God or you’re a dope.
How much reason do you want?
By Philip Ball
The ‘war’ between science and religion is stuck in a rut. Can we change the record now, asks Philip Ball?
Atheists: No God, no reason, just whining
By Charlotte Allen
May 17, 2009
Superstar atheists are motivated by anger—and boohoo victimhood.
[Harris’ Note: This is, without a doubt, one of the most embarrassingly stupid attacks on the “new atheists” to be published in a major newspaper.]
Light at the end of religion’s dark tunnel
By Andrew Sullivan
May 10, 2009
Faith is growing ever more extreme but a new book on the evolution of God gives Andrew Sullivan hope
Church-Shopping: Why Do Americans Change Faiths?
By Amy Sullivan
Apr. 28, 2009
Only Words: Liberalism, Past and Future
By George Scialabba
This article appeared in the May 11, 2009 edition of The Nation.
April 22, 2009
The End of Philosophy
By DAVID BROOKS
April 6, 2009
...It challenges the new atheists, who see themselves involved in a war of reason against faith and who have an unwarranted faith in the power of pure reason and in the purity of their own reasoning.
The Editor’s Desk
By Jon Meacham
From the magazine issue dated Apr 13, 2009
You are not your brain
By Gordy Slack
Mar. 25, 2009 |
We have become too reductive in understanding ourselves, argues philosopher Alva Noe. Our thoughts and desires are shaped by more than neurons firing inside our heads.
Honest to Jesus
Science and faith: the conflict
By Richard Gray
16 Mar 2009
The New Atheism, and Something More
By PETER STEINFELS
Published: February 13, 2009
If the label “new atheists” has been accorded to a fistful of polemicists who set out to counter in-your-face religion with in-your-face atheism, then Ronald Aronson must qualify as something different: a new new atheist perhaps.
Former Archbishop of Canterbury: atheists use 9/11 as excuse to attack all religions
By Martin Beckford, Religious Affairs Correspondent
Atheists have used the terrorist outrages of September 11 as an excuse to attack all religions, according to the former Archbishop of Canterbury.
Last Updated: 3:02PM GMT 12 Jan 2009
For Atheists, Politics Proves to Be a Lonely Endeavor
By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN
October 18, 2008
A Problem of Persuasion
Damon Linker
October 13, 2008
If Bill Maher and his fellow “new atheists” want to be effective, they need to stop preaching to the choir.
Asking the right God question
By Gregory Rodriguez
October 6, 2008
The debate between faith and atheism leaves too little room for figuring out why humans believe.
Blinded by a divine light
By Harry Kroto
Creationists such as the Rev Reiss don’t have the intellectual integrity to teach science
Sunday September 28 2008
What’s Your Blick? God or Science?
by Jacques Berlinerblau
Sunday, September 28, 2008
A Catholic philosopher attempts a dialogue with the New Atheists.
Sad Brain, Happy Brain
Michael Craig Miller, M.D.
Sep 13, 2008
What cognitive neuroscience is uncovering about the fascinating biology behind our most complex feelings. As it turns out, love really is blind.
Without God
By Steven Weinberg
McCain comes out punching
Jeremy Lott
Sunday August 17 2008
The Republican used the first presidential forum to try out his debate tactics against Obama: hit hard and fast
Après Lewis
By DAVID SKEEL
August 15, 2008; Page W9
Holiday in Hellmouth
by James Wood
June 9, 2008
God may be dead, but the question of why he permits suffering lives on.
Holy Restlessness
By Pico Iyer
Volume 55, Number 11 · June 26, 2008
Too Much Faith in Faith
By ALAN JACOBS
June 6, 2008
Don’t write off religion just yet
by JOHN GRAY
May 31, 2008
Perceiving 2 Fallacies, a Secularist Faults His Fellows
By PETER STEINFELS
May 24, 2008
If God Is Dead, Who Gets His House?
By Sean McManus
Apr 21, 2008
The fastest-growing faith in America is no faith at all. And now some atheists think they need a church.
For those touched most by 9/11, a turning point in faith
By Rick Hampson
NEW YORK — The pope’s pilgrimage to the site of the World Trade Center revives a question asked by many of those traumatized by the terrorist attacks, including the faithful, the faithless and those in between: Where was God on Sept. 11, 2001?
Novelist’s Crash Course on Terror
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
April 8, 2008
Finding the Voices of Moderate Islam
Jay Tolson
April 02, 2008
Adam’s Maxim and Spinoza’s Conjecture
By Michael Shermer
Belief, disbelief and uncertainty generate different neural pathways in the brain
