Stoning and the Cherry Pickers
This article responds to Sam Harris’ assertion that one can justify stoning someone to death for adultery by appealing to the New…
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This article responds to Sam Harris’ assertion that one can justify stoning someone to death for adultery by appealing to the New…
Christopher Hitchens, the celebrated author and polemicist, never got on with his younger brother, Peter. Some siblings, spawned from the…
My focus in this essay is to illustrate, through a detailed analysis of one particular article, the range of fallacious tactics that are…
Reviews Richard Dawkins' two part Channel 4 TV programme The Root of All Evil?
English literary history is a curious thing. And one especially curious thing about it is that it contains very little of importance which…
When Richard Dawkins wrote that his discovery of evolution had enabled him to be an ‘intellectually fulfilled atheist’, many…
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When Benjamin Franklin introduced his grandson to Voltaire shortly before the latter's death in 1778, that great opponent of the Catholic…
This extract from 'Atheism's New Clothes' responds to the accusation that theology is empty, like the Emperor's New Clothes.