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

...d" by powerful religious leaders at extremist churches where Christianity and traditional beliefs have combined to produce a deep-rooted belief in, and fear of, witchcraft. The priests spread the...

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

...ops and domesticating animals, the move led to dietary changes and to settled habitats in specific regions. Combined, they ignited a surge in human numbers. Far from slowing down, it appears that, whe...

3. Robots Evolve And Learn How to Lie
(Good news/All)

...p randomly and to move randomly when they sensed light. To create the next generation of robots, Floreano recombined the genes of those that proved fittest—those that had managed to get the bigg...

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

...rdquo; that connect all living organisms to one another. Information cannot be created or destroyed, only recombined into new patterns, so our personal patterns — our “souls” by my d...

5. Why (Almost All) Cosmologists are Atheists
(Religion/Atheism)

... particles orbiting far around it is inevitably much larger than we would expect by taking into account the combined mass of all the visible material in the galaxy. A straightforward and popular hypot...

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

...#39;      Genes from one type of microbe that digests wild grasses, for example, may be combined with those from another organism that excretes ethanol.      In...

7. Devolution
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

... arise without the intervention of a designing mind. According to Darwinism, evolution largely reflects the combined action of random mutation and natural selection. A random mutation in an organism, ...