Tag Archives: Richard Dawkins

Accommodationist of the Year!

by admin Posted on January 3, 2012

I’d like to thank the Academy. Jerry Coyne has just awarded me the Mooney Prize for “Accommodationist of the Year” and pays a lot of attention to why, he says, no one is paying attention to me. He defends his fellow … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Greta Christina, Jason Rosenhouse, Jerry Coyne, new atheists, Ophelia Benson, p z myers, R. Joseph Hoffmann, Richard Dawkins, zombies | 3 Comments

Re-Made in America: Remembering the New Atheism (2006-2011)

by admin Posted on January 1, 2012

UPDATE: Apologies are due to Greta Christina who was in fact ranked by an atheist website as one of the top ten popular atheist bloggers. rjh Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Eric MacDonald, Jason Rosenhouse, Jerry Coyne, Mark Tawin, new atheism, p z myers, R. Joseph Hoffmann, Richard Dawkins, scientism | 19 Comments

The Big Idea

by admin Posted on December 7, 2011

hristopher Hitchens is, of all the atheists I admire, the one I admire the most. I want him to live forever. But as that is impossible–for any of us–it’s his voice I will miss the most. He is a journalist, a polemicist, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged agnostic, Alvin Plantinga, atheism, Atheism's Little Idea, Catholicism, Christopher Hitchens, common sense, Eric MacDonald, god, J L Mackie, Jacques Berlinerblau, Jason Rosenhaus, Jason Rosenhouse, Jason Rubenhuis, New oxonian, philosophy of religion, R. Jozseph Hoffmann, religion, Richard Dawkins, scholasticism | 5 Comments

The Sure-Fire Atheist Rapid Response Manual

by admin Posted on December 1, 2011

When I wrote Atheism’s Little Idea I said atheists were small. But (and this is embarrassing to confess) I had no idea how clever. There’s a species of ant in Papua New Guinea that is so small you need a magnifying glass … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged american atheists, american humanist association, atheism, christianity, chronicle of higher education, new atheism, New oxonian, p z myers, pharyngula, R. Joseph Hoffmann, religion, Richard Dawkins, truth in dying, why evolution is true | 13 Comments

On Not Quite Believing in God

by admin Posted on November 17, 2011

A New Oxonian pebble from 2010 We seem to be witnessing the rapid development of atheist orthodoxy. I say that as someone who has fallen prey to zingers used about the heretics in the fourth century Empire: According to my disgruntled … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged agnosticism, atheism, Humanism, new atheists, R. Joseph Hoffmann, Richard Dawkins, secular humanism, secularism | 6 Comments

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