Tag Archives: Sam Harris

Sam Harris and Lawrence Krauss Talk About Nothing, and Make About That Much Sense

Lawrence Krauss says to Sam Harris, Indeed, the question, “Why is there something rather than nothing?” which forms the subtitle of the book [his recent A Universe From Nothing], is often used by the faithful as an unassailable argument that requires the existence of God, because of the famous claim, “out of nothing, nothing comes.” …

January 13, 2012 – 12:13 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Sam Harris: Where Reason Fails, Resort To Dogma

This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series Sam Harris's Moral Landscape

Book Review My reaction to Sam Harris’s latest book has progressed from “painful” to “alarming”—alarming for what Sam Harris is doing to himself, and what he proposes for the rest of us. How, for example, does one explain a paragraph like this from one who claims to champion rationality? This does not mean, of course, …

January 19, 2011 – 9:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (7)

Watching Sam Harris Hurt Himself

This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series Sam Harris's Moral Landscape

Book Review I’m not sure which is more painful: seeing a brilliant intellect like Sam Harris be so deceived, or knowing how surely he is deceiving others. Either way I grieve. So far I’ve only read the introduction to his recent best-seller The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, but that’s enough to …

January 17, 2011 – 3:32 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (9)

Sam Harris’s Moral Desperation Move

This entry is part 1 of 6 in the series Sam Harris's Moral Landscape

Coming to the National Conference on Christian Apologetics? Look me up there, or send an email, please—I’d love to connect with you. I’m waiting for a chance to read Sam Harris’s new book, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values. I like Harris’s thoughtfulness, his recognition of moral realities, and his stand against …

October 13, 2010 – 11:14 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Origins and Science | Tagged | Comments (102)

Sam Harris Contra Francis Collins as NIH Head

I was thinking of writing a response to Sam Harris’s recent bleat against Francis Collins. Collins, a world-class researcher, is also a medical doctor to whom my family owes considerable gratitude; when he was actually practicing medicine years ago, he treated one of our family members. But that’s not why I would want to respond …

August 6, 2009 – 4:20 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Origins and Science, The Faith | Tagged , , , | Comments (16)