Conversations with Great Minds – Richard Dawkins
Professor Richard Dawkins, British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author-his latest is “The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True” joins Thom Hartmann for Conversations w/ Great Minds. via Conversations with Great Minds – Richard Dawkins | Atheist Media Blog.
Christopher Hitchens makes first speaking appearance in months
Atheist superstar and public intellectual Christopher Hitchens appeared in public for the first time in months tonight at the Texas Freethought Convention in Houston. Hitchens, author of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, and most recently of Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens, was presented with the Richard Dawkins Freethinker of the Year Award by Dawkins [...]
‘Coming Out in America’ is a new film about atheists coming out
A Tiroir A Films documentary focuses on atheists coming out in America. Coming Out in America (working title) illustrates diverse people in different parts of the country who are taking the first step; they are “coming out” as nonbelievers. The film portrays how their lives are changed just by coming out. It is not a huge [...]
Atheism is cool, says Archbishop Rowan Williams – Telegraph
The Archbishop of Canterbury has admitted the Church of England is struggling to counter the image of atheism as “the new cool thing”. Dr Rowan Williams argued it has become difficult for the Church to convey its message because of the popularity of non-believers such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. “I’d want to know [...]
Lucretius, Man Of Modern Mystery : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR
Before he became a Professor of literature at Harvard, and way before he wrote his classic Shakespeare biography, Will in The World, Stephen Greenblatt was an I’ll-read-anything kind of kid. One day, he was standing in the campus book store, and there, in a bin, selling for ten cents (good price, even in 1961) he [...]
Atheists meet in secret at Brigham Young University
Once a month, at an undisclosed location in Utah County, a group of students predominantly from BYU gather to talk about agnosticism, secular humanism and other religious ideologies not accepted by the mainstream group on campus. It operates anonymously—known to its members simply as The Group—because a “disaffiliation” from The Church of Jesus Christ of [...]
