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Materialistic and one-sided criticism of religion

Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett: The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked and Atheist Revolution

: DEBATE ON FAITH: When faith is attacked with bravura by four intellectual musketeers, religion as a life experience is hardly affected.
Henning Næs -

Step forward, yes, but progress?

Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now. The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress

: In his eagerness to defend reason and enlightenment, Steven Pinker forgets that this can include more than what he himself puts into the concepts.
Henning Næs -

Let's stick to science when it comes to 9 / 11, not conspiracies

: Unfortunately, there was more focus on the "problem of conspiracy theorists" than discussing facts and scientific arguments after Ny Tid's 9/11 article in September.
David Llewlyn -

A dusty hovering in a sunbeam

James Lovelock: The Earth and I

EARTH: For many, James Lovelock has been a science enfant terrible for around 50 years.
Ranveig Eckhoff -

The environmental crisis from the perspective of the stars

David Grinspoon: Earth in Human Hands – Shaping Our Planet's Future

: The day we help instead of disturbing the climate, we can talk about the "mature anthropocene".
Anders Dunk -

The wonderful new world of biology

: DNA research, stem cell research and developments in modern medicine and biology have set minds on fire. But as always, it is better to know than to think.
Kjetil Korslund -

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