Gavin Ortlund examines a key question raised in a debate between Douthat and Pinker, arguing that atheism struggles to provide a sufficient foundation for moral obligation and human rights without ...

The heyday of the new atheism in Western life, when anti-God tracts by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens bestrode best-seller lists, did not arrive because brilliant new arguments for God’s ...

This post is in response to "The Fool Says in His Heart That Atheists Are Mutants" By Scott A. McGreal MSc. In my previous post, I discussed a recent paper (Dutton, Madison, & Dunkel, 2017) that ...

Interested in these topics? Go to Sapient Nature. My recent post has attracted considerably more attention than I expected--over 150 comments (at last count) and even a repartee by David Niose.