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

...efore breakfast,” she tells Alice.   In the last decade of the 20th century some scientists tried to link religion to a possible genetic trait. Yet, today there is still no scientific evi...

2. Shofar Christian cult mobilizes in the Western Cape
(Religion/Shofar Shogood)

...t pissed? Fairs fair right? Since the damaging days of the Dark Age, mankind in enlightened cultures has tried to seperate religion from as many aspects of public life as possible. We learnt in the Da...

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

...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. Wearing his mask, he then alleg...

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

...n Wigmore. In fact, chlorophyll cannot 'detoxify the body' because it is not absorbed." I tried wheatgrass juice at the Oh Happy Days natural food store in Altadena, Calif., as part of ...

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

...ng in Tottenham Court Road which is policed by a separate force, the Metropolitan police, who have never tried to stop us using the word cult. "We're completely peaceful protesters expressing...

6. Atheists are nice people who will roast in hell, says Cardinal
(Religion/Atheism)

...t; The Cardinal's lecture follows clashes over stem cell research and gay rights, where the church tried to impose laws based on a 2000 year-old book written by people who stoned each other to d...

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

... to humans. He was probably even more ignorant of natural selection than Ben Stein evidiently is. Hitler tried to apply ARTIFICIAL selection to humans, and there is nothing specifically Darwinian abou...

8. Cult leader Pyotr Kuznetsov tries suicide after realising he was wrong about doomsday
(Religion/General)

... 35 followers who barricaded themselves in the cave and threatened to blow up gas cylinders if officials tried to force them out. Mr Kuznetsov, 43, was present when a woman and two children emerged fr...

9. Expelled!
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

... I went to attend a screening of the creationist propaganda movie, Expelled, a few minutes ago. Well, I tried … but I was Expelled! It was kind of weird — I was standing in line, hadn...

10. The Great Tantra Challenge
(Paranormal/General)

...anted within three minutes by using black magic. Sanal challenged him to try and kill him. The tantrik tried. He chanted his mantras (magic words): "Om lingalingalinalinga, kilikili….&qu...

11. Numerology : Your number's up
(SA Media watch/Nonsense alert)

Published : Health24 Reposted from : http://www.health24.com/natural/Have_you_tried_/17-3933-4082,43942.asp Author : Susan Erasmus If you think numbers don't play an important role in your life, a

12. Atheism and Violence
(Religion/Atheism)

...obably already hear someone offstage lip-synching G. K. Chesterton: it’s not that atheism has been tried and found wanