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

...bsp;   According to the Larson en Witham study of 1998, Dawkins shows in The God Delusion, similar figures and statistics are applicable to the Royal Society in Britain. Here top scientists bel...

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

... DVD deal with a bunch of Christian propagandists, the people who made Hansie and Faith like Potatoes. Go figure. You've got to give such distributors points for believing in freedom of speech (or...

3. Sarcasm Seen as Evolutionary Survival Skill
(Science/General)

...One guy says to the other, "Are we having fun yet?" and the other just looks blank and stops to figure out what in the world his pal meant by that remark. End of friendship, end of one guy&#...

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

...on on Darwin beginning in November. Dr Bob Bloomfield, head of special projects at the museum and a key figure in the "Darwin200" project, said he was concerned by the prevalence of creati...

5. Churchgoing on its knees as Christianity falls out of favour
(Religion/General)

... inter-faith group, said: "I think all faiths could be treated equally under our constitution. These figures demonstrate the absurdity of favouring one brand of Christianity over other parts of t...

6. Farmer makes miracles
(Religion/General)

... the first Mighty Men gathering five years ago 240 men turned up; 600 the next; then 1 060. Last year the figure rose to 7 400. Then came this year's mind-blowing 60 000 to 65 000. Buchan believ...

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

...ey will leave no descendants for subsequent generations. It isn't razzle-dazzle genius. Any idiot can figure that one out — and many idiots have. Farmers have known it for millennia, when th...

8. 'Jesus' cosmetic row in Singapore
(Religion/General)

... cream, featuring a picture of Christ flanked by two adoring women. "Why would anyone use religious figures to promote vanity products? It's very disrespectful and distasteful," the Str...

9. UK Measles cases jump to record high
(Science/General)

...le vaccine - which protects against rubella and mumps as well as measles - is perfectly safe. The latest figures show that there were 272 confirmed cases of measles in the final quarter of 2007, comp...

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

...year, when 116 people were killed by a suicide car bomber. They came a day after the Government published figures showing that 541 Iraqis were killed last month, a 23-month low continuing a downward t...

11. Numerology : Your number's up
(SA Media watch/Nonsense alert)

...rk environment. There was also a significant Scandinavian influence in my numbers. It took me a while to figure that one out. My best friend's surname is Scandinavian. She said my name denoted a...

12. Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women's rights
(Religion/Enforced religion)

... Yaqub Ibrahimi, is also a journalist and has written articles for IWPR in which he accused senior public figures, including an MP, of atrocities, including murders. He said: "Of course we are al...

13. New atheists or new anti-dogmatists?
(Religion/Atheism)

...h, very little social unrest and a near 100 per cent literacy rate. And while Sweden is the extreme, the figures show that liberal democracies with low levels of theistic belief tend to be have high ...

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

...zing nearby gadgets, such as computers or cars, pets, or by believing in supernatural events or religious figures. Pets and religion In their study, detailed in the February issue of the journal Psyc...

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

...fraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” Steven Wright thinks he’s figured out a solution: “I intend to live forever. So far, so good.” Humor aside,...

16. Worshiping at the Temple of Diana
(Religion/General)

...pose and robes suggestive of the Virgin Mary. He seemed to think that celebrities have replaced religious figures. Margaret Evans, a British researcher, studied tri­butes people left for Diana aft...

17. Lessons of Atheist Dictatorships
(Religion/Atheism)

...ed Poland (1945-1948) 1,585,000. West Pakistan (1958-87) E. Pakistan Hindus killed or expelled 1,503,000. Figures from Death by Government by Rudolph J. Rummel, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publis...

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

... fairly uncontroversial. The materialist thesis is simply: that's all there is to the world. Once we figure out the correct formal structure, patterns, boundary conditions, and interpretation, we...

19. Spate of Executions and Amputations in Iran
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...ities this week. In the first 10 days of January there have been 23 publicly disclosed executions. “Figures confirm that executions have increased in Iran,” Ms. Ebadi said in an interview....

20. Former bishop against blasphemy laws
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...et minister, and David Wilshire, a Conservative backbencher. As well as Lord Carey, they are supported by figures including Lord Harries of Pentregarth, the former Bishop of Oxford, in a letter in the...