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

...hat can be answered adequately without a consideration of evolution. But the importance of this concept goes far beyond biology. The thinking of modern humans, whether we realize it or not, is profoun...

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

...mmunion during which wine would have been substituted by grape juice or other cool drinks. And so it goes on. Only because parents from a secular world view complained about this open contravention...

3. Who Started the War on Christmas?
(Religion/Atheism)

...ranks and evangelical moralists, the War on Christmas has become an annual outrage. The story typically goes as follows: secular elements have intimidated stores into replacing the phrase “Merry...

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

...ecause she feared they would be killed. The police are called but locals offer them no help. Mr Itauma goes to the village to try and convince the locals to accept the daughters' return, but the ...

5. Shofar Christian cult mobilizes in the Western Cape
(Religion/Shofar Shogood)

...to do a little more investigation and what I have found out scares the heck outta me. This cult activly goes around to pubs and clubs, harassing and recruiting vulnerable lonely youth for sect. The mo...

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

... I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst can...

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

... search for faint ripples in the fabric of spacetime. He's learned the hard way about the work that goes into acquiring specialized scientific knowledge. In a recent book, Rethinking Expertise, he...

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

...s, hierarchies, rituals, money, clerics, and some version of a heavenly afterlife. Churches fill needs, goes the argument—they inculcate ethics, give meaning, build communities. "Science an...

9. View from the lab: creationism
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...int? Or was it God's wrath at my being elected Secularist of the Year? I'd choose a surgeon who goes for the first theory every time. What's interesting about Islamic creationism is how li...

10. Exorcism undergoes a revival across Europe
(Religion/General)

POCZERNIN, Poland - This wind-swept village is bracing for an invasion of demons, thanks to a priest who believes he can defeat Satan. The Rev. Andrzej Trojanowski, a soft-spoken Pole, plans to buil

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

... withering in his criticism of the ancient theology and modern "New Age" waffle that so often goes with them. What we need, argues Harris, is to take a ruthlessly logical and scientific appr...

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

...hem thought it would be stimulating to have a debate on the topic. Michael read Deepak’s book and goes first in the debate, offering his assessment of the “proofs” presented in Deepa...

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

...ose broadcasting the Lord's Prayer over and over again three times a day. "If this application goes forward then a large number of angry people are poised to form an opposition to it." E...

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

...h the sperm cord. The cord leaves the scrotum, travels up toward the waist, loops over the pelvis, then goes through the pelvis to travel through the penis and out. Along this complex path, the sperm ...

15. 2007 Darwin Awards - winners announced
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

In first place : "What goes up must come down."   (20 June 2007, South Carolina) A passing cabbie found a 21 year-old couple Znaked and injured in the road an hour before sunrise.

16. Are the 'New Atheists' avoiding the 'real arguments'?
(Religion/Atheism)

...k and proudly proclaims acceptance of these ideas on the basis of 'faith' as a virtue, and then goes on to attempt to make these a priori beliefs appear intelligible and rational. In other wor...

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

...d be dramatically altered (R.N. Cahn, 1996, Rev. Mod. Phys. 68, 951). We could imagine (so the argument goes) values for which hydrogen were the only stable element, or for which no carbon was formed ...

18. Secret Societies Shape Western Politics
(Religion/General)

...today's politics and the implications of their existence for countries like Zimbabwe. But the book goes further and makes a daring suggestion; that it is time Africa started creating such power s...

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

...y, a biological engineering professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. ``The list goes on and on and on and on.''      Synthetic biology builds on the...

20. Devolution
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

... the image of God "one of the bedrock principles on which Western civilization was built." It goes on to decry the catastrophic legacy of Darwin, Marx, and Freud—the alleged fathers of...