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Dawkins the New Cultural Christian

What Richard Dawkins seems not to have realized — or perhaps now is realizing too late — is that scientific materialism is the suicide of reason. Read More ›
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Farewell to Daniel Dennett

Dennett noted that Paul Nelson and I were in the audience and would be speaking at Tufts that evening on intelligent design. Read More ›
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Dawkins, Dennett, and the Taste for Iconoclasm

I’ve had two memorable encounters with Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, one with Dennett alone, the other with both together. Read More ›
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Cosmic Fine-Tuning as Evidence for the Reality of Consciousness

Many neuroscientists hold the materialist view that the mind is a user illusion generated by the brain. Read More ›
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Shelley, Darwin, and the 19th-Century God Debate

The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley threw down the gauntlet for what was effectively to become the great Victorian dispute about religious faith. Read More ›
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Atheism’s Four Horsemen — Where Are They Now?

"For example, I look at Pharyngula, which during its heyday was the biggest atheist blog on the Internet." Read More ›
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Richard Dawkins and the Law of Unintended Consequences

The New Atheists’ failure to understand the nuanced way that “ordinary people” think was a profound strategic error. Read More ›
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Alfred Russel Wallace’s Greatest Journey

Alfred Russel Wallace took a journey Darwin could not follow. He went from natural selection to natural theology. Read More ›
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Science Sunday: Is Scientific Materialism the Best Framework for Understanding Reality?

The voices of pop science teach us and our children that "everything, if Darwin is right, is mechanical and blind and purposeless at the bottom." Read More ›
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Eccentric Theories of Consciousness Are Tolerated; But Why?

The strangest imaginable theory, quantum mechanics, has turned out to be the most experimentally reliable. Read More ›

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