An evaluating the views of the four Neo-atheists (Harris, Hitchens, Dennett and Dawkins)

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1 Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Qom

2 PhD student of comparative philosophy, University of Qom

10.22080/jre.2024.26799.1197

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Neo-atheism formed after September 11, 2001 is one of the most challenging issues today. Although neo-atheists have the same name as classical atheists, they have significant differences from them. They have abandoned the classical position of ignorance and have a positive and affirmative approach with the aim of challenging religious beliefs. For everyone to understand their purpose, they bring out laws and scientific discoveries from universities And by referring to naturalism based on evolutionism, they not only seek to deny the existence of God, but also provide evidence and clues for the non-existence of God And it is not to prove and confirm their scientific views, they simply explain religious beliefs scientifically and evolutionarily. The criticism of neo-atheists is the behavior of some believers in a particular religion, who by generalizing this behavior to all religions, judge God and religious faith. This research has evaluated the most important claims of Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins by proposing competing viewpoints and presents the demarcation between science and religion as the best solution to the problem.

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