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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
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/28/religion
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
The atheist delusion
John Gray
Saturday March 15, 2008
‘Opposition to religion occupies the high ground, intellectually and morally,’ wrote Martin Amis recently. Over the past few years, leading writers and thinkers have published bestselling tracts against God. John Gray on why the ‘secular fundamentalists’ have got it all wrong
Why I Write These Columns
By Stanley Fish
March 9th, 2008
Amis and Islam
By RACHEL DONADIO
March 9, 2008
In Defense of God
by Lori Smith
3/3/2008
Atheist bestsellers have spurred on protectors of the faith.
A Neurology of Belief
By Oliver Sacks and Joy Hirsch
Are you going to hell?
By Louis Bayard
Former born-again Christian John Marks journeyed back into the evangelical America he’d left behind and discovered the promise—and limitations—of faith.
On Religion: A Pragmatist and a Lobbyist on Atheism
By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN
February 23, 2008
As represented in print by best-selling authors like Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins, atheism has lately mounted an in-your-face attack not simply on religion’s influence on public policy, but on belief itself.
Prime Roller, Prepare to Meet a Wiseacre
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
January 22, 2008
Sam Harris’s 2004 book, “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason,” set off a noisy boomlet of antireligion books, including Richard Dawkins’s provocative if preachy tome, “The God Delusion” (2006), and Christopher Hitchens’s furious (and often very funny) jeremiad, “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything” (2007). These books provided a vehement response to the growing influence of evangelicals in American politics and the raging fires of fundamentalism around the world, and they even led to talk about the stirrings of a “new atheist” movement.
My Nose, My Brain, My Faith
By DAVID VAN BIEMA
Jan. 10, 2008
Believing or disbelieving something is always as much about feeling as fact. Sam Harris, a doctoral candidate at UCLA, wanted to see what that means in physiological terms…
Ian McEwan: The TNR Q&A
Isaac Chotiner
January 11, 2008
‘Atonement’ author Ian McEwan on Bellow, the Internet, atheism, and why his books are still scary.
Moderates Storm The Religious Battlefield
By Lisa Miller
Dec. 31, 2007 - Jan. 7, 2008 issue
More-modest voices are reclaiming the debate over faith from the bomb throwers.
Dallas ISD student picked to participate in forum with world leaders
By COURTNEY FLATT
December 29, 2007
Two authors, a rabbi and an atheist, debate religion and science
By Steve Padilla
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 29, 2007
Religion and science take center stage in a forum analyzing the role of faith in public and private life.
Man and God
How should faith respond to the onslaught of atheism?
Top Ten Stories of 2007
2. Atheism tops the bestseller charts
Something to believe in
Adam Rutherford
What Your Brain Looks Like on Faith
By David Van Biema
Friday, Dec. 14, 2007
Sam Harris is best known for his barn-burning 2004 attack on religion, The End of Faith, which spent 33 weeks on the New York Times best-seller List. The book’s sequel, Letter to a Christian Nation also came out in editions totalling hundreds of thousands. Last Monday, however, the combative Californian produced a shorter (seven pages) and seemingly calmer publication that will be a hit if it reaches 10,000 readers: “Functional Neuroimaging of Belief, Disbelief and Uncertainty.”
