Recent content by Ovazor

It is true that Russel preferred to call him an agnostic. However, when Russel says "atheist" he seems to mean what would be called a strong atheist, i.e. somebody who claims to know that there is no God. in his essay What is an Agnostic he says: "An atheist, like Christian, holds that we can...

Is there somebody in the list who should not be there? Most of them are on Wikipedia's List of Atheist Philosophers. For the rest, it is easily found by few minutes of googling.

Then I think that "No" is the answer. You asked about correlations. It is fairly clear that there is a strong positive correlation between being post-modernist and being atheist. Almost all of the most influential postmodernists are/were atheists, including at least Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze...

I am aware that the discussion has moved on from the OP, but I think that there is another angle to this question that has not been addressed: You ask if the apparent disdain of atheists for postmodernism implies that atheism is a relic of modernism. However, most if not all of the really big...

From the Devil's dictionary: HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

If a person is suffering from a deadly medical condition, and would rather than he was not, and *poof* - the spaceman cures him, how would that interfere with that person's free will?

How is this known? *ducks*

Whereas your arguments are based on what exactly? And how do you know this? And please, provide an answer that does not include any mental speculations you seem to discount. Who believes that? I have never encountered an atheist or scientist who claims to have perfect understanding. They are...