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

... but also some leading religious scientists such as Francis Collins and John Polkinghome, propagate the NOMA-principle as formulated by the late Harvard palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould. According to...

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

...ome to mind. The National Policy on Religion in Education encompasses the following broad principles, and any school and principal or teacher ignoring or contravening these regulati...

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

...d that the rupture was due to growing contrast between Italian civil legislation and ”the irreversible principles of the Church”. According to the L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican...

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

...hts or any playground lesson on doing unto others as you'd like done unto you (which, incidentally, is a principle predating the canonical text that we quote so widely these days). Third, sometim...

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

South Africa is a country based on the rules and principles of God, said ANC president Jacob Zuma in Kempton Park on Thursday. The preamble of the constitution "calls upon God to help u

6. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

... deny the obvious.  Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle. The obvious must be observed and re-observed and argued for. This is a thankless...

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

...s to the politics of how humans ought to behave. I have several times said that a society based on Darwinian principles would be a very unpleasant society in which to live. I have several times said, ...

8. New Atheists Are Not Great
(Religion/General)

... Luther King Jr. on equal footing. D'Souza answers on behalf of Christianity. He describes how Christian principles of free choice and human dignity laid the groundwork for democratic political sy...

9. Atheism and Violence
(Religion/Atheism)

...ry of the better, the stronger, and to demand the submission of the worse and weaker. It embraces thereby in principle the aristocratic law of nature and believes in the validity of this law down to t...

10. 'Crime-solving' gadget on the way
(Science/Daniel Krugel)

..., about what some would say is hubris disguised as humility. Albert Einstein's reply to the Uncertainty Principle, trying to determine both the position and momentum of a particle, was that God d...

11. 'Crime-solving' gadget on the way
(Science/Daniel Krugel)

..., about what some would say is hubris disguised as humility. Albert Einstein's reply to the Uncertainty Principle, trying to determine both the position and momentum of a particle, was that God d...

12. New move to lift Turkey scarf ban
(Religion/General)

...d War I. It regards the public wearing of headscarves as a political statement aimed at undermining secular principles. 'Rights and freedoms' However, opinion polls suggest there is strong p...

13. Britain cannot put its faith in religiously divided schools
(Religion/Enforced religion)

... integration is preposterous. Even if faith schools were not divisive, they raise other important issues of principle which the Government has consistently refused to acknowledge or debate. All reli...

14. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

...el and Judith Smetana, preschoolers have an inkling of the difference between societal conventions and moral principles. Four-year-olds say that it is not O.K. to wear pajamas to school (a convention)...

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

...nd retreats. The attempt to link the weirdness of the quantum world (such as Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, which states that the more precisely you know a particle’s position, the l...

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

...e very nature of theology, and why its study is genuinely unnecessary for Christian faith to be rejected. In principle, one should be able to judge the alleged truths of Christianity based on the bibl...

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

... that the amount of information needed to express the world is dramatically less than the structure would in principle allow. (In a world described by a string of bits, we might for example find that ...

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

...o ruled ancient Egypt from 1500-1447 BCE, organised the first esoteric brotherhood of initiates founded upon principles and methods familiar to those perpetuated by the Rosicrucian Order today. &quot...

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

... of components, says Noubar Afeyan, CEO of Flagship Ventures. ``They're applying fundamental engineering principles to thinking about interchangeable parts and standard protocols,'' says A...

20. Devolution
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...re exceedingly unlikely. Behe and his followers now emphasize that, while irreducibly complex systems can in principle evolve, biologists can’t reconstruct in convincing detail just how any such...