Category - richard dawkins

Ditchkins' demise?

Jonathan Bartley — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:09:57 +0100

Writing for the Guardian newspaper, Jonathan Bartley recaps the latest bout between religion and secularism. He reviews 'God Is Back: How the Revival of Religion is Changing the World' by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge and 'Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate' by Terry Eagleton

We need both the rational and the non-rational

Giles Fraser — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:10:00 +0100

Try to imagine a world in which only things acceptable to pure reason are deemed legitimate, suggests Giles Fraser. It would be to imagine the most desperately impoverished cultural and emotional (let alone spiritual) desert.

The Incompatibility of Science and Religion

Jordan Tchilingirian — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:20:00 +0000

Start: 21/01/2009 - 18:30

End: 21/01/2009 - 20:00

Richard Dawkins and others claim that science and religion are incompatible. Others argue that on a more sophisticated view there is only the appearance of a clash. Who is right?

Cold water, buses and shared humanity

Simon Barrow — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:29:02 +0100

The usual internet ranters apart, the much-publicised 'atheist bus project' has provoked some lively discussion and response.

Non-religion beyond Christendom

Press Office — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:19:33 +0100

Responding to the initial success of the 'atheist bus campaign' and the debate around Richard Dawkins anti-religion polemics, the religion and society think-tank Ekklesia says that this is more evi

Methodists welcome Dawkins initiative to get God on London buses

staff writers — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:45:53 +0100

The British Methodist Church has welcomed news that Professor Richard Dawkins is to part fund an advertising campaign on London buses despite its slogan ‘There is probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life’.

Atheist evangelism campaign wants to take people for a God-free ride

staff writers — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:24:44 +0100

The UK’s first ever atheist advertising campaign launches today, with official support from Professor Richard Dawkins, best-selling author of The God Delusion. The campaign will feature adverts across London’s bendy buses.

Transcending Dawkins' God: renewing the positive interface between science and faith

Jordan Tchilingirian — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:05:17 +0100

Start: 13/09/2008 - 10:30

End: 13/09/2008 - 16:30

Event organised by the Church & Society Council of the Church of Scotland

Theology, science and the problem of ID

Simon Barrow — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:17:10 +0100

This paper briefly sets out the religious, philosophical and political context of both the 2007 government guidelines on science teaching and the recent report and statement of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR), explaining why 'intelligent design' (ID), popular among some religious groups, is neither sound science nor good theology. It includes notes, an overview of 2005-7 Ekklesia comments on creationism and ID, and a select bibliography.

Simon Barrow

The God elusion

Simon Barrow — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:11:34 +0000

The current media-propelled debates about God are mostly hopelessly out of touch with their own intense fallibility, says Simon Barrow. He tries to explain why God-talk will always be helpfully elusive if it is faithful to what it seeks to point to.