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Tag Archives: sam harris
Sam Harris on Bill Maher tonight
DVR Alert! Sam Harris will appear tonight at 10pm on Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO. No information on what topics they’ll cover, but it should be good.
Posted in atheism, interviews, television
Tagged bill maher, real time with bill maher, sam harris
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Sam Harris on Francis Collins
Sam Harris contributed an op-ed to the New York Times over the weekend, in which he expresses the concerns of the freethought community and science advocates over President Obama’s naming of Francis Collins as head of the National Institutes of … Continue reading
Posted in christianity, commentary, medical research, news, politics, religion, science
Tagged francis collins, national institutes of health, nih, sam harris
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Robert Wright takes on the “New Atheists”
Author Robert Wright (The Evolution of God) posted an essay over the weekend at Huffington Post that’s causing quite a stir: “Why the ‘New Atheists’ are Right-Wing on Foreign Policy.” This is something Wright touched on in the latter half … Continue reading
Posted in atheism, christianity, commentary, history, islam, judaism, politics, religion
Tagged christopher hitchens, evolution of god, israel, middle east, new atheists, palestine, richard dawkins, robert wright, sam harris
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Harris v. Ball on Science
Check out this thoughtful debate between Sam Harris and science writer Philip Ball, which was sparked by Ball’s less-than-enthusiastic response to the launch of Harris’s Reason Project. It didn’t help that Ball was somewhat complimentary of Francis Collins’s BioLogos Foundation.
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Tagged biologos foundation, philip ball, reason project, sam harris
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Harris launches Reason Project
Author Sam Harris (The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation) has finally launched the much-anticipated Reason Project (www.ReasonProject.org). The Reason Project is described as ” a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in … Continue reading
Sam Harris wants to read your mind
The Edge Annual Question for 2009 has been posed, and Sam Harris is among the thinkers who has answered it. The question: “What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?” Harris’s answer: The ability to … Continue reading
Sam Harris Picks on Sarah Palin…Again
Well, he doesn’t so much pick on her as call a spade a spade. Sam Harris (The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation) is not only perceptive; he writes brilliantly. Anyway, here’s his latest essay, “In Defense of … Continue reading
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Tagged elitism, sam harris, sarah palin
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Podcast #1 – Introductions
Recorded 11/24/2007. Hosted by John C. Snider and David Driscoll. Show Notes: Introductions – Who are we and what’s this podcast all about? The Sam Harris “Problem with Atheism” Controversy – Author Sam Harris raised a ruckus with his October … Continue reading
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Tagged billboard, georgia, imagine no religion, pray for rain, problem with atheism, sam harris, sonny perdue
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The Strange Case of Francis Collins
The freethought bloggerati has been all atwitter for the last few weeks in response to President Obama’s appointment of Francis “Three Waterfalls” Collins to head the National Institutes of Health. Conservative pundits say we’re crying foul only because Collins is … Continue reading →