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Doubling Down: Dawkins Now on “Team Christianity”

Over the weekend at the Dissident Dialogues gathering in New York, he participated in a dialogue with former New Atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Read More ›
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Dawkins
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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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Watchdog Group Calls Professor Dave “Anti-Semite of the Week”; Plus an Appeal to the New Atheists

Does this have anything to do with intelligent design and the evolution debate? Yes, two things. Read More ›
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Professor Dave, Anti-Semite? You Be the Judge

What was unclear was whether his rage against intelligent design reflected just an isolated problem in his thinking, or whether it’s something more system-wide. Read More ›
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After Weaponizing Evolution, New Atheists Are Unhappy with Results

Richard Dawkins says he finds it “depressing” that people now think he’s “right-wing,” even a “right-wing extremist,” because he’s anti-woke. Read More ›
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Understanding Design Arguments: An Introduction for Catholics

What ID denies is that every feature of nature is the product of natural forces all the way down. This commitment is necessarily shared by Catholics. Read More ›
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Keating, Krauss, Tour: Three Jewish Scientists with Remarkably Different Perspectives

Here is a fascinating and very different pair of scientific, religious, and philosophical conversations, both with UC San Diego physicist Brian Keating. Read More ›
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Darwin and the Loss of the Enlightenment Paradigm

As a plethora of books, articles, and TV programs have recently intoned, our almost complete ignorance of the nature of ultimate reality has been laid bare. Read More ›
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Erasmus Darwin and Credible Denial

Consideration of Erasmus Darwin’s writings suggests that his unbelief could well have been father to the thought in the matter of his evolutionary speculations. Read More ›
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Dawkins
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Darwin and the “New Atheists” 

There is surely some historical irony in the attempt to enlist Charles Darwin posthumously in defense of the atheist cause. Read More ›

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