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

...land. In Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast – The Evolutionary Origins of Belief Wolpert examines the exposure Alice experiences to the irrational thinking of the White Queen. Alice ...

2. Stop missionary work in schools
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...ers. He says that, in reality, schools use teaching time to promote one religion over another by, for example, praying to a particular god during a lesson or sticking only Bible verses on classroom ...

3. Faith-healing parents charged in death of infant son
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...ia home, the pastor called a funeral director to take the boy's remains to the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office. At no time that day, nor in the week-and-a-half prior, did Herbert and ...

4. Leading vaccine scaremonger debunked
(Medicine/General)

... believe that certain vaccines protect the community but not the individual child. He gives polio as an example, stating that the risk of polio is zero, and that therefore the vaccine does not protect...

5. Public schools flout national laws on religious instruction
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...ation to influence pliable and vulnerable children in South Africa. Three schools are examples of this pressure on children to participate in Christian religious ceremonies, but we h...

6. Science is just one gene away from defeating religion
(Religion/Atheism)

...ling of DNA as for Rutherford's splitting of the atom. One day, scrawled on the wall, was a supreme example of Cambridge graffiti: "CRICK FOR GOD".  No surprise that pivotal advanc...

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

...al characteristics. And one can only understand all that is spiritual in the correct sense if one first examines how this spiritual element operates within people precisely through the colour of their...

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

...y are cold, frightened, angry, or in awe. Many other creatures get goose bumps for the same reason, for example this is why a cat or dog’s hair stands on end and the cause behind a porcupine&rsq...

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

... October by Pope Benedict XVI and comes into force on 1 January 2009, all Italian laws would be closely examined by the Vatican from now on before being adopted as part of the Holy See’s own leg...

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

...was published by Hviid and Melbye in the December 1 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. They examined 871,234 children in a Danish birth cohort, comparing asthma in those who had MMR agains...

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

...of the human body. Medical research came to a standstill." I know, that's probably an extreme example, but the point is that modern medicine has raised the average life expectancy of people ...

12. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

...t it would feel uncommonly good to believe this. Just imagine what would happen if he then followed the example of religious moderates and maintained this belief along pragmatic lines: When asked why ...

13. Evolutionarily Preserved Signature Found In The Primate Brain
(Science/General)

... in the brain. Many more obvious gender differences have been preserved throughout primate evolution; examples include average body size and weight, and genitalia design. This study, believed to be ...

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

... Jews: A History,” does about as good a job as you could hope of distilling a 750-page historical examination of religious zealotry and power into 95 swift minutes. Because the book was publishe...

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

A fossil fish uncovered in Australia is the oldest-known example of a mother giving birth to live young, scientists have reported in the journal Nature. The 380 million-year-old specimen has been pre

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

...quot; by teaching the subject. "They want permission not to come to those lectures and sit those exam questions," he said. "I have been teaching genetics and evolutionary biology for ...

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

...the boxes in which popular polemicists like to pigeonhole him," said Brooke. "It is clear for example that he had respect for the religious values enshrined within Judaic and Christian tradi...

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

...hat concern the public are at the cutting edge—the place where things are not completely certain. Examples are the safety of vaccines, the true importance of global warming, the effects of farmi...

19. Trouble ahead for science
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...closed-minded scientific elite supposedly behind it. There are many things wrong with this movie. One example: Viewers are told that Dr. Richard Sternberg lost his job at the Smithsonian Institution...

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

... expression of amazement by offering to pay me a "kill fee." I declined. I could list other examples of encounters with editors and publishers, as can many writers, all illustrating a sing...

21. Religion a figment of human imagination
(Religion/General)

...f the Stone Age. At around the same time, tools that had been monotonously primitive since the earliest examples appeared 100,000 years earlier suddenly exploded in sophistication, art began appearing...

22. Darwin's Nemesis by William Dembski
(Book reviews/Reviews)

...s are not irreducibly complex – they do not come about suddenly, or in one fell swoop.” The examples given of irreducible complexity are not irreducible at all. To summarise: ID is an ide...

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

...streaming atheism in a nation that is still overwhelmingly religious and, in the process, catalyzed a reexamination of atheistic raison d'être. But for some atheist foot soldiers, this curre...

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

...vy responsibility for what happened. And Hitler himself used religion to justify his anti-Semitism. For example, here is a typical quotation, from the end of Chapter 2 of Mein Kampf. Hence today I be...

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

...uences and can shape the generation-by-generation passage of hereditary traits in populations, and that examination of the natural world reveals that it has been doing exactly that. He realized that u...

26. Faith healing church parents charged over toddler's death
(Religion/Enforced religion)

... March. The toddler died of bronchial pneumonia and a blood infection, according to the state medical examiner's office - both conditions that could have been treated with antibiotics. The par...

27. Hebrew University researcher: Moses was tripping at Mount Sinai
(Religion/General)

...in people's consciousness. There are other stories in the Bible that mention the use of plants: for example, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden." Shanon, form...

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

... measure of disorder – i.e.: the displacement that universal-matter has to tend toward chaos. For example, opening a bottle of perfume, the particles rush out and dissolve. Instead of remaining ...

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

... new Pew poll. Pew's survey also includes a basic sketch of each state's religious profile. For example, compared with national percentages, Virginia has relatively more white evangelicals and...

30. Getting the public to pay attention to good science
(Science/General)

...ed the problems the public has in terms of receiving decent numerical information. Bialik cited various examples of news stories that pushed numbers with phony precision, originated from invalid sampl...