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Re: What is a "new" atheist?         

Group: alt.atheism · Group Profile
Author: Daniel Kolle
Date: May 11, 2008 17:07

On Sun, 11 May 2008 14:50:07 +0000 (UTC),
gazelle@xmission.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) wrote:
>In article 4ax.com>,
>Free Lunch wrote:
>...
>>>The people named in the first paragraph above are in their fifties and
>>>sixties, so they can't be considered "new" in the chronological sense.
>>
>>Newly energized in their response to the evils of religion.
>
>Yes.
>
>Incidentally (this is not directed at you, but at the OP), Sam Harris
>(the only one of those mentioned whose life and work I have studied in
>any detail) was born in 1967.
>
>I don't _think_ the others are that much older than that.

Dawkins and Dennett are both old-fart professors approaching seventy.

--
Daniel "Mister Brevity" Kolle
A.A. #2035
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