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

...o;  A very large majority – some research suggests more than 95% - of the elite scientists in Britain and the USA agree with this view. Wolpert refers in Six Impossible Things Before Brea...

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

...nimals who evolved from a set of molluscs, quite by chance -- are easily driven down the road to despair. Britain has been hugely shaken, over the last month, by the public tragedy of 'Baby P'...

3. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

...er indices of charity. Consider the ratio in salaries between top-tier CEOs and their average employee: in Britain it is 24 to 1; France 15 to 1; Sweden 13 to 1; in the United States, where 83% of the...

4. Scientists rally against creationist 'superstition'
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...e father of evolution, his supporters are taking the fight to their opponents The rise of creationism in Britain to the point where four out of 10 Britons believe it to be the literal truth – ...

5. Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
(Religion/General)

... stinks." Liberty director, Shami Chakrabarti, said: "This barmy prosecution makes a mockery of Britain's free speech traditions. "After criminalising the use of the word 'cul...

6. Atheists are nice people who will roast in hell, says Cardinal
(Religion/Atheism)

...nostics are decent people whose tormented souls will burn for all eternity in the scorching fires of hell, Britain's biggest catholic said last night. Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor said no...

7. Churchgoing on its knees as Christianity falls out of favour
(Religion/General)

Church attendance in Britain is declining so fast that the number of regular churchgoers will be fewer than those attending mosques within a generation, research published today suggests. The fall -

8. Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...fensive to Islam were expunged. I understood the editors' concerns at the time: not only did they have Britain's suffocating libel laws to worry about, but Muslim physicians and engineers in t...

9. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda
(Religion/General)

... not all that unusual for his time, not just in Germany but throughout Europe, including my own country of Britain, by the way. What singled Hitler out was the fact that he somehow managed to come to ...

10. Psychic crackdown on the cards
(Paranormal/General)

...s civil action by sceptics. The problem is that very little in the multi-million-pound psychic industry in Britain is for free, and anyone charging or accepting 'gifts' in exchange for a servi...

11. Russell T Davies: Return of the (tea) Time Lord
(Good news/Humour)

He is the creator of galaxies, saviour of Saturday night telly and the most influential gay man in Britain, but Russell T Davies can still shriek like a starstruck fanboy. "Richard Dawkins!"

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

...oblem like Sharia? Ever since he suggested it is "unavoidable" – and desirable – for Britain to have Islamic courts ruling on Muslim family affairs, bashing the bishop has become...

13. Sperm Made From Female Bone Marrow, Men Obsolete?
(Science/General)

...ople want children and no one wants anyone else to tell them they can't have them." An update of Britain's ageing fertility laws is going through Parliament and is likely to allow the us...

14. Archbishop of Canterbury calls for new law to punish 'thoughtless or cruel' words
(Religion/Enforced religion)

..., even if unintentionally, cruel styles of speaking and acting,” he said. The last conviction under Britain’s blasphemy law was in 1979. The Government recently indicated it is willing to...

15. SA man's hunt for Maddie
(Science/Daniel Krugel)

...pper took. It wound through alleywayss and down to a nearby beach, where the trail went cold, according to Britain's News of the World. This has convinced Madeleine's parents that their daug...

16. Alarmist TV Drama on Autism and Vaccination
(Medicine/General)

... previously expressed fears that the popularity of the antivaccine movement could have adverse effects. In Britain a widely publicized — and since discredited — research paper published in...

17. The Catholic Church's devillish practice of exorcism
(Religion/General)

...shire.   Father Anthony Hayne is a soft-spoken, sincere man who tells me that in his little slice of Britain he carries out “a couple of exorcisms a month”. Although it’s years...

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

... former Chancellor of the Exchequer) Reposted from : http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/opinion/Richard-Heller-Britain-cannot-put.3652772.jp   ...

19. Secret Societies Shape Western Politics
(Religion/General)

...However, it is the manner in which secret societies have evolved and are currently deployed in America and Britain that is of prime concern for Africa and necessitates the creation -- or re-creation -...

20. Former bishop against blasphemy laws
(Religion/Enforced religion)

Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, is backing a new cross-party attempt by MPs to abolish Britain's blasphemy laws, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.Lord Carey argues that the existing