The Scientific Deception Of The New Atheists
The growth of agnosticism in the Western world in recent times has been remarkable. In both the UK and US, to take just two examples, there has been an increase in Christian apostasy the like of which has never been recorded in recent history. The exponential growth of agnosticism has coincided, by and large, with the spread of New Atheism. New Atheists like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens and Daniel Dennett are distinguished as much by polemical style as argumentative substance; their main stylistic distinguisher seemingly is outrage on the effects of religion on society (Taylor). Aside from moral outrage, New Atheists typically employ a series of scientific and religious arguments which range from postulating that Darwinism negates the design argument for God’s existence, to arguments suggesting that religion has and continues to inhibit scientific development. Considering the demographic movement towards agnosticism in the West, the vital question is how effective have these arguments been?
9 chapters
Chapters
- 1Introduction2 min read
- 2New Atheist’s Scientific Arguments Against Theism7 min read
- 3New Atheist’s Arguments Against Religion8 min read
- 4New Atheist’s Distortion of the History of Science and Religion5 min read
- 5How New Atheism Inhibits Science2 min read
- 6Why Has The West Become Increasingly Irreligious?4 min read
- 7Most Westerners Believe in a Higher Power, and the Failure of the New Atheist Movement5 min read
- 8Conclusion2 min read
- 9Bibliography6 min read