Author: Chris Mooney
Chris Mooney is the author of three books: The Republican War on Science (Basic Books, 2005), Storm World (Harcourt, 2007), and Unscientific America (with Sheril Kirshenbaum, Basic Books, 2009). He is one of the hosts of the Center for Inquiry’s podcast Point of Inquiry. This article is an edited version of his talk, which was transcribed by Blaize Barnicoat.
Toward Common Cause
I believe we should, for the most part, be “accommodating” toward religion (though I don’t like that term). And I believe that we atheists and humanists and freethi nkers should strive to avoid fighting among ourselves about religion. We share 99 percent of our intellectual DNA; it only makes sense that we should be able …