Evolving Thoughs, The evolution of morality: “Morality is an “acquired dialect”, which is a very useful metaphor. Like a dialect, it is conventional, and varies by geography. It is not inborn (although the capacity to acquire it, like that of language, is), and it doesn’t correlate with biology (a Sicilian raised in Japan would speak [...]
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The Four Horsemen
December 24th, 2007
The Four Horsemen – Hour 1 The Four Horsemen – Hour 2 RichardDawkins.net, The Four Horsemen: on Christmas: “All four authors have recently received a large amount of media attention for their writings against religion – some positive, and some negative. In this conversation the group trades stories of the public’s reaction to their recent [...]
Tags: atheism · christopher hitchens · daniel dennett · religion · richard dawkins · sam harris
What does a free society require of believers and non-believers alike?
December 4th, 2007
Timothy Garton Ash, What does a free society require of believers and non-believers alike?: “We do, however, need to be clearer about the difference between secularism and atheism. Secularism, in my view, should be an argument about arrangements for a shared public and social life; atheism is an argument about scientific truth, individual liberation and [...]
Tags: atheism · islam · religion · secularism
Steven Pinker and Rebecca Goldstein – Proud atheists
November 16th, 2007
Salon, Proud atheists: “Steven Pinker and Rebecca Goldstein, America’s brainiest couple, confess that belonging to one of America’s most reviled subcultures doesn’t mean they believe scientists can explain everything.”
Tags: atheism · language · rebecca goldstein · science · spinoza · steven pinker
Bill Moyers: Jonathan Miller
November 12th, 2007
Jonathan Miller geinterviewd door Bill Moyers Bill Moyers interviewt Jonathan Miller naar aanleiding van diens BBC-serie A Rough History of Disbelief uit 2005, binnenkort in de VS door PBS uit te zenden. De 3-delige serie is in fragmenten of integraal ook hier (wederom) te bekijken. Bijzonder de moeite waard.
Tags: atheism · bill moyers · joathan miller · religion · tv · video
Sir David Attenborough on God
November 10th, 2007
Sir David Attenborough on God
Tags: atheism · david attenborough · evolution · religion · video
Faith and politics. The new wars of religion
November 2nd, 2007
“Faith will unsettle politics everywhere this century; it will do so least when it is separated from the state” The Economist: Faith and politics. The new wars of religion: “Atheists and agnostics hate the fact, but these days religion is an inescapable part of politics.”