Author Archives: Graham Veale
Searching for Evil
Google lives by a simple mantra: “Don’t be evil.” This is both a simple, informal company motto and the guiding premise of a code of conduct for all company employees and board members. Unpacking its meaning a little, the preface to the code of conduct explains
“… it’s about providing our users unbiased access to information, focusing on their needs and giving them the best products and services that we can.
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Tagged Can We Be Good Without God, Good and Evil
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Faith, Progress and Pinker’s Angels
How Violent Was the Past? The Violence of the Churches The Sins of the Crusaders Christians, Nazis and Communists How Safe Has Science Made the World?
In the second chapter of New Atheism: A Survival Guide I argue that:
Scientific progress could face severe practical obstacles.
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Tagged Better Angels, Christianity and Politics, Crimes of the Church, Crusades, Myth of Christian Hitler, Myths of Secularism, Nazism and Christianity, New Atheism, New Theism, Pinker, Practical Reasons for Faith, Secularism
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