Denyse O’Leary – September 30, 2024, 11:40 AM – Evolution News At one time, the New Atheism was riding a wave! Richard Dawkins, for example, was Cool. Two decades ago, he and renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett (1942–2024), journalist Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011), and neuroscientist Sam Harris were the Four Horsemen of the (New Atheist) apocalypse. From the publisher of the book The Four Horsemen (Random House Penguin 2007): At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen,” the heralds of religion’s unraveling — Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett — sat down together over cocktails. What followed was a … Continue reading Not with a Bang: How the New Atheism Fizzled