A Pair of Atheists Agree: Time to Let Go of God

Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam Harris. Alfred A. Knopf, 96 pages, $16.95.

With the publication in 1976 of The Selfish Gene, in which he argued that genes—not individuals—­are the key units of natural selection, Richard Dawkins made his grand entrance into the world of evolutionary biology. A rakish lecturer on zoology at Oxford, Read More

A Pair of Atheists Agree: Time to Let Go of God

Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam Harris. Alfred A. Knopf, 96 pages, $16.95.

With the publication in 1976 of The Selfish Gene, in which he argued that genes—not individuals—­are the key units of natural selection, Richard Dawkins made his grand entrance into the world of evolutionary biology. A rakish lecturer on zoology at Read More