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By Matt Schudel
December 16, 2011
Print: Washington Post
Christopher Hitchens, a sharp-witted provocateur who used his formidable learning, biting wit and muscular prose style to skewer what he considered high-placed hypocrites, craven lackeys of the right and left, “Islamic fascists” and religious faith of any kind, died Thursday from esophageal cancer.
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By Philip Ball
December 7, 2011
The finding that religion scarcely influences moral intuition undermines the idea that a godless society will be immoral, says Philip Ball. Whether it ‘explains’ religion is another matter.
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By Christopher Hitchens
November 6, 2011
In an excerpt from his 2007 book ‘God is Not Great’, Christopher Hitchens recounts the “embarrassing” beginnings of Mormonism.
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Andrew Zak Williams
August 4, 2011
Print: New Statesman
Earlier this year, Andrew Zak Williams asked public figures why they believe in God. Now it’s the turn of the atheists – from A C Grayling to P Z Myers – to explain why they don’t.
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By Carl Sagan
June 16, 2011
Print: Godless Geeks
In this excerpt from his 1995 book, The Demon Haunted World, Carl Sagan offers his famous analogy of claims for the existence of a god.
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by Natalie Angier
May 3, 2011
Print: Free Inquiry magazine
New York Times science writer Natalie Angier’s 2004 essay about scientists trying to accommodate religion.
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Martin Rees
April 23, 2011
Print: New Statesman
Richard Dawkins called him a “compliant quisling” for accepting the Templeton Prize. Here, Martin Rees explains his decision.
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by AC Grayling
April 4, 2011
Print: The Guardian
Are there people who believe only somewhat that there are no supernatural entities in the universe - or only part of a god?
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By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
March 1, 2011
Print: New York Times
Peter Gomes, a minister and theologian at Harvard who came out of the closet in 1991, pushed a campaign to rebut literal and fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible.
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January 1, 2011
Print: God Discussion
The 5 most outrageous and 5 most positive news stories/quotes about atheism, humanists, and non-theists in 2010.
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by Judy Berman
December 23, 2010
Print: Flavorwire
We round up our favorite irreligious quotes from our funniest atheists, from Woody Allen and Cloris Leachman to David Cross and Sarah Silverman.
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By Ricky Gervais
December 20, 2010
Print: Wall Street Journal
Actor and comedian Ricky Gervais on his atheism.
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By NICHOLAS WADE
December 13, 2010
Print: New York Times
A Taiwanese researcher has spent a decade mapping out the neurons in a fruit fly’s brain, the first step towards assembling a complete computer model of a complex brain.
By FRANS DE WAAL
October 17, 2010
Print: New York Times Opinionator
Frans de Waal examines how the behavior of primates sheds light on the origins of the sense of right and wrong in human beings.
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by Paul Bloom
September 30, 2010
Print: Atlantic Magazine
Recently psychologists doing research on the minds of infants have discovered two related facts that may account for the similarities between religions. One: human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena. And two: this predisposition is an incidental by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry. Which leads to the question…
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September 28, 2010
Print: The Pew Research Center
A Pew survey finds that atheists and agnostics in America are more knowledgeable about religions than religious people.
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Richard Dawkins
September 24, 2010
Print: The Guardian
The pope’s attack on atheists and secularists was disgraceful and redolent of the sound of stones hurled within a glass house.
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by Matthew Harwood
September 21, 2010
Mikey Weinstein, the founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, courts hate, threats, and financial ruin to fight Christian supremacists in the U.S. armed forces.
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Matthew Harwood
September 21, 2010
The arrest of Christian extremists in the Midwest shows that the US has more to worry about than simply homegrown jihadists.
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By CHARLES M. BLOW
September 5, 2010
Print: New York Times
Plotting religiosity vs. per capital GDP reveals that the U.S. is an outlier.
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