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'''David Mills''' is an atheist author. In 2007, Mills predicted a "golden age of atheism" in the [[United States]].<ref>http://debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com/2007/06/we-are-approaching-golden-age-of.html</ref>
However, the [[Atheist Population|global population of atheists is shrinking]] and the [[New Atheism]] has not had much of an impact in terms of gaining new adherents to [[atheism]] in the United States.<ref>http://spectator.org/archives/2011/02/28/thriving-christianity</ref><ref>American Faith: A Work In Progress by Stephen Prothero, USA Today, March 10, 2008, page 11A</ref>
Furthermore, in 2011 [[Creation Ministries International]] launched a grassroots anti-[[evolution]] campaign entitled the [[Question evolution! campaign]] which will further erode atheistic ideology. Since [[World War II]] a majority of the most prominent and vocal defenders of the [[evolution|evolutionary]] position which employs [[methodological naturalism]] have been [[Atheism|atheists]].<ref>
* Dr. Don Batten, [http://creation.com/a-whos-who-of-evolutionists A ''Who’s Who'' of evolutionists] ''Creation'' 20(1):32, December 1997.
* [[Jonathan Sarfati]], Ph.D.,F.M., [http://www.creation.com/content/view/3830 ''Refuting Evolution'', Chapter 1, Facts and Bias]
</ref>
In a March 10, 2008 [[USA Today]] article Stephen Prothero reported:
{{cquote|Numbers lie, but they also tell tales untrustworthy and otherwise. So the key question stirring around the much discussed U.S Religious Landscape Survey released in late February by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life is what tale does it state about the state of the union.
For some, the story of this survey, based on interviews in multiple languages with more than 35,000 adults, is the strength of American Religion.
Not too long ago, I wrote that American atheism was going the way of the freak show. As books by [[Christopher Hitchens]] and other "new atheists" climbed the best seller lists, I caught a lot of flak for that prophecy. But atheist make up only 1.6% of respondents to this survey....<ref>American Faith: A Work In Progress by Stephen Prothero, USA Today, March 10, 2008, page 11A</ref>}}
A prime reason for the ineffectiveness of the New Atheism is the shallowness of its material. For example, even atheist philosopher [[Michael Ruse]] stated that that [[Richard Dawkins]]' book ''The God Delusion'' made him "embarrassed to be an atheist".<ref name="TDD3">http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/47052/?page=3</ref>
In 2011, ''American Spectator'' declared:
{{cquote|The report estimates about 80,000 new [[Christianity|Christians]] every day, 79,000 new [[Islam|Muslims]] every day, and 300 fewer atheists every day. These atheists are presumably disproportionately represented in the [[Western World|West]], while religion is thriving in the Global South, where [[Charismatic movement|charismatic Christianity]] is exploding."<ref>http://spectator.org/archives/2011/02/28/thriving-christianity</ref>}}
== Books ==
*''Atheist Universe'', 2004
== See also ==
*[[Christian apologetics|Evidence for Christianity]]
*[[Resources for leaving atheism and becoming a Christian]]
*[[Atheism]]
*[[Evolution]]
*[[Theory of Evolution and Cases of Fraud, Hoaxes and Speculation]]
*[[Atheism and Debate|Atheism and debate]]
==Notes==
{{reflist|2}}
'''David Mills''' is an atheist author. In 2007, Mills predicted a "golden age of atheism" in the [[United States]].<ref>http://debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com/2007/06/we-are-approaching-golden-age-of.html</ref>
However, the [[Atheist Population|global population of atheists is shrinking]] and the [[New Atheism]] has not had much of an impact in terms of gaining new adherents to [[atheism]] in the United States.<ref>http://spectator.org/archives/2011/02/28/thriving-christianity</ref><ref>American Faith: A Work In Progress by Stephen Prothero, USA Today, March 10, 2008, page 11A</ref>
Furthermore, in 2011 [[Creation Ministries International]] launched a grassroots anti-[[evolution]] campaign entitled the [[Question evolution! campaign]] which will further erode atheistic ideology. Since [[World War II]] a majority of the most prominent and vocal defenders of the [[evolution|evolutionary]] position which employs [[methodological naturalism]] have been [[Atheism|atheists]].<ref>
* Dr. Don Batten, [http://creation.com/a-whos-who-of-evolutionists A ''Who’s Who'' of evolutionists] ''Creation'' 20(1):32, December 1997.
* [[Jonathan Sarfati]], Ph.D.,F.M., [http://www.creation.com/content/view/3830 ''Refuting Evolution'', Chapter 1, Facts and Bias]
</ref>
In a March 10, 2008 [[USA Today]] article Stephen Prothero reported:
{{cquote|Numbers lie, but they also tell tales untrustworthy and otherwise. So the key question stirring around the much discussed U.S Religious Landscape Survey released in late February by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life is what tale does it state about the state of the union.
For some, the story of this survey, based on interviews in multiple languages with more than 35,000 adults, is the strength of American Religion.
Not too long ago, I wrote that American atheism was going the way of the freak show. As books by [[Christopher Hitchens]] and other "new atheists" climbed the best seller lists, I caught a lot of flak for that prophecy. But atheist make up only 1.6% of respondents to this survey....<ref>American Faith: A Work In Progress by Stephen Prothero, USA Today, March 10, 2008, page 11A</ref>}}
A prime reason for the ineffectiveness of the New Atheism is the shallowness of its material. For example, even atheist philosopher [[Michael Ruse]] stated that that [[Richard Dawkins]]' book ''The God Delusion'' made him "embarrassed to be an atheist".<ref name="TDD3">http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/47052/?page=3</ref>
In 2011, ''American Spectator'' declared:
{{cquote|The report estimates about 80,000 new [[Christianity|Christians]] every day, 79,000 new [[Islam|Muslims]] every day, and 300 fewer atheists every day. These atheists are presumably disproportionately represented in the [[Western World|West]], while religion is thriving in the Global South, where [[Charismatic movement|charismatic Christianity]] is exploding."<ref>http://spectator.org/archives/2011/02/28/thriving-christianity</ref>}}
== Books ==
*''Atheist Universe'', 2004
== See also ==
*[[Christian apologetics|Evidence for Christianity]]
*[[Resources for leaving atheism and becoming a Christian]]
*[[Atheism]]
*[[Evolution]]
*[[Theory of Evolution and Cases of Fraud, Hoaxes and Speculation]]
*[[Atheism and Debate|Atheism and debate]]
==Notes==
{{reflist|2}}