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Four Reasons Christianity Hasn’t Been Explained Away
The New Theism
The rhetoric of the New Atheism is so extreme that their arguments are often lost in the resultant “trolling” and “twitter wars”. This is a shame: there are many secularists who do not want to eradicate religion, but who nevertheless accept some of the central claims of the new atheists.
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Posted in Christian Theology, Existence of God, Historical Jesus
Tagged "Leap of Faith" (Not), Christianity and Science, Evidence for God, Faith and Reason, Gnus, History, New Atheism
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Science, History and the Myths of New Atheism
New Atheists seem wedded to a secularist myth, a “meta-narrative” for technophiles. For example Jerry Coyne recently reacted angrily to Ross Douthat’s critique of contemporary secularist thought:
Douthat is wrong. The cracks are not in the edifice of secularism, but in the temples of faith.
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Posted in Quick Thoughts, Science and Christianity
Tagged Christianity and Science, Coyne, Evolution, Faith and Reason, God and Science, History, New Atheism, Secularism
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