Richard Dawkins

The Hard Truths of Scientism

—Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. The Grand Design Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. —Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Carl Sagan —Physical facts fix all the facts. Alex Rosenberg One making the claim that […]

The Next Thirty Years?

In October 2010, I attended my first ever major non-believers conference, “Setting the Agenda: Secular Humanism’s Next 30 Years,” which was sponsored as a subscribers’ conference for the magazine, Free Inquiry. Since I’ve been a subscriber for at least 15 years, this seemed like a good fit for me. I was eager because there was a remarkable list of secular celebrities on the program and it was touted as a definitive event. To give you one humorous glimpse into the […]