new atheism

New atheism

There is a movement among people like Richard Dawkins called 'new atheism'. It is essentially defined by not just a rejection of religion, but the point of view that it is intrinsically evil and...

Is Reason Enough?

In our modern world, has reason rendered God, redundant? We have a completely new crop of Neo-Atheists who would tell us that he in fact is. The four horsemen of this new atheism, Richard...

Religulous Edges Expelled in Opening Weekend

With $3.5 million earned in its weekend box office debut, Bill Maher's Borat-inspired mockumentary about religion managed to just edge the opening weekend for Ben Stein's Expelled. Religulous,...

At the Washington Post, More on the Dawkins Problem

In the Post's Sunday Book Review, atheist and Georgetown professor Jacques Berlinerblau reviews Michael Novak's "No One Sees God: A Catholic Philosopher Attempts a Dialogue with the New...

Two Essays on Expelled, Dawkins, and PZ

Two essays I wrote on Expelled are now in print and I have placed PDFs of the articles online. The first shorter essay appears at Skeptical Inquirer magazine and reviews the impact of the film at the...

The Onion Pokes Fun at Science Bloggers & Commenters

"Behold the power and glory of the scientific method!," quotes The Onion in a satirical spoof of science enthusiasts flocking to a wall stain of the image of Darwin (above.) The parody plays on the...

Survey: God Disbelief Strongest on West Coast While an Atheistic Outlook Remains Stable Since 2000

In a recent survey, Gallup asked respondents whether they believed in God; believed in a universal spirit or higher power; or don't believe in either. Not surprisingly, "God disbelief" is highest...

Two Images of Atheism: Hate versus Community

The dominant image of atheism: Blogger PZ Myers wearing a scarlet letter "A" for atheism T-shirt. Atheists have a major image problem. There's a reason that when people ask me what I believe I...

On PZ, Don Imus Atheism, and "Atheistblogs.com"?

Myers with Richard Dawkins: Does his atheist punditry damage the scienceblogs.com brand?Call me agnostic on the controversy that has erupted over the Catholic wafer incident in Florida. On the...

Ben Stein's Trojan Horse: Tracking Expelled's Impact

My latest "Science and the Media" column at Skeptical Inquirer Online is now up. In the column I review the likely audience impact of Expelled and focus on the use of the film as part of a...

Francisco Ayala on the Confusing New Atheist Message

As I wrote yesterday, one of the emotional strategies employed in Expelled is to paint atheist pundits as the stand-ins for "big science," in the process selectively avoiding interviews with any of...

Does Advanced Science Education "Kill Off" Your Faith?

In Expelled, Richard Dawkins recounts how learning about science "killed off" his faith. And PZ Myers tells us that the more science literacy we have in society, the less religion we will have, and...