Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
This is the image that faitheists, accommodationists, and believers have when it comes to Our Own Satan. It was produced by Ben Goren, who calls it “Richard Dawkins, Militant Atheist,” who sent it with the note: The opening sentence of that execrable bit of nonsense by Nury Vittachi that you’ve got as the top post right … Continue reading A militant atheist
Chris Stedman is the assistant humanist chaplain at Harvard University, and author of the accommodationist book Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious (perhaps its title was stolen from this website!). Here’s a discussion he had with the odious Bill O’Reilly on December 6: According to Stedman, the #1 problem of atheists is that … Continue reading Bill O’Reilly and Chris Stedman ally against The War on Christmas
Today’s New York Times reports that the creationist organization Answers in Genesis has paid for and installed an anti-atheist billboard in Times Square: Wedged amid an advertisement urging revelers to take a trip to Atlantic City, promotions for the new CBS drama “Hostages” and a promotion from Google was a 15-second video directed at New … Continue reading Believers strike back: an anti-atheist billboard in Times Square
I’ve exchanged a few emails with reader Matthew, who has his own website called Confessions of a (former) young earth creationist. He originally sent me pictures of himself with monkeys from his childhood in Africa (this was prompted by yesterday’s girl-with-baby-gorilla post), but also mentioned something about being the son of missionaries and how he gave … Continue reading Leaving faith behind: a reader’s story
I consider Adam Gopnik a friend, as we have occasional email exchanges about the things that matter (e.g., food, atheism, and “other ways of knowing”), and I’ve taken him to my favorite Hunanese restaurant in Chicago. And of course I admire his writing: his book Paris to the Moon, for instance, is a witty and … Continue reading Adam Gopnik on atheism in the New Yorker
I’ll put up two posts today about the atheism of scientists. The first—this one—is old news, but I’ve separated it from one I’ll put up a bit later, which is a new survey of atheism among scientists in the UK. It’s been known for a long time that American scientists are far more likely to … Continue reading Atheism among Anglophone scientists. I. The U.S.
Pope Francis’s conciliatory words to atheists last week, implying that both Catholics and nonbelievers (if they’re good) will “meet one another there”—presumably “there” being heaven—were unusual for a pontiff, though I doubt they got many of us excited that we’re actually headed for the Elysian Fields. But, according to CNN News, some humanists really thought … Continue reading Vatican to atheists: you’re still going to hell
Thursday’s New York Times op-ed section posed a curious question to five people: “Should atheists pray?” The question: With atheist church services this month in Louisiana and New York, nonbelievers are borrowing some of the rituals of believers: gathering, singing, sermons. Would it be fruitful for atheists to pray? For believers and others, what is … Continue reading Should atheists pray? A debate in the New York Times
