
Dawkins and the Abuse of History
When Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion was published in 2006, it quickly became the rallying manifesto of what has been termed New…
When Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion was published in 2006, it quickly became the rallying manifesto of what has been termed New…
My focus in this essay is to illustrate, through a detailed analysis of one particular article, the range of fallacious tactics that are…
At the start of 2005, online magazine ‘Edge The World Question Centre’ posed the following question to a number of scientific…
Is atheism a claim or simply a non-belief? A comparison to not believing that Sweden exists helps to clarify the issues.
This article responds to Sam Harris’ assertion that one can justify stoning someone to death for adultery by appealing to the New…
This essay attempts to do two things. Firstly, it seeks to offer a brief tour of some of the developments in western literature,…
Three talks by Wim Rietkerk entitled 'The Challenge of Atheism' consider whether Christianity whould be seen as an ideology or as a…
When Richard Dawkins wrote that his discovery of evolution had enabled him to be an ‘intellectually fulfilled atheist’, many…
I woke up this morning to a radio news item about the continuing scandal of child abuse carried out by some Catholic priests during the…