Aldous Huxley (1894—1963) was the grandson of Thomas Huxley, Darwin’s Bulldog,
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The debate between creation and evolution has a long history. The first public debate between a creationist and a Darwinist was probably the one where Samuel Wilberforce, bishop of Oxford, and Thomas H. Huxley, known as Darwin’s Bulldog
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Now that the shock of the Virginia Tech massacre has turned to scapegoat-hunting and finger-pointing, we can be sure that we will be offered numerous villains and causes over the next several weeks by the media.
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I like free books. So I was excited when I opened a package that contained a book that I had not ordered. Apparently, I’m on someone’s list of notables, because Alfred A. Knopf thought I should have a copy of Sam Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation.
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In order to complete our trilogy of homage to the New Atheists for their wholesale dismantling of postmodernism, we need to consider the philosophical Zen-master of materialism, Daniel C. Dennett.
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Sam Harris, the author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation, seems to have become the darling of the media. His articles pop up everywhere. His latest screed against religion carries the title “Atheists surely aren’t monsters.
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