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

... public only accept the view of scientists when it does not clash with their own beliefs where does that leave science?   One example: when scientists are called to testify about their findings...

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

...out the French and their medical prowess? The point, Jacob Zuma, is that we don't need pious school leavers; we need ones who are developing razor-keen skills so that they can keep this country o...

3. SA a country of God - Zuma
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...n judgment. 'Religion protecting the ANC' "He [Zuma] was being burnt from all sides but the leaves became greener and greener." Pietermaritzburg High Court Judge Chris Nicholson inva...

4. Religious sect 'brainwashing' Maties
(Religion/Shofar Shogood)

...perstition into lecture halls, despite the findings of science. "That so many Stellenbosch students leave their baloney detectors outside the classroom — is no good advertisement for what s...

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

...e auctioned this week in London after being in a private collection for more than 50 years, the document leaves no doubt that the theoretical physicist was no supporter of religious beliefs, which he ...

6. Religious ban upsets community
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...enforced by izinduna (headmen). Whoever ignored it was called to a tribal court to be fined or forced to leave the area. A local induna, Joe Shandu, declined to comment, demanding that he be given na...

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

...e complexity” (p 69). This makes their position even more vulnerable because this train of thought leaves everything to chance or the laws of nature, and only in some cases does biological compl...

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

...ibly obvious fact in Darwin's insight. If members of a population die or are killed off, they will leave no descendants for subsequent generations. It isn't razzle-dazzle genius. Any idiot c...

9. Psychic crackdown on the cards
(Paranormal/General)

...ientific experiment, the results of which cannot be guaranteed'. They claim the new regulations will leave them open to malicious civil action by sceptics. The problem is that very little in the m...

10. Cult leader Pyotr Kuznetsov tries suicide after realising he was wrong about doomsday
(Religion/General)

...llage of Nikolskoye, 435 miles southeast of Moscow, to help the authorities to persuade his followers to leave the cave amid fears that it was collapsing. Mr Kuznetsov was found with a head wound in a...

11. Expelled!
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...cer came back with a theater manager, and I was told that not only wasn't I allowed in, but I had to leave the premises immediately. Like right that instant. I complied. I'm still laughing...

12. They prayed to cast Satan from my body
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...d the live-in program. Nine months later she was expelled, a devastated, withdrawn child who could not leave her bedroom, let alone her house. Nine months without medical treatment, nine months wi...

13. Religion 'linked to happy life'
(Religion/General)

...due to the meaning, purpose and value which believing in God gives you, whereas not believing in God can leave you without those things."   Reposted from : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/...

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

...“fuck islam” as well as its antithesis “if fuck islam is not shutdown, we are going to leave Facebook”. Firstly, who the “fuck” cares? If you leave Facebook, big de...

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

...illing to say nearly anything (see infomercials for further evidence), these disagreements are likely to leave the public confused over where to find credible scientific information. Separating the sc...

16. Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?
(Science/General)

...rly two-thirds of Americans want creationism to be taught along with evolution. Ms. Jacoby doesn't leave liberals out of her analysis, mentioning the New Left's attacks on universities in th...

17. US military accused of harboring fundamentalism
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...tarted there when he would not pray in the mess hall. "A senior ranking staff sergeant told me to leave and sit somewhere else because I refused to pray," Hall, a 23-year-old US army speci...

18. What would Darwin have made of the Human Genome Project?
(Science/General)

... In the cruel natural world the unfortunate carriers of such genetic mutations die out before they can leave any descendants. And over the long term this leaves a footprint in the genome - a region ...

19. Good people doing evil things
(Religion/General)

... New Orleans. Dawkins uses the biblical story of Lot to show that the idea of goodness being proffered leaves much to be desired. This patriarch offered his daughters' virginity rather than have...

20. Female Muslim medics 'disobey hygiene rules'
(Religion/General)

...that some students would prefer to quit the course rather than expose their arms, and warn that it could leave trusts open to legal action. Hygiene experts said last night that no exceptions should ...

21. Alarmist TV Drama on Autism and Vaccination
(Medicine/General)

...k about all of it, which we did,” he said. But the script also takes several liberties that could leave viewers believing that the debate over thimerosal — which in the program’s sc...

22. Banned From Church
(Religion/General)

...d to Michigan last June, she drove the two miles to Allen Baptist as usual. A church member asked her to leave, saying she was not welcome, but Mrs. Caskey told him she had come to worship and asked i...

23. Violence fear over Islam film
(Religion/General)

...cal parties to restart a debate on immigration that has split Dutch society in recent years, rather than leave the field to extremists. Wilders announced his plans last November, saying he was making...

24. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

...oes not entail that people are calculating maximizers of their genes or self-interest. But where does it leave the concept of morality itself? Here is the worry. The scientific outlook has taught us ...

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

...on-psi? As it is said, the invisible and the nonexistent look the same. Middle Land So where does this leave us? I am, by temperament, a sanguine person, so I really hate to douse the flame of that ...

26. I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help Fashions
(Medicine/Self Help)

...blem-solving techniques. Precisely how each group, tribe, or subculture is affected by these phenomena I leave to poststructural scholars to decide. I'm not assuming, however, that self-help movem...

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

...s to insects. Even more recently, as primates, we were active tree-living animals, feeding on fruits and leaves. Early humans were active hunter-gatherers and, ultimately, agriculturalists. Did you no...

28. God spoke to me
(Religion/General)

...In 2006, he incorrectly predicted that “the outcome of the war and the success of the economy will leave the Republicans in charge.” VidPost ...