Nouvelle Atheism

Image via WikipediaCaspar Melville followed up his poorly argued piece on new atheism with a report on the debate that took place between Marilynne Robinson, Roger Scruton and Jonathan Rée, with Laurie Taylor chairing. I'm reproducing here the comment I made on RD.NET. What a waste of an evening that sounds. Accommodationists sitting round...

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Press Ganged Up

The visit of a dictatorial absolute monarch telling the plucky Brits how to behave would normally, you would think, bring howls of outrage from the famed 'free' press of the United Kingdom and its politicians. But they, and the television media, have been falling over themselves to fawn sycophantically over one of the most harmful men alive...

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Philosophy is Dead; Long Live Philosophy?

Image by nasa hq photo via Flickr Stephen Hawking writes in his new book, The Grand Design: Where did all this come from? Did the Universe need a creator?...Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics. Scientists have become...

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