Project Reason

Sam Harris

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An article published by an advocate of the Question evolution! campaign entitled Sam Harris, Project Reason failed quotes Sam Harris's Project Reason website thusly in terms of a description and aims of the project:

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Project Reason is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society. The foundation draws on the talents of prominent and creative thinkers in a wide range of disciplines to encourage critical thinking and erode the influence of dogmatism, superstition, and bigotry in our world. One immediate need is to build an archive of the best secular resources on the Internet. Registered users can submit their favorite articles, videos, interviews, etc."

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In addition, the article Sam Harris, Project Reason failed offers this web traffic graph from the web traffic tracking company Alexa:

An Alexa web traffic tracking graph for Project Reason taken from the article Sam Harris, Project Reason failed

An updated Alexa web traffic tracking graph on January 31, 2014:

A January 31, 2014 Alexa web traffic tracking graph for Project Reason

Also, the article Sam Harris, Project Reason failed adds:

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...it is extremely hard to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. No doubt the "best" secular material on the internet is extremely poor in quality. In addition, material which promotes atheism is very much like evolutionary pseudoscience material in that it is extremely dull, stale and boring. To the best of my knowledge, there has never been an atheism revival! See: How stale and boring is evolutionary indoctrination? Is the public fooled or are they suspicious? What is the trend? Questions for Sam Harris and his anemic fan base Sam, what happened? By the way, what are your thoughts about global atheism shrinking? I do hope you know that this is expected to affect Western World atheism. The Birbeck, University of London professor Eric Kaufmann declared to a secular audience in a lecture titled Shall the religious inherit the earth: "The trends that are happening worldwide inevitably in an age of globalization are going to affect us."

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See also

• Atheism
• Internet atheism
• Decline of atheism
• Global atheism

Essays:

• Atheism: A house divided and in global decline
• 10 Reasons American atheism will see a significant decline

External links

• Sam Harris Project Reason failed - article from a Question evolution! campaign blog
• 2012 will be a bad year for atheism (see we told you so) - focuses Project Reason and other matters - Video by Shockofgod
• Project Reason (Warning: Filled with mind numbing foolishness)