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Any religious belief seeking to explain the 'how's of the universe is competing with science – and in this sphere science will always win.

The above talk was sent to me by a reader and is well worth watching. In it, the neuroscientist David Eagleman says many very reasonable things and says them well. Unfortunately, on the subject of religion he appears to make a conscious effort to play the good cop to the bad cop of the new atheism.

Are atheists hypocrites for condemning the faith of the religious, yet having an equally strong faith in the power of science ?

Poor scholarship, ad hominem attacks and an obsession with religion are not the hallmarks of a solid argument.

I'm with Harris up to this point. I part company with him when he argues in his new book The Moral Landscape that science can take religion's place as the supreme arbiter of moral "truth".

A short introduction to Sam Harris's book, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values.

Sam Harris presents his new book: "The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values ".

Richard Carrier on the fallacy of supernatural "intelligent design". The universe is a perfect black hole generator, so why not assume god(s) designed it for that purpose?

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait gave a thoughtful talk called "Don't Be A Dick" at TAM 8, July 8-11, 2010 about attitudes in the skeptical mouvement.

"That Mitchell and Webb Look"'s parody of Richard Dawkins.