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Wired
January 2007 |
Rants + Raves Responses to the editor on the November article on New Atheism... Why Mathematics should have gotten the coolest science award... Various forms of prosopagnosia... A big stick as a supercool movie weapon... etc.   |
Psychology Today
Jan/Feb 2008
Bruce Grierson |
An Atheist in the Pulpit Public identity and private belief are never more at odds than when a preacher loses his faith. |
Salon.com
July 7, 2000
Jake Tapper |
God is their copilot Both born-again, Bush and Gore have made this the most God-fearing presidential race in 100 years. But their faiths have led these men in two completely different directions. |
Reason
January 2005
Chris Lehmann |
Among the Non-Believers The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, by Sam Harris derides the callow apocalyptic temper of the monotheistic traditions, while effectively seeking to bully readers into accepting nuclear Armageddon as a justified response to rampant fundamentalism. |
Scientific American
September 2007
Michael Shermer |
Rational Atheism An open letter to Messrs. Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens. |
Geotimes
September 2005
Lee J. Suttner |
Believing vs. Knowing: Faith's Role in the Evolution Debate Belief in evolution does not preclude belief in God. But belief is the key word. Fully understanding the concept of belief is fundamental to arguments for keeping creationism and its clever smokescreen, intelligent design, out of the science classrooms of all of our schools, not just the public ones. |
Salon.com
February 1, 2001
Michael Joseph Gross |
Hard-wired for God? A Christian takes issue with a book claiming that religion is merely a trick of evolution... |
Reason
December 2007
Greg Beato |
Say You Love Santa Pop culture's war on secularists: Christians and heretics alike may decry the commercialization of the holidays, but when gift exchanges confer grace, and delicious turkey dinners are the gateway to piety, it's easy to have faith. |
Wired
December 2002
Gregg Easterbrook |
The New Convergence After centuries of battle, scientists and theologians are finally forging a grand unified theory. As the era of biotechnology dawns, scientists realize they're stepping into territory best navigated with the aid of philosophers and theologians. |
Reason
May 2003
Jesse Walker |
Inside the Spiritual Jacuzzi What JewBus, Unitarian Pagans, and the Hot Tub Mystery Religion tell us about traditional faiths |
Scientific American
September 12, 2005
John Horgan |
Clash in Cambridge Science and religion seem as antagonistic as ever at the Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship conference. |
Wired
December 2000
Jaron Lanier |
One-Half of a Manifesto Why stupid software will save the future from neo-Darwinian machines... |
Salon.com
September 6, 2002
Susan McCarthy |
Classroom karaoke If California schools keep the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, there will be kids like I was, who will remain silent, move their lips and hope that patriotic peers don't catch them. |
Scientific American
October 2008
Sally Lehrman |
The Christian Man's Evolution: How Darwinism and Faith Can Coexist A geneticist ordained as a Dominican priest, Francisco J. Ayala sees no conflict between Darwinism and faith. Convincing most of the American public of that remains the challenge. |
Salon.com
August 29, 2000
Gary Kamiya |
Holy Joe Lieberman's God-fearing sermon was a cute political move -- and a debasement of both religion and civil society. |
Reason
March 2008
Cathy Young |
A Secular Fantasy The flawed but fascinating fiction of Philip Pullman. |
Scientific American
January 2006
George Johnson |
Getting a Rational Grip on Religion Daniel C. Dennett hopes that his book Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon will end the conviction that details based in religion are off-limits to scientific inquiry. |
Scientific American
October 2006
George Johnson |
Scientists on Religion Theists and materialists ponder the place of humanity in the universe in four books: God's Universe by O. Gingerich, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by F.S. Collins, The God Delusion by R. Dawkins, and Varieties of Scientific Experience by C. Sagan. |
Salon.com
December 21, 2001
Carolyn S. Briggs |
Seeing the light A former Christian fundamentalist recalls a life of ferocious, intractable faith -- and the moments it began to crumble. |
Salon.com
November 20, 2000
Amy Standen |
Faith in America What does religion mean now? Is it a mystical experience, a collection of social protocols or just common sense? |
Reason
May 2006
Ronald Bailey |
Separate But Equal? Can science tell us anything about religion? |
Scientific American
September 2009
Lawrence M. Krauss |
An Update on C. P. Snow's "Two Cultures" Earlier this summer marked the 50th anniversary of C. P. Snow's famous "Two Cultures" essay, in which he lamented the great cultural divide that separates two great areas of human intellectual activity, "science" and "the arts." |
Reason
October 2004
Cathy Young |
Beyond Belief The idea that U.S. politicians should keep their religious faith private may seem outrageously intolerant. But is it not equally outrageous that a secularist figure cannot express his views honestly without committing career suicide? |
Wired
November 6, 2006
