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Daily Archives: November 16, 2009
Bill Moyers Talks to Robert Wright About the Evolution of God
I think it’s fair to characterize Robert Wright’s book this way: he has traced what he himself calls “the history of an illusion” to something less and less illusory. In other words, the history of religion, for Wright, is a … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, Christianity, evolution, God, Islam, Judaism, philosophy, psychology, robert wright
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A Good Question
At Christianity Today, Dinesh D’Souza reviewed Robert Wright’s book, The Evolution of God (2009), and asks a good question: Regretting the ‘problem’ passages that seem to justify violence in the Qur’an and also in the Bible, Wright speculates that ‘if … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, Darwin, dinesh d'souza, God, jerry coyne, John Lennon, Nietzsche, philosophy, religion, robert wright, the Bible
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A Recent Debate on Atheism v. Theism
And an interesting match up. Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris v. Robert Wright, Dinesh D’Souza, and a rabbi, Shmuley Boteach:
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, atheist, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, God, philosophy, religion, robert wright, Sam Harris
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Prometheus Unbound 