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

...d its first serious, yet not the final fatal head wound, in the 19th century - a wound that gradually became septic through the revelations of modern genetics, geology, palaeontology, palaeoanthropolo...

2. The religious find a friend in the law
(Religion/Atheism)

...t's absurd of the ASA to have insisted on the word "probably". Imagine the uproar if it became a legal requirement to insert qualifications in religious statements – "God Prob...

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

...ion made its selections, our diets changed, our jaws grew appropriately smaller, and our third molars became unnecessary. Some human populations have now all but completely stopped growing wisdom teet...

4. Vatican rejects adoption of Italy's laws in historic shift
(Religion/General)

...nderstandable”. But he pointed out that the centre Right government of Silvio Berlusconi, which came to power in May, had a Minister for Simplification whose job was to eliminate over 36,000 l...

5. Who Started the War on Christmas?
(Religion/Atheism)

...nding, the Southern Poverty Law Center classified the journal as a “hate group.” VDare became the staging ground for the War on the War on Christmas. Unlike their more respectable count...

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

...type of Christian than those who run creationist museums or play-act crucifixions for the tourists' cameras. The Catholics have much practice at arguing with sceptics, developed over the 400 or 50...

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

...nishing of all is the tale of "the Uhlmann paper", or the "O'Leary paper". This came out in 2002 and claimed to have found evidence of vaccine measles virus in tissue samples f...

8. On a wing and a prayer
(Religion/Enforced religion)

.... "Reliance on prayer and miraculous healing abounded," he wrote. "Secular physicians became extinct. Chants, potions, horoscopes and amulets were widely used. Dissections of cadavers ...

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

...eo-Darwinist scientist and atheist campaigner. He put down a deposit of some £8,000, and the rest came from public contributions -- mostly from readers of The Guardian newspaper, in which the ca...

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

.... 'Religion protecting the ANC' "He [Zuma] was being burnt from all sides but the leaves became greener and greener." Pietermaritzburg High Court Judge Chris Nicholson invalidated co...

11. "Child-witches" of Nigeria seek refuge
(Religion/General)

...ed as witches. Gary Foxcroft, 29, programme director for the UK charity Stepping Stones, Nigeria, first came to the country in 2003 to research the oil industry for his masters degree. But he was so s...

12. Shofar Christian cult mobilizes in the Western Cape
(Religion/Shofar Shogood)

...bing information about this strange Christian sect called Shofar . The straw that broke that proverbial camel's back was when a fellow blogger informed me that he had had his website taken down by...

13. 'He said Satan told him to'
(Religion/General)

...utside the deserted school grounds that Satanic music was probably the cause of the attack. "He came here camouflaged as the guy from 'Slipknot'. We know the wrong kind of music, and d...

14. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

...re than its fair share. There is no society in recorded history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable. While most Americans believe that getting rid of religion is an impossible...

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

...iest and an acclaimed author whose memoir, “An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us” won a 1996 National Book Award, vehemently disagrees with the church on m...

16. Goblins in the cupboard
(Paranormal/General)

...rangement of celestial bodies a few hundred light years away, at the time of my birth. If, like me, you came bellowing into this world in late October or most of November, you're the bearer of gru...

17. Fossil reveals oldest live birth
(Science/General)

...develop their young inside eggs. Before this find, the earliest evidence for this form of reproduction came from reptile fossils dating to the Mesozoic Era (248 to 65 million years ago) The team sai...

18. Make Way for Superfrog
(Science/General)

...l after having the frequent misfortune of being injured by the amphibians while doing field research in Cameroon. "The frogs will start kicking and drag these claws against your skin," he sa...

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

...loved ones involved and ex-members who are in need of one form of help." The City of London police came under fire two years ago when it emerged that more than 20 officers, ranging from constable...

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

...he proclaimed from his pump pulpit. "These prices will come down, just like the walls of Jericho came down in the Bible," he said, as another chorus of amens punctuated the sound of cash f...

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

...ussion." Despite his categorical rejection of conventional religion, Brooke said that Einstein became angry when his views were appropriated by evangelists for atheism. He was offended by their...

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

...ially as some people genuinely believe a man was born of a virgin, performed miracles and then died and came back to life, while others believe that is a lot of insane, voodoo rubbish. He added: &qu...

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

...ing—is something called "interactional expertise". Collins spoke recently with ScientificAmerican.com about his view of expertise; what follows is an edited transcript of that intervie...

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

... public for fear of being killed by religious lunatics, threatening to sue another man in the same predicament over a copyright violation. But it is understandable that Westergaard wouldn't want t...

25. Farmer makes miracles
(Religion/General)

..., it could be deemed a miracle. From all parts of South Africa and various corners of the globe, they came to the Mighty Men's conference in the small KwaZulu-Natal town of Greytown last weekend...

26. If God Is Dead, Who Gets His House?
(Religion/General)

...quot;Mad Madalyn"—the pugnacious founder of American Atheists who disowned her son when he became a Baptist preacher and publicly pronounced it a "postnatal abortion." Angry and o...

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

...re do we think the toxic anti-Semitism of Hitler, and of the many Germans whose support gave him power, came from? You can't seriously think it came from Darwin. Anti-Semitism has been rife in Eur...

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

...he great gay myths, the chucking out of the teenager." After a degree in English literature, he became a BBC trainee (inventing the "T" to differentiate himself from a Radio 2 DJ). Som...

29. Cult leader Pyotr Kuznetsov tries suicide after realising he was wrong about doomsday
(Religion/General)

...stians and not cult members." Villagers said that the cult followers, who wear long black robes, came to Nikolskoye from other regions of Russia and even from Belarus. Police and local authorit...

30. Expelled!
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...to cause any trouble. I went back to my family and talked with them for a while, and then the officer came back with a theater manager, and I was told that not only wasn't I allowed in, but I ha...