Geoffrey Gagnon |
Faces of the New Atheism: The Illusionists Penn & Teller got famous catching bullets in their teeth, eating fire, and making rabbits vanish. But now they're trying something even more ambitious: They want to make religion disappear. |
Reason
May 2003
Ronald Bailey |
Pulling Our Own Strings Philosopher Daniel Dennett on determinism, human "choice machines," and how evolution generates free will |
Reason
February 2004
Tim Cavanaugh |
In God's Country Thanks be to the American Atheist |
Reason
October 2002
Cathy Young |
One Nation, Many Gods Vouchers, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the separation of church and state |
Wired
December 2003 |
Rants & Raves October's "Superproducers" package raised the roof, but it was an essay in View that really got the Wired faithful to sound off. "Religion Be Damned," by evolutionary fundamentalist Richard Dawkins, had atheists singing the biologist's praises. |
Reason
December 2004 |
Love and Memory and Humanity Magician and novelist Penn Jillette on U.S. censorship, sock monkeys, and the cable TV show Bullshit! |
Scientific American
October 2006 |
Let There Be Light Science and faith can coexist happily as long as neither tries to take on the functions of the other. |
Wired
November 2006
Steve Olson |
Faces of the New Atheism: The Punk Rocker Punk rocker and zoologist Greg Graffin is offended by what he sees as the intellectual dishonesty of scientists who find compatibility with religions that, in the case of Christianity at least, embrace walking on water and resurrection. |
Salon.com
September 14, 2001
Joan Walsh |
Too much God? When the Rev. Jerry Falwell blamed the ACLU and other liberals for Tuesday's attack, he proved he's America's answer to the Taliban. But that doesn't mean there's no place for God in our expressions of national mourning... |
Scientific American
October 2006
Michael Shermer |
Darwin on the Right Why Christians and conservatives should accept evolution |
Reason
January 2001
Cathy Young |
God Talk The First Amendment vs. freedom of speech... |
Science News
January 31, 2009
Tom Siegfried |
Darwin's Natural Selection Redefined The Idea Of Design Charles Darwin is not around today to explain his views to critics who decry evolution on religious grounds. But among his voluminous writings are occasional passages that indicate how he might have answered if questions were posed to him today. |
Salon.com
August 16, 2000
James Traub |
Closing the piety gap With Joe Lieberman, the Democrats have someone who can take God back from the right. But do we really need more moralizing about private issues in public life? |
Inc.
December 2006
Alan Wolfe |
Guest Speaker: Worshiping at Work - Religion - Adam Smith Bringing religion into your company can be a test of faith - but not in the way you might expect. |
Reason
June 2007
W. James Antle |
Evangelicals and the State In The Choice Principle: The Biblical Case for Legal Toleration, by Andy G. Olree, a law professor makes a case for a libertarian Christianity. |
Salon.com
August 22, 2001
Robert Scheer |
Dog days for God It's been a rough summer, taking the blame for senseless limits on stem cell research and killings on both sides in the Middle East... |
Reason
June 2003
Jodie T. Allen |
God Only Knows: The conflicting demands of wartime prayers You gotta feel a little sorry for God these days. The hotline from the White House has been hopping off the heavenly hook; the pope has been urging his flock to "persevere in unceasing prayer"; cries of "Allahu Akbar" echo from the streets of Gaza to those of Baghdad. |
Salon.com
September 14, 2001
Lauren Sandler |
Now more than ever Witnessing hell has made me a born-again atheist... |
Reason
August 2003 |
Letters Philosopher Daniel Dennett's analysis of free will and determinism is fatally flawed... Velvet President... Gun Battles... etc. |
Salon.com
November 22, 2000
Rebecca Segall |
Nuns without habits Melissa Camardo is young, bright, pretty and politically active. And she's a nun. What is she thinking? |
Reason
April 2005
Cathy Young |
A Wave of Hot Air A great tragedy like last December's tsunami might not be a good time for any kind of philosophizing, religious or secular---particularly philosophizing by safe and well-fed people about a disaster that doesn't touch their own lives. |
Salon.com
April 26, 2001
Ivan Oransky |
In bad faith A researcher offers evidence that religion is good for your health. Too bad so much of it is bunk... |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2012
Kendalll Powell |
Jeffrey Kieft: Inspired to Serve In addition to running his University of Colorado lab, he engages church groups on the theory of evolution. He's driven to advocate for science. |
Salon.com
June 12, 2002
Joseph Shimek |
Refusing to be scandalized As Catholics, we must recognize the sins of fallen priests -- but not forget the transcendent meaning of their calling and our faith. |
BusinessWeek
December 6, 2004
Weber & Coy |
Economists Are Getting Religion Religion is simply too big for economics to ignore, and now the gulf is closing. |
Reason
November 2003
Cathy Young |
Roy Moore's Monument Religion has a place in the American public square -- but not an exclusive one. |
Reason
March 2005
Cathy Young |
God or Mammon When religious groups in the U.S. get caught between their principles and their subsidies. |
