THE GOD OF THE GAPS
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Our present age has, especially in the West, an explosion of publications by scholars of various backgrounds, each in their own way, propagating some form of atheism. Some of the more outspoken among these are Daniel Dennett, 1 Richard Dawkins.' Christopher Hitchens/ Sam Harris," Victor Stenger.i David Mills6 and Gref Graffin.These authors engendered, especially in Northern America, a lively debate on the value, the scientific foundation and the rationality of religion.
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Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and a popular science author. Some of his work include: The Selfish Gene, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976; The Blind Watchmaker, New York: Norton and Company, 1986; The God Delusion, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Sam Harris is a neuroscientist and philosopher. His works include: The End of Faith, New York: Norton and Company, 2004, Letter to a Christian Nation, New York: Knopf, 2006.
Victor Stenger is a physicist and author of God the Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist, New York: Prometheus Books, 2007; TheNew Atheism: Taking a Standfor Science and Reason, New York: Prometheus books, 2009.
David Mills is a popular atheist author; he published, among others Atheist Universe: TI,e Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism, Berkeley: Ulysses Press, 2006.
Gref Graffin is an evolutionary biologist and lead singer of the rock band 'Bad Religion.' His recent contribution (co-authored by Steve Olson) to this debate is Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World without God, New York: IT Books, 2010.
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