The New Atheism (WisCon 31 panel)
Politics, Race, Class, and Religion•Senate A• Sunday, 8:30-9:45 a.m.
With prominent non-believers like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett putting out best-selling books slaughtering the sacred cows of religion, are we reaching a point where early Iron Age cults are about to be overthrown by simple rational thinking, or is an old-school backlash the order of the day? What does Darwinian evolution offer to feminism— and what do the various holy texts? Are sf writers prone to the intellectual arrogance of atheism? Are fantasy writers prone to the parasite of belief?
M: Heidi Lampietti, Jorjet Harper, Laurie J. Marks, Gregory G. Rihn, Doselle Young