Who read "Battle of the New Atheism" and understood it?

Question

Here is the link:

http://www.wired.com/news/wiredmag/0,71985-0.html

Do you believe in kreationism and where are you from?

I can not believe that after half an hour nobody in this world did give me an answer. Where are the people believing in any god?
If you believe in kreationism, could you please explain why?
If you do not belive, could you explain why not?

Answer 1

I think it is rather silly in a way. It talks about people still believing that the earth is flat and a bunch of other garbage. It read about ½ and stopped. I personally believe that God created all living things including the earth and each of the 6 days that it took could be any number of years as it is more of a time span instead of actual days. He created man in his own image. This is my own belief stated simply.→

Answer 2

I read (most) of it and understood it. The thing is, I can generally understand a 3rd grade essay on what a student did on their summer vacation; that doesn't mean it is meriting a response. If anything, the title of the article would have better been "Atheism: The New Religious Extremists." The New Atheism is little more than a foundation of logical fallacies. The strawman approach, for instance: by characterizing an entire group (religion) by the behaviors of a small subsection (extremist creationists), one cannot claim a logical progression. Further more, by claiming that religion is evil (which itself is a curious phrase, since it requires a "god's eye view", as Kant would put it), among other instances, the article actually has a few of the fingerprints of the precursors to genocide (and general Orwellian doublethink).

And for the record, since the article brought it up, Galileo was persecuted not because of religion but because it was believed that (some of) the Greeks actually knew what they were talking about: many Greek texts were given the same weight as the bible; Galileo attacked those and thus was shunned.