Posts Tagged: Christopher Hitchens
White Noise and the Haters of Israel
The late atheist writer Christopher Hitchens used to refer to the theological arguments of his critics as “white noise.” As a non-believer, claims about the...
The Morally Confused World of Atheist Mathematician Jason Rosenhouse
Jason Rosenhouse is a Professor of Mathematics at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. In a recent post on Evolution Blog, Dr. Rosenhouse makes a...
Watchdog Group Highlights Anti-Israel Credentials of Amnesty International’s Researchers
As Amnesty International published an anonymous 85-page report condemning Israel on Thursday, NGO Monitor, the Jerusalem-based charity watchdog, highlighted the backgrounds of Amnesty's researchers, several...
The Boston Marathon Bombing and America’s So-Called Faith Privilege
The Boston Marathon bombing provoked enactment of what has emerged, since 9/11, as a ritual of political theater refined even beyond its long history of...
The Myth of the Almighty Scientist: “Genesis and Genes” by Yoram Bogacz (REVIEW)
Genesis and Genes, by Yoram Bogacz (Feldheim Publishers, 2012) There is at least one thing that intelligent theists and atheistic/materialist scientists agree on: "leaps of faith" are...
Alexander Cockburn: Remembering the Dead
It really is the ultimate sentimentality. That concern with how we will be remembered, or how those for whom we care will be treated in the...
The Flawed Logic of the Atheist
Dr. Stuart Kauffman, distinguished Origin of Life researcher, in a critique of the popular "RNA World" hypothesis for a naturalistic origin of life writes that,...
The Atheist Passover Seder With Christopher Hitchens
It may surprise you to hear that foremost atheist and anti-theist Christopher Hitchens made a seder and even required his daughter to attend. In a...
Dr. Phil, Shauli Grossman, Ex-Hassidim, and the True Path to Enlightenment
Writers and pundits of all ideological stripes have weighed in on the controversy surrounding the best-selling "expose" of the Hassidic world by Deborah Feldman and...
Who Created the Creator? Who Designed the Designer?
As I have pointed out many times in this column the origin of life is one of the greatest mysteries facing science...
Why Hitchens Is Wrong on Israel
I enjoy reading Christopher Hitchens, the Anglo-American gadfly journalist, even when he gets it completely wrong. Here is an example. In his autobiography,...
Let’s Face it: Dawkins Is Chicken
Richard Dawkins, the highest ranking clergyman in the hierarchy of New Age Atheism, recently informed us of the "real" reason why he refuses to accept...
Why Don’t Atheists Get It? (Actually, Some Do)
To keep this discussion simple, I am - for arguments sake - abandoning ship. I've left behind all my connections to religion...
Christopher Hitchens: The Elmer Gantry of Modern Atheism
Please circle one: Is Christopher Hitchens: (a) a Charlatan (b) an Unpardonably Sloppy Researcher (c) an Atheist Huckster or (d) All of the...