1. Get out of here, atheists!
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...sponse from one legislator was unsurprising: she shrieked at the atheist to get out. Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) interrupted atheist activist Rob Sherman during his testimony Wednesday afternoon be...

2. Immune system differences found
(Science/General)

...ces in the behaviour of immune system genes - potentially affecting how people respond to infection. The Chicago University team looked at over 9,000 genes in 180 people, half Caucasian and half fro...

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

...view.com/local/story.asp?ID=233499&page=all and incorporates sources from The Washington Post and Chicago Tribune. The survey also lays out, just weeks before Pope Benedict XVI's first pa...

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

... it once was. Evolution, Hawks theorized, was making it more compact and efficient In 2005, University of Chicago geneticist Bruce Lahn reported that two "new" gene variations involved in b...

5. Atheism and Violence
(Religion/Atheism)

...kes, S.J., teaches theology at the University of St. Mary of the Lake, the seminary for the Archdiocese of Chicago. Reposted from : http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=961 ...

6. Loneliness Breeds Belief in Supernatural
(Religion/Atheism)

...nd "complete isolation or ostracism has been tantamount to a death sentence," said University of Chicago researcher Nicholas Epley, who led the study. While group living isn't critical...

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

... Shubin © 2008. Reprinted with permission by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc. Shubin, Chicago's Robert R. Bensley professor, chair and associate dean for Organismal Biology &a...