Rational Atheism

Scientific American by Michael Shermer | Sep. 2, 2007 (Opinion)
An open letter to Messrs. Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens

Since the turn of the millennium, a new militancy has arisen among religious skeptics in response to three threats to science and freedom: (1) attacks against evolution education and stem cell research; (2) breaks in the barrier separating church and state leading to political preferences for some faiths over others; and (3) fundamentalist terrorism here and abroad. Full Story »

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Fran Meaney
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 by Fran Meaney - Oct. 1, 2008

Challenging the erudite and all-knowing is courageous. The writer makes his points gently so as not to offend the all-knowing. Why are they so insistent in denying the unknowable -- from whence the world came? Fear? Anxious that man be pre-eminent or fear that he is nothing? When in fact a human is said -- believed -- to be important because made in God's image. Man as worm or exalted graduate to the presence of the God of Love?

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