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

... “Every learner, teacher and worker will get a yellow ribbon on Monday to wear for the whole week (totally voluntary). The idea is that everyone will shine their light for Jesus.” (Elke le...

2. Science is just one gene away from defeating religion
(Religion/Atheism)

...e civilised. But inevitably, Richard H claimed for religion a territory that science can never invade, a totally safe sanctuary for Christian fieldmice. Science is brilliant at questions that start &q...

3. God will, in fact, be mocked
(Religion/Atheism)

...ce of literal truths and facts. See the guy who runs a creationist museum and how he looks at Maher with total hatred, just for asking a few obvious questions. And Maher doesn't even ask him about...

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

...ve births - it contained three embryos. Professor Lane said: "After we saw this, we realised we had totally nailed it, everyone was convinced that this creature bore live young." Until the ...

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

...es, with an average of 35 worshippers each. The next Archbishop after that could find his position "totally nonviable", the report says, with just 180,000 worshippers in 6,000 churches by 20...

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

...for life" but Darwin was using the word "race" in a very different sense from ours. It is totaly clear, if you read past the title to the book itself, that a "favoured race" m...

7. Lots of water 'is little benefit'
(Medicine/General)

... standard US recommendation of "8x8" - eight glasses, each containing eight ounces of water (a total of 1.8litres), a day. They wrote: "There is no clear evidence of benefit from drink...

8. UK Measles cases jump to record high
(Science/General)

...eaks in nurseries and schools. Most of the measles cases (79%) were in children under the age of 15. A total of 90 cases were among children under one, 312 were in one to four-year-olds and 237 case...

9. Why multiculturalism must be abandoned
(Religion/General)

...nt? The argument that women will only have to enter these courts if they freely choose to shows a near-total disconnection from the reality of Muslim women's lives. Most of the women who will be...

10. Atheism and Violence
(Religion/Atheism)

...extreme radicalization of the Old Testament prohibition of images, he speaks of a “longing for the totally Other” that remains inaccessible—a cry of yearning directed at world histor...

11. Homeopathy gives you Aids
(Medicine/Homeopathy)

...S-epidemic in Africa, the UK-homeopath Peter Chappell discovered a method to design remedies fitting the totality of a disease. These remedies are now known as PC-remedies.” In case you’re...

12. Banned From Church
(Religion/General)

...otestant evangelical churches practice church discipline -- about 14,000 to 21,000 U.S. congregations in total. Increasingly, clashes within churches are spilling into communities, splitting congregat...

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

...ing science and religion, the findings were eagerly awaited by members of both communities. There were a total of 1,802 patients from six U.S. hospitals that were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 groups: 6...

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

...he same change in the bacteria’s genes that they saw in their human patient. What they found makes total sense, once we know our history. They were able to simulate parts of a human mitochondria...

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

...y Steinhardt and Turok, our universe is a three-brane (three spatial dimensions, evolving in time, for a total of four spacetime dimensions) embedded in a background five-dimensional spacetime. Motion...

16. Devolution
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...evolution will just as happily destroy the eye. Species of fish and crustaceans that have moved into the total darkness of caves, where eyes are both unnecessary and costly, often have degenerate eyes...