Tag: Scott Stephens

  • Trolling atheists

    Scott Stephens has a good heart, and is refreshingly well acquainted with the absurdities of politics. However, in his capacity as an antagonist of atheists, I find his arguments rather inadequate. While Stephens propounds his notion of “chic” and “fashionable” atheism, I sense that his own lines of reasoning are sculpted by the vacuous fashions of…

  • A “pseudo-intellectual trifle”

    Scott Stephens has an article on the ABC’s Religion and Ethics website called “The Poverty of the New Atheism“. PZ Myers has a go at this (and he’s seen it all before). Stephens’ article resembles the Courtier’s Reply, another of Myers’ illuminations. Theologians seem to object to atheist arguments not because they’re wrong – they hardly…