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

...an immediately be answered with a direct no and yes respectively.   No, there is no single reason today to continue believing or to have to believe in God. For that, science has since Copernicu...

2. Faith-healing parents charged in death of infant son
(Religion/Enforced religion)

... needed medical care. As parents, that's what your duty is, and that's why you are here in court today." The Schaibles' case is similar to a growing number around the country in whic...

3. Leading vaccine scaremonger debunked
(Medicine/General)

...ht along to the pediatrician’s office and presented as the the plan going forward for many parents today. But the book is also dangerous in the way in which it validates the pervasive myths that...

4. Origin of the Specious: Race, lies and stereotypes in Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy
(Religion/General)

Creationism is not the only enemy of science in today’s classroom. Within the self proclaimed “fastest growing school movement in the world”, Steiner Waldorf schools foster their bel

5. It's not what the papers say, it's what they don't
(Medicine/General)

..., between themselves, so robustly that it might almost be a conspiracy, to give you only half the facts. Today, I have merely given you some small part of the other half, and next week I will move on:...

6. "Atheist bus" more like a bandwagon on highway to hell
(Religion/Atheism)

...ed infant's young life has been taken as an all-too-accurate indictment of an aspect of British life today. That is a life without moral parameters; in which fathers walk away from their children...

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

...stern Nigeria, sleeping rough, struggling to stay alive. Mary was found by a British charity worker and today lives at a refuge in Akwa Ibom province with 150 other children who have been branded wit...

8. 'He said Satan told him to'
(Religion/General)

...several masks identical to those worn by the band Slipknot. He reportedly told his friends that "today is the day" and tried to convince them to join him in a Satanic-like ritual. Wear...

9. How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results
(Science/General)

...tism continues to be diagnosed in children born after thimerosal was removed from most vaccines in 1999; today trace amounts exist in only a few. The reason for this cognitive disconnect is that we ...

10. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

...ve become a continuous source of human conflict. Indeed, religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it was at any time in the past. The recent conflicts in Palestine (Jews versus Muslims...

11. Movie : Constantine's Sword
(Religion/General)

...tory of religious intolerance to life, tracing it as a source of the fanaticism that threatens the world today. At its core, Constantine’s Sword is a compelling personal narrative — a kind...

12. Blair does God in interview to launch inter-faith foundation
(Religion/General)

Tony Blair declares today that he wants to devote the rest of his life to promoting understanding between the world's religions as he recalls how his Christian faith gave him the strength as prim

13. Goblins in the cupboard
(Paranormal/General)

...ere disease and pestilence could blindside us. In the mid-1500s Earth was gripped by a cold spell known today as the Little Ice Age. It was an entirely natural swing, but it devastated Europe. Withou...

14. Fossil reveals oldest live birth
(Science/General)

...d only evolved to reproduce using externally fertilised eggs - a primitive version of the way fish spawn today. Now, however, the team believes this ancient species bore live young through internal f...

15. Car dealership advert tells atheists to 'shut up'
(Religion/General)

...s: "Kieffe & Sons Ford on Sierra Highway in Mojave and Rosamond… If we don't see you today, by the grace of God, we'll be here tomorrow." The advert, which makes no ment...

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

...t it separates members from their families and indoctrinates followers. A spokeswoman for the force said today: "City of London police had received complaints about demonstrators using the words ...

17. Churchgoing on its knees as Christianity falls out of favour
(Religion/General)

...f regular churchgoers will be fewer than those attending mosques within a generation, research published today suggests. The fall - from the four million people who attend church at least once a mon...

18. Anti-Evolution Film Misappropriates the Holocaust
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

New York, NY, April 29, 2008 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today issued the following statement regarding the controversial film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. The film Expelled: No In

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

... grandeur of its secular cathedral, Ethical Culture peaked at maybe 6,000 members, with only about 3,000 today. Now, once again, nonbelievers have a fresh sense of mission. The fastest-growing faith...

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

...anti-Semitism. For example, here is a typical quotation, from the end of Chapter 2 of Mein Kampf. Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defend...

21. Local council in shock challenge to Catholic dogma
(Good news/Humour)

In an unprecedented victory for rationalism, Catholic priests in the north east of England will from today be required to read out a disclaimer prior to delivering the holy sacrament of Communion. T

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

... Tony Snow, former press secretary for President George W. Bush. Reposted from : http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/march/25.79.html?start=2 ...

23. More Americans leaving religious ties of their youth
(Religion/General)

... percent. America has always been very religiously vibrant, said Pew political scientist John Green, but today there are more options, more "things you can move from and to." Fred Kurth, a r...

24. Study: Religion colors Americans' views of nanotechnology
(Religion/General)

...ent survey of Americans' attitudes about the science of the very small. Addressing scientists here today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dietram...

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

...On the Origin of Species, Darwin made two claims: that there is continuity of species, with each species today being descendants of prior ones, and that natural selection is the mechanism by which spe...

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

...awn up as a secular document, and that the Founding Fathers might not be well pleased with what they saw today were they to come down from heaven — presumably their current abode. The American s...

27. Sprinting down the evolutionary highway
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...xtremely short.   "That's how long it's been since some of these genes originated, and today they're in 30 or 40 per cent of people," said Hawks. "What we are catching ...

28. Atheism and Violence
(Religion/Atheism)

...enly admitted that no evil is greater than that committed under the guise of religion. If he were living today, I am sure his response to Harris would be: yes, Mr. Harris, you’re right, and the ...

29. Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women's rights
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...ash; being allowed legal representation and sentenced to death. The Independent is launching a campaign today to secure justice for Mr Kambaksh. The UN, human rights groups, journalists' organisa...

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

...olicies of Christian churches in the US, religious dogmas are alive and kicking and at work in the world today. Reason and evidence and empiricism and science and liberal democracy - in short, the fo...