Is religion really under threat?
A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of secularism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a[…]
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Can a religion survive being stripped of superstition?
There is no escaping the fact that Buddhism is, as the philosopher Owen Flanagan put it, full of “superstitious nonsense”[…]
ReadHeathen’s Progress 17: The modern believer is not suspicious enough
I’m afraid it’s all too common for defenders of faith to start off by piling up a whole load of[…]
ReadSam Harris on Science and Morality
In the latest microphilosophy podcast I talk to Sam Harris about his claim in The Moral Landscape that science can[…]
ReadWhy the Science vs. Religion Debate Won’t Go Away
There is a decent (not excellent) quality mps download of my recent talk at Transylvania University at this link.
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