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

...ation, etc. Volcanoes erupting, earthquakes rattling the planet, hurricanes and tornadoes blindly wiping out thousands of lives a day. Is it unfair to call these things the nasties, what is blithely r...

2. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

...der the destruction that Hurricane Katrina leveled on New Orleans. More than a thousand people died, tens of thousands lost all their earthly possessions, and nearly a million were displaced. It is sa...

3. Evolutionarily Preserved Signature Found In The Primate Brain
(Science/General)

...the products of genes (RNA) obtained from the brain of each animal were hybridized to microarrays containing thousands of DNA clones coding for thousands of genes. The authors also investigated DNA se...

4. Put a Little Science in Your Life
(Science/General)

... out beyond the stars. Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings. Science ...

5. Teacher tortures, kills boy
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...e cause of death. Pakistan's 13 000 registered madrassas offer free schooling and board to hundreds of thousands of poor children in this devout nation, but some have also been linked to Islamic...

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

...lege London, are involved in a mass science project to study changes in banded snails, by recruiting tens of thousands of people across Europe. Professor Jones said religious students – even t...

7. Sharon Stone blames China's earthquake on karma
(Religion/General)

Hollywood actress Sharon Stone has suggested that the Chinese earthquake which claimed tens of thousands of lives may be "karma". The Basic Instinct star believes the disaster may be paybac

8. Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
(Religion/General)

...emerged that more than 20 officers, ranging from constable to chief superintendent, had accepted gifts worth thousands of pounds from the Church of Scientology. The City of London Chief Superintendent...

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

...ccounts for the diversity of life on Earth and vaccines do not cause autism. But the collective expertise of thousands of researchers barely registers with global warming skeptics, creationist movie p...

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

...ewspaper, magazine, and television station in the United States. Given their volcanic reception--hundreds of thousands of Muslims rioted, hundreds of people were killed--their sheer banality should ha...

11. Russell T Davies: Return of the (tea) Time Lord
(Good news/Humour)

...still rare, but it has started. If there is one kid now doing that, then in 10 years' time there will be thousands of kids, and 10 years after that, every kid who wants to will be doing that. Isn&...

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

...be a modern, welcoming facility, backed by medical, psychiatric and dietitian support. She flew to Sydney, thousands of kilometres away from her family and friends, and entered the live-in program. ...

13. Immune system differences found
(Science/General)

...sed gene chip array technology, which uses a microscope to analyse a specialised slide capable of containing thousands of genes derived from blood cells. Sixty nuclear families, each including a mot...

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

...h as losing a job or divorce, claims the study presented to a Royal Economic Society conference. Data from thousands of Europeans revealed higher levels of "life satisfaction" in believers...

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

...ination efforts have saved the US $43 billion and prevented 1.8 million cases that would have led to tens of thousands of deaths. Despite the lack of evidence for harm, however, vaccines are getting t...

16. Turkey in radical revision of Islamic texts
(Religion/General)

...revision of the Hadith, the second most sacred text in Islam after the Koran. The Hadith is a collection of thousands of sayings reputed to come from the Prophet Muhammad. As such, it is the princip...

17. Western trials 'no good'
(Science/General)

...ot against clinical trials per se. "But some of the medicines have been used by traditional healers for thousands of years. Clinical trials need protocols for traditional medicine." She als...

18. Atheism and Violence
(Religion/Atheism)

...ledge today, we godless anti-metaphysicians, still take our fire, too, from the flame lit by a faith that is thousands of years old, that Christian faith which was also the faith of Plato, that God is...

19. The Catholic Church's devillish practice of exorcism
(Religion/General)

...undertake a new campaign to unleash a fresh batch of four hundred exorcists on the world, in addition to the thousands already in operation. “Thank God,” he said, “we have a Pope who...

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

...im that the soul is real and eternal: Near-Death Experiences and Altered States of Consciousness. There are thousands of people who have been pronounced dead, usually from heart attacks, who are subs...