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Article: The new atheism and the new anti-atheism: the stealth religion of David Sloan Wilson.(Critical essay)
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- Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
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- March 22, 2009
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS AND DANIEL Dennett must be used to having their atheism called a pseudo-religion. Usually, however, such accusations are made by religious figures who nonetheless do not seem to be willing to follow up with offers of inter-religious ecumenical exchange. It must have been something of a surprise for the so-called New Atheists to have their views called a stealth religion by a self-declared atheist who is one of the world's scientific authorities on religion. David Sloan Wilson--an evolutionary biologist at Binghamton University (SUNY), NY whose critical review of Dawkins' The God Delusion appeared in SKEPTIC Vol. 13, No. 4--has proposed an evolutionary ...
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