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New Atheism’s Moral Meltdown (Part 1)

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Coyne’s Abject Failure

A little while ago, Jerry Coyne  replied to our critique of his approach to ethics. We’re not at all convinced by Coyne’s response, which essentially reduces to a rant about religious fundamentalism. Let us restate our case for the sake of clarity.

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New Atheism’s Moral Meltdown (Part 2)

One Coyne with Two Sides?

Read Part 1 here 

In our original article we wrote “Of course, [Coyne] believes in moral obligations and the significance of the individual.” It seems we were much too generous, for his commitment to moral reality is far from clear.

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