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needs to remember people don't have "faith" in science. You can perform a test and check the outcome against the results of similar tests. Other people can read about these results and make up their minds. Secondly, I have never heard Hedges and Harris argue that humanity is steadily "progressing" towards a godless utopia, or a utopia of any sort. They seem to argue that as man gains more knowledge about how the world and the universe function, large scale fill-in-the-blanks style memes, like religion, become harder to sustain and attempts to sustain them lead to the conflicts we have today. To compare "the new atheists" (only two people as far as I can tell) to the entire fundamentalist network and its enormous coercive power is absurd.
