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 Natural Atheism
ELLER, David
Keywords: atheism
2004

Web Site

• Natural Atheism, David Eller

 neoliberalism (n.)

• An ill-defined economic ideology associated with laissez-faire economic liberalism and free market capitalism, including privatization, deregulation, free trade, austerity and reductions in government spending. Its purpose is the restoration of ruling class power and requires the weakening or destruction of organized labour.

Articles about Neoliberalism

• The Collapse of Neoliberalism, Ganesh Sitaraman, New Republic, 2019-12-23.
• The Neoliberal Challenge, What is Neoliberalism?, Dag Einar Thorsen, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, 2009-10-10.
• What is Neoliberalism?, Dag Einar Thorsen and Amund Lie, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, 2007(?).
• Neoliberalism, Wikipedia.

 NIETZSCHE, Friedrich

 nihilism (n.)

• rejection of all religious and moral principles
• an extreme form of scepticism that denies all existence and holds that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated
• a 19^th-century Russian revolutionary movement opposed to all constituted authority

 NOMA, abbreviation of Non-Overlapping MAgisteria

• philosophical stance, proposed by the paleontologist Stephen J. Gould, which holds that science and religion belong to two separate, non-intersecting, non-conflicting domains in which each has its particular expertise: science dealing with empirical facts, the religious "magisterium" being responsible for moral meaning and value

In reality, science and supernatural religion are totally incompatible and contradictory, and this incompatibility cannot be resolved by separating the two because their fields of application inevitably overlap. Thus, the NOMA hypothesis is clearly false.

"Whenever the claim is made that science or religion can only explore some specified domain, or can only ask some restricted sort of questions, and so forth, we are probably justified in suspecting that an oversimplification and arbitrary limitation is likely to be involved."

— Tad S. Clements, Science Versus Religion

References on Religion and Science

1. Tad S. Clements, Science Versus Religion, Prometheus Books, Buffalo, New York, 1990
2. Richard Dawkins, "When Religion Steps on Science's Turf, The Alleged Separation Between the Two Is Not So Tidy", Free Inquiry Vol. 18, No. 2, Spring, 1998
3. Stephen J. Gould, "Non-Overlapping Magisteria", Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 23, No. 4, July/August 1999
4. Paul Kurtz, "Should Skeptical Inquiry Be Applied to Religion?", Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 23, No. 4, July/August 1999
5. Paul Kurtz, "Are Science and Religion Compatible?", Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 26, No. 2, March/April 2002
6. Paul Kurtz, "A New Approach", Free Inquiry, Vol. 22, No. 4, 2002
7. Massimo Pigliucci, "Personal Gods, Deism, & the Limits of Scepticism", Skeptic Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2000
8. Massimo Pigliucci, "A case against God: science and the falsifiability question in theology", Massimo's Skeptic & Humanist Web

See: metabelief.

See: "Religion, Morality and Charlatanism".

 nonbelief (n.)

• absence of belief in religious doctrine or the supernatural

In a society in which the dominant religions are all theistic or deistic, the terms atheism and nonbelief are practically synonymous. (There may be people who believe in no god(s) but nevertheless hold supernatural beliefs—involving UFOs for example—but their number is not significant.)

 nonbeliever (n.)

• an individual with no religious or supernatural beliefs

Every nonbeliever is an atheist. In a society in which the dominant religions are all theistic or deistic, the terms atheist and nonbeliever are practically synonymous. (There may be people who believe in no god(s) but nevertheless hold supernatural beliefs—involving UFOs for example—but their number is not significant.)