1. Belief, God Genes, and the Findings of Science
(Religion/Atheism)

...phasised how wrong most religions are in claiming morality is a unique human quality:   “Some animals are surprisingly sensitive to the plight of others. Chimpanzees, which cannot swim, h...

2. Child sacrifice and ritual murders rise in Uganda as famine looms
(Religion/General)

...h-doctors using mass media to market their services and demand large sums of money to sacrifice humans and animals for people who believe blood will bring great prosperity.  "Cases of child ...

3. Science is just one gene away from defeating religion
(Religion/Atheism)

...ight eventually lead to the completion of the scientific harvest.  Human beings are supremely social animals. We recognise people and judge their feelings and intentions from their expressions a...

4. Top 10 Signs Of Evolution In Modern Man
(Science/General)

...l that triggers sexual desire, alarm, or information about food trails). It is this organ that allows some animals to track others for sex and to know of potential dangers. Humans are born with the Ja...

5. "Atheist bus" more like a bandwagon on highway to hell
(Religion/Atheism)

...persons, given a nihilistic message that there is no meaning to life -- that we are just reasonably clever animals who evolved from a set of molluscs, quite by chance -- are easily driven down the roa...

6. How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results
(Science/General)

...e stomach and have no enzymatic activity in the eater." Jarvis adds, "The fact that grass-eating animals are not spared from cancer, despite their large intake of fresh chlorophyll, seems to...

7. Sarcasm Seen as Evolutionary Survival Skill
(Science/General)

Humans are fundamentally social animals. Our social nature means that we interact with each other in positive, friendly ways, and it also means we know how to manipulate others in a very negative way.

8. Lizards make adaptive change
(Science/General)

...efore," Irschick said. "It's good evidence that not only can evolution happen rapidly, but animals can evolve new structures as well (in a short time span)," he said. To confirm...

9. Goblins in the cupboard
(Paranormal/General)

... told to exorcise the damn thing of its evil. In 1562 a hailstorm thundered across central Europe, killing animals, shredding crops, whipping roofs off buildings and plucking windows from their hinges...

10. Make Way for Superfrog
(Science/General)

...otten bloody scratches from them many a time." Due to strict government regulations on removing live animals from Cameroon, Blackburn's team had to do their anatomical studies on preserved m...

11. Religion a figment of human imagination
(Religion/General)

...y with Christ", or the Islamic "Ummah" uniting Muslims.   Stuck in the here and now No animals, not even our nearest relatives the chimpanzees, can do this, argues Bloch. Instead, ...

12. The simple falsehood at the heart of Expelled
(Religion/Atheism)

...ave known it for millennia, when they set aside particularly fruitful seed stock or especially robust farm animals for breeding, and eat the rest. Nazis used this elementary logic when they decided to...

13. Good people doing evil things
(Religion/General)

... For instance, they take the story of Noah literally, and don't question it: "The legend of the animals going two by two into the ark is charming, but the moral of the story of Noah is appa...

14. Sprinting down the evolutionary highway
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...,000 years ago. When humans made the transition from hunting-gathering to raising crops and domesticating animals, the move led to dietary changes and to settled habitats in specific regions. Combine...

15. Finnish patient gets new jaw from own stem cells
(Science/General)

...ll he has been through such a procedure," she said.   She added, the team used no materials from animals -- preventing the risk of transmitting viruses than can be hidden in an animal's ...

16. Down’s syndrome bombers kill 91
(Religion/General)

...ldquo;I just remember the horrible scenes of the bodies of dead and wounded people mixed with the blood of animals and birds, and then I found myself lying in a hospital bed.” The market, which...

17. Atheism and Violence
(Religion/Atheism)

...verse, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star [sic] on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the highest and most mendacious minute of “world h...

18. God's journal
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...t;Where do microbes fit into the creation account? Were they created along with the rest of the plants and animals in the first week of creation, or were they created later, after the Fall?" It&#...

19. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

...avoiding toxins. Moral vegetarians avoid meat for ethical reasons: to avoid complicity in the suffering of animals. By investigating their feelings about meat-eating, Rozin showed that the moral motiv...

20. The Great Afterlife Debate: Michael Shermer v. Deepak Chopra
(Religion/General)

...or blue skies; children tend to report a child’s heaven populated by scampering lambs and other baby animals. This made me realize that Hamlet was right to call death an undiscovered country, n...

21. Fish out of water: Your Inner Fish
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...reying on everything from reptiles to insects. Even more recently, as primates, we were active tree-living animals, feeding on fruits and leaves. Early humans were active hunter-gatherers and, ultimat...

22. Designer microbes to save us all
(Good news/All)

...isioned, one expected step is for research to move beyond single-celled organisms to engineered plants and animals.      ``We're entering a brave new world, where every year is...

23. Study holds new promise for spinal injuries
(Good news/All)

...he short nerve pathways in the center of the spinal cord, the regained function disappeared, returning the animals' paralysis. This step confirmed that the nervous system had rerouted messages fro...