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Meaning, Morality and Jerry Coyne’s World
After Lawrence Krauss, Jerry Coyne seems to be the most likely candidate to inherit Richard Dawkins’ status as patron saint of New Atheism. He certainly has the qualifications – he is respected scientist who communicates complicated ideas with enviable ease. His recent dispute with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat reveals that he has none of the disqualifications: his worldview is far from coherent, and he is not above concealing an unconvincing argument behind bluff and bluster.
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Tagged Can We Be Good Without God, Debate, Gnus, Good and Evil, Jerry Coyne, McAtheism, New Atheism, Right and Wrong, The Moral Argument
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The Walking Dead and Eternal Life
The era of Western supremacy is drawing to an end as the colossal economies of China and India become as technologically advanced as Europe and America . Little wonder, then, that our appetite for apocalyptic fiction is growing. However, it is more than a little surprising to discover that end-times fiction has given an old B-Movie star – the zombie –a new lease of life.
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Tagged Good and Evil, Horror, Morality, nihilism, Right and Wrong, The Walking Dead, World War Z, Zombies
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