by Heather Hastie | May 14, 2018 | Atheism, New Zealand, Religion
Richard Dawkins gave a couple of talks in New Zealand recently. He’s here promoting his new book, Science in the Soul. As usual that brought people out of the woodwork with the message the atheists are either stupid, lying, or just plain evil. None ever sees the...
by Heather Hastie | Dec 4, 2015 | Atheism
Back in mid-September I did a post called ‘Is New Atheism a Cult?’ The discussion is still going on – so far there are 336 comments. A few days ago a link was posted there by a commenter to an Alternet article by Guardian journalist Jeff Sparrow...
by Heather Hastie | Sep 19, 2015 | Atheism
Wikipedia says: New Atheism is a social and political movement that began in the early 2000s in favour of atheism and secularism promoted by a collection of modern atheist writers who have advocated the view that “religion should not simply be tolerated but...
by Heather Hastie | Apr 13, 2015 | Science & Nature
Darwin Day, 12 February, is the anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin in 1809. On Darwin Day in 2015, Richard Dawkins via the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science started producing a series of short YouTube videos about various aspects of...
by Heather Hastie | Mar 27, 2015 | Atheism, Freedom of Speech, Religion, Science & Nature
Yesterday (26 March) was Richard Dawkins’s 74th birthday. I’m a big fan of Dawkins – it was while watching one of his documentaries a few years ago that I realized that I was an atheist, and had been at least agnostic since I was a child. The God...
