1. "Possessed" girl barred from school
(Religion/General)

...ke the girl back. "This letter serves to inform you that her difficulties could have been managed better by the school instead of ostracising her... She could use a lot of support from her cla...

2. Where are our baloney detectors?
(Paranormal/General)

...Stv.  In Gauteng he was wined and dined by the gullible brigade, including the media who should know better. Highveld FM even invited him to broadcast the nonsense about how he can talk to the de...

3. Faith-healing parents charged in death of infant son
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...ied - feeding him and giving him liquids. "He cared for his child and thought his child was getting better," Hoof told reporters. When asked why he did not call a doctor, he said: "He...

4. Origin of the Specious: Race, lies and stereotypes in Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy
(Religion/General)

...y why it is so alarming; it creeps in with “a spiritual smile”. And besides, the teachers had better be kind because – hey - they might come back as a “lower” race next t...

5. God will, in fact, be mocked
(Religion/Atheism)

...d "What?" God said, "You can do what you wanna but The next time you see me comin' you better run" Abe said, "Where d'you want this killin' done?" Here is th...

6. It's not what the papers say, it's what they don't
(Medicine/General)

...The Independent, the Mirror, the Express, the Mail, and the Metro have all decided that their readers are better off not knowing. Tick, tock. Does it stop there? No. Amateur physicians have long enjoy...

7. SA a country of God - Zuma
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...ities and ensure they "voted correctly because you care and you have compassion and are committed to bettering the lives of god's people". An Eastern Cape representative said: "Msho...

8. Anger over Satanism lesson
(Religion/General)

... like Satanism. "Whether parents like it or not, their children come into contact with it and it is better that they receive the right information. "Parents themselves should obtain inform...

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

...s like birds' claws." Wigmore also noted that dogs and cats eat grass when they are ill and feel better after regurgitation, which gave her the idea of the wheatgrass detox. Because we have f...

10. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

...oncerns with all the fidelity of a Caribbean cruise. This is wondrously strange. If one didn’t know better, one would think that man, in his fear of losing all that he loves, had created heaven,...

11. Movie : Constantine's Sword
(Religion/General)

...sh; a kind of detective story — as one man uncovers the dark areas of his own past, searching for a better future. Official site : http://constantinessword.com/ When Love of Religion Leads ...

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

...al interaction. So what? I mean really, who cares? Oh for God's sake. Don’t you have anything better to do that read this column? According to Dr. Rankin, if you didn’t get the sarc...

13. Make Way for Superfrog
(Science/General)

...ns whether the bony protrusions are meant for fighting. They could allow a frog's feet "to get a better grip on whatever rocky habitat they might be in," he says.   Reposted from :...

14. Americans pray at the pump for cheaper petrol
(Religion/General)

...recourt of the petrol station in a neighbourhood of Washington that, like many of its residents, has seen better days. "Lord, the prices at this pump have gone up since last week. We know that ...

15. Childish superstition: Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear
(Religion/General)

...ffinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack o...

16. Scientists Know Better Than You--Even When They're Wrong
(Science/General)

...entists are pushing this trend hard. Why should the average person acknowledge that scientists might know better than they do? It is possible to make an argument from the common sense idea that scien...

17. Trouble ahead for science
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...to a deeper understanding of nature, not to wonders like computers and cellphones, and certainly not to a better life. Nope. Science is murder. "Expelled" is a shoddy piece of propaganda t...

18. Darwin's Nemesis by William Dembski
(Book reviews/Reviews)

...e fossil record (p 68) and Richards’s own statement:  “I quickly learned that there were better arguments for young-earth creationism than those off-putting stories about Paluxy footp...

19. Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...#39;t have enough faith," the police chief said. They believed the key to healing "was it was better to keep praying. Call more people to help pray," he said. The mother believes th...

20. Religion 'linked to happy life'
(Religion/General)

A belief in God could lead to a more contented life, research suggests. Religious people are better able to cope with shocks such as losing a job or divorce, claims the study presented to a Royal Ec

21. More Americans leaving religious ties of their youth
(Religion/General)

...9;t engage with the church and don't have a "mature" faith. Protestants, he said, have been better at creating conditions for people to "have an experience" with Jesus. More th...

22. Study: Religion colors Americans' views of nanotechnology
(Religion/General)

... the technology and its applications, Scheufele says. It means the scientific community needs to do a far better job of placing the technology in context and in understanding the attitudes of the Amer...

23. What would Darwin have made of the Human Genome Project?
(Science/General)

.... Consequently, like a perfectly engineered BMW engine, random tweaks often make things worse rather than better. Such changes tend to result in genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis. In the crue...

24. Why multiculturalism must be abandoned
(Religion/General)

...ump me in with Richard Littlejohn and Nick Griffin as part of a "white community"? There is a better way for the state to understand and regulate human differences, beyond the old oppositi...

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

...e resistance to HIV/AIDS, though its original function was likely to ward off smallpox. But with more and better drugs and vaccines, clean water, sanitation and plentiful food (at least for most of th...

26. Atheism and Violence
(Religion/Atheism)

...edge feels obliged, according to the eternal will that rules this universe, to promote the victory of the better, the stronger, and to demand the submission of the worse and weaker. It embraces thereb...

27. Homeopathy gives you Aids
(Medicine/Homeopathy)

...great 19th century cholera epidemic of London, after all, survival rates at the homeopathic hospital were better than the medical hospitals, not because homeopaths could cure cholera, but because nobo...

28. The real danger in Darwin is not evolution, but racism
(Science/General)

...higher birthrates than "superior" races, would exhaust the resources needed for the survival of better people, eventually dragging down all civilization. Darwin even argued that advanced so...

29. New Findings Confirm Darwin's Theory: Evolution Not Random
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...dash; to study female sexual organ development in 51 species of nematode, a type of worm commonly used to better understand evolutionary processes.When the researchers measured changes in 40 defined c...

30. Britain cannot put its faith in religiously divided schools
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...chools exist as an emanation of religious faith. Their central and universal premise is that children are better people if they adhere to one particular faith. All other children are in some way infer...