Rational Atheism

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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Michel Salim
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by Michel Salim - Oct. 1, 2008

Like the position taken by Krauss in his recent debate with Dawkins (SciAm, July 2007), Shermer argues that knee-jerk anti-religiousness does not do atheists any favour. Well-argued position that well-meaning people of rational persuasion, across the faith divide, would agree with.

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