The Selfish Meme Strikes Back: New Atheism’s Failed Crusade
I am in the middle of going back through all of my blog posts over these past ten years and self-publishing various collections from all my work. Last month, I ...
Tag: The New Atheist Movement
“Faith vs. Fact” by Jerry Coyne: An Extended Book Analysis (Part 12)–Coyne’s Part in the Culture War
Welcome to Part 12 of my analysis of Jerry Coyne’s book, Faith vs. Fact, where I will discuss Coyne’s final chapter: “Why Does it Matter?” When it comes right d...
“Faith vs. Fact” by Jerry Coyne–An Extended Book Analysis (Part 11): How Coyne Misses Basic Historical Facts (and instead appeals to…the Jesus Mythicist Richard Carrier?)
Welcome to Part 11 of my analysis of Jerry Coyne’s book, Faith vs. Fact. I simply was not able to finish my comments on Coyne’s fourth chapter, “Faith Strikes B...
Richard Dawkins and “The God Delusion”: Dawkins on the Bible (Part 11)
NOTE: Ten years ago I did this book analysis on “The God Delusion” on my old blog. Then four years ago I revised it and put it up on this blog, resu...
Memes! Memes! I Feel God Deep Down in My Memes! (Part 15: The God Delusion)
In this post, I’m going to address what Richard Dawkins specifically says about what he calls “religious memes.” If you don’t know what ...
Richard Dawkins Hates Beauty! (Well, not quite, but he’s not convinced by the Argument from Beauty) (Part 10)
In the past two posts, we’ve looked at Richard Dawkins’ attempt to discredit the five “proofs” for God’s existence that medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas came ...
Richard Dawkins and Thomas Aquinas’ 4th and 5th Proofs for God’s Existence (Part 9)
Yesterday, we looked at how Richard Dawkins failed to understand Thomas Aquinas’ first three “proofs” for the existence of God. Instead of even attempting to un...
Richard Dawkins’ Failed Critique of Thomas Aquinas (Part 8)
“Proving” the existence of God in any rationalistic, scientific sense is going to be a futile endeavor. The reason why is, not because God doesn’t exist, but ra...
Richard Dawkins: “I’m a Scientist! I’m Qualified to Speak Authoritatively on Religion!” (Part 7)
Dawkins is Blinded by Science? Near the end of Dawkins’ second chapter in The God Delusion, he reveals what I believe to be a fundamental problem with his entir...
The B-I-B-L-E! That’s Not the Book For Christopher Hitchens!
It is now time to analyze Christopher Hitchens’ take on the Bible. It should come as no surprise to find that, although Hitchens’ main argument is “religion” (o...