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

...ll bring great prosperity.  "Cases of child sacrifice have always existed, mainly in the Ugandan central region, but there is a new strain of traditional healers in Uganda and their geograph...

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

...ne huge omission: that “anthroposophy” guides their every move, and that anthroposophy’s central tenet is “racial hierarchies”. Racist? No wonder they need to hide it. Bu...

3. Blair does God in interview to launch inter-faith foundation
(Religion/General)

...h gave him the strength as prime minister to take tough decisions. In his most detailed description of the central role of faith during his decade in Downing Street, the former prime minister says rel...

4. Goblins in the cupboard
(Paranormal/General)

...ogist Brian Fagan -- and 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 w...

5. Citing Faith, Bush Defends War Actions
(Religion/General)

.... Bush cast the stakes in stark terms, repeatedly invoking his desire to spread freedom and democracy, the central themes of his foreign policy. Those themes are hardly new to American presidents. Woo...

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

...But godlessness can be a little scary, even for an atheist. Ethical Culture's imposing 1910 edifice on Central Park speaks to its patrons' wealth, as well as their concern that society might f...

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

...ve to make this really, really simple for the "Hitler was an evolutionist" dimwits. There is a central, incredibly obvious fact in Darwin's insight. If members of a population die or...

8. They prayed to cast Satan from my body
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...almost from the moment she arrived she began to struggle. Sitting in the courtyard of a cafe in a large, central Queensland town, as storm clouds gathered above, she told her story in a soft, quiet ...

9. Hatred and Ignorance on the Web
(Religion/General)

...aced at all, if he was going to die?” An analysis of Islam will highlight the reasons, my dear. The central tenet of Jesus is his divinity – the Truth behind this, just as finding the HIS...

10. Turkey in radical revision of Islamic texts
(Religion/General)

...9;s vast interior. One of the women, Hulya Koc, looked out over a sea of headscarves at a town meeting in central Turkey and told the women of the equality, justice and human rights guaranteed by an ...

11. Ultra-Orthodox press digitally erases women from images
(Religion/General)

...a is still considerably wary of publishing women’s photographs, even when the women in question play central and prominent roles in newsworthy events. The ultra-Orthodox press, bound by strict l...

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

...should not reject. Suuronen and her colleagues -- the project was run jointly with the Helsinki University Central Hospital -- isolated stem cells from the patient's fat and grew them for two week...

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

...n’s syndrome. The first woman was blown up in the bird section of the popular al-Ghazl pet market in central Baghdad soon after 10am, killing at least 50 people, injuring scores more and leaving...

14. Atheism and Violence
(Religion/Atheism)

...perience. For like a “red thread” running through all their other arguments, each book has one central claim: Belief in God causes violence. The obvious corollary to this thesis is almost ...

15. Krugel: 'Maddie lies here'
(Science/Daniel Krugel)

...er," he said. The locator While he is currently working as the director of health and safety at the Central University of Technology of the Free State, Danie Krugel (right) is also trying to pa...

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

...ecessary barriers to the creation of new faith schools", to give such schools additional funding from central government and to encourage fee-paying religious schools to join the state sector. I...

17. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

...ible so long as it is freely done . . . repugnance may be the only voice left that speaks up to defend the central core of our humanity. Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder.&rdquo...

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

...n as a dreamy-eyed photographer trying to make sense of an apparently senseless universe, the film’s central tenet is that we create our own reality through consciousness and quantum mechanics. ...

19. Loudspeaker plan re-ignites 'call to prayer' row
(Religion/Enforced religion)

... Residents are opposed to plans to sound the two-minute long call three times a day in the minaret of the Central Mosque. But elders from the Central Mosque, where up to 700 people gather to worship ...

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

...nd throat contract in a well-defined order. Consequently, this part of the brain stem is known as a “central pattern generator.” This region can produce rhythmic patterns of nerve and, con...

21. Confessions of a Former Iridologist
(Medicine/General)

... actually a nerve sheath containing over 20,000 nerve fibers. Each of the nerve fibers travels through the central nervous system to every organ, system and area of the human body. As such, each regio...

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

...bsp;  ``Engineered biological agents could be worse than any disease known to man,'' the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency said in a 2003 report.       &nbsp...

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

...ways that link the brain and base of the spinal cord. Now, for the first time, a UCLA study shows that the central nervous system can reorganize itself and follow new pathways to restore the cellular ...

24. Matter Orientation System (MOS)
(Science/Daniel Krugel)

... The “inventor,” a former police colonel named Daniel Krugel, head of security service at the Central University of Technology in Bloemfontein, seems shy about commenting on the Madeleine...

25. About Sceptic SA
(Static Content)

...rs and other similar institutions. · To organise and present an annual scientific conference with a central theme. · To enhance public awareness of the value of science and to instill an...