In Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon , Daniel Dennett hopes to break the spell--not of religious belief, but...

In Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon , Daniel Dennett hopes to break the spell--not of religious belief, but of the co...

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins rose to celebrity with the 1976 publication of his brilliant book, The Selfish Gene . Dawkins is an...

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." Woody Allen "Despite the v...

According to Hindu advaita philosophy, or nondualism, your "I am" is a manifestation of the great "I AM," and for that r...

"Currently it is fashionable to be devoutly undevout. Religion’s most passionate antagonists—Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Dan...

“Religion is proving perfectly compatible with modernity in all its forms, high and low.” This conclusion by John Micklethwait, editor of th...

Atheists today have public intellectuals on their side, as well as neuroscientists and philosophers. These people sound their opinions far a...

In The God Delusion , Richard Dawkins argues that religion is propagated through indoctrination, especially of children. Children are gullib...

I find a mystery novel by Maggie Hamand, The Resurrection of the Body, interesting because it explores the theme of Christ's resurrectio...

Andrew Newberg, M.D., finds in his research evidence that the God factor is hard-wired into the brain so that religion and spirituality are ...

Part 1. Subject as above. Part 2. On emotional salience and religious or mystical experiences. Emotional reactions to moral atrocities commi...

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Does Science Make Belief in God Obsolete? Steven Pinker of Harvard. . . Yes, if by... science "we mean the entire enterprise of secul...