New Atheists
Dissecting a tendentious new-atheist attack on the Hebrew Bible.
When he learned just how much power the likes of Richard Dawkins had amassed, the writer Scott Shay decided to fight back.
And of scientism.
Leviticus’ universal commandment.
Fear of retribution vs. craving transcendence.
From the frontiers of religious freedom in Texas to the black holes of the final frontier.
Shifting definitions and circular arguments.
Nothing is more natural than belief in the supernatural.
And why is so much commentary on the subject so shallow?
The term “new atheism” generally refers to the claims, made prominent by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and others, that religion is both objectively false and. . .
There is more than meets the eye to Leo Strauss’s claim that philosophers, himself included, cannot be religious believers.
Scientists and philosophers of mind are tossing the human-centered worldview into the trash; it is incumbent on Judaism and Christianity to confront them.
An eminent primatologist has entered the debate between evolutionary biology and religion over the innateness of the moral sense—on the side of religion.