Last month, Darwinian P.Z. Myers proclaimed the new atheism over and dead. We’d heard it was in decline from a Google Trends graph but that’s like playing with a ouija board. Who knows?
Now, Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne emerged to say that it ain’t so. He quotes Sam Harris, one of the Four Horsemen of the (New Atheist) Apocalypse, along with Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennet and the late Christopher Hitchens:
Sam’s been busy, as I thought, but he did take the time to answer the question that I asked this morning: “Is New Atheism dead?” His answer is below, and so we have three of the four living Horsepersons all answering “no”—along with Steve Pinker…
“The new atheism has not disappeared. It has merely diffused into a wider conversation about facts and values. In the end, the new atheism was nothing more than the
Not sure what the difference is between disappearing and diffusing “into the wider conversation.” Time will tell. But it sounds dead.
See also: Which side will atheists choose in the war on science? They need to re-evaluate their alliance with progressivism, which is doing science no favours.
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