Is the New Atheism Dead?
Reasonable Faith Podcast
William Lane Craig
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Bill a popular atheist blogger says that the new atheism is a train wreck. |
| 0:14.0 | And when you read the headline to this article, |
| 0:16.0 | that's what it says, the train wreck that was the new atheism |
| 0:20.0 | is from biologists and associate professor at the University of Minnesota PZ Myers |
| 0:25.9 | PZ Myers has been a very vocal atheist quoted a lot Dawkins has quoted him on |
| 0:31.9 | occasion on some things and he says that the whole thing was a |
| 0:36.5 | a train wreck this is interesting article bill and that it kind of goes back and reminds us |
| 0:42.0 | how this whole new atheism started. And it really did start |
| 0:46.1 | with 9-11, Sam Harris's book, and suddenly Christopher Hitchins lecturing and speaking out against religion. |
| 0:57.0 | And Wired magazine is the one that coined the phrase and kind of set it in motion codified the new atheism when they did this. |
| 1:07.0 | Now PZ Myers is saying that the whole thing was a train wreck and he didn't want to have anything |
| 1:10.9 | to do with it. |
| 1:11.9 | When you've looked over this, |
| 1:13.0 | it seems that he's quoting an article. |
| 1:14.7 | There are a couple of articles now saying |
| 1:16.2 | that the new atheism movement is done. |
| 1:19.3 | And the reason that it is is because the new atheist have moved to the right. |
| 1:25.0 | Is that what you're getting the complaint from PZ Meyer here? |
| 1:28.5 | That seems to be his complaint. |
| 1:30.5 | He thinks that the new atheism became captivated by the radical right, |
| 1:38.0 | neo-conservatism, Islamophobia, anti-feminism, and so forth. |
| 1:46.4 | And so I get the impression that Myers isn't so much saying |
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