Unbelievable? Debating the history of atheism - Nick Spencer & Julian Baggini

2014-09-13T00:00:00+01:00

Nick Spencer is the author of Atheists: The Origin of the Species. He explains the origins of various strands of atheism and why the New Atheism of today is constructed on a myth of its own.

Julian Baggini is an atheist philosopher and writer. He engages Spencer on whether atheism was a significant factor in Communist regimes and what the future of atheism may hold.

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Read Spencer’s book http://www.amazon.co.uk/Atheists-Origin-Species-Nick-Spencer/dp/1472902963

For Baggini: http://www.microphilosophy.net

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