1. Child sacrifice and ritual murders rise in Uganda as famine looms
(Religion/General)

...arliament to pass a specific law to help us fight these crimes." Government officials have warned that perceived police inaction over the ritual murders could lead to political instability as mob...

2. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

...ntellectual and a moral failing. Only the atheist has realized this. The atheist is simply a person who has perceived the lies of religion and refused to make them his own. Reposted from : http://www...

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

...in a community talking about color. So we thought color-blind people should be indistinguishable from color-perceivers when asked questions by a color-perceiver who knew what was going on. And we demo...

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

...versies, renders one fact about our world especially salient: Muslims appear to be far more concerned about perceived slights to their religion than about the atrocities committed daily in its name. O...

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

...orsemen have only started the journey. Atheism's great awakening is in need of a doctrine. "People perceive us as only rejecting things," says Ken Bronstein, the president of a local gro...

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

"And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the horn, and the mountain smoking." Thus the book of Exodus describes the impressive moment of the giving

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

...an autism link—seem more concrete than the disease itself. How do medical authorities overcome these perceived risks? Simply speaking from a position of authority isn't enough, Schuchat arg...

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

...In spite of the lucid piece by Professor Hawking above, I still do not understand cosmology, although I now perceive that the universe is somehow held together with string. I do know, however, that th...

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

... was how the wife suddenly developed a passionate hatred for her husband. "According to what I could perceive, the devil was present and acting in an obvious way," he said. "How else ...

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

...ty, similar to the ravages of stroke and Alzheimer’s disease, only final. Because the brain does not perceive itself, it imputes mental activity to a separate source — hallucinations of p...

11. Lessons of Atheist Dictatorships
(Religion/Atheism)

... Pakistan[1]). One could find many things these latter regimes had in common—radical nationalism, the perceived need to eliminate the enemy--but one thing they definitely did not have in common ...

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

...efining ''God.'' I will take it to mean some being who is not bound by the same patterns we perceive in the universe, who is by our standards extremely powerful (not necessarily omnipo...

13. Researchers use neuroimaging to study ESP
(Paranormal/General)

...hat because the brain enables perception and stores information -- even events people don't consciously perceive or information they can't consciously remember -- it can offer a much more comp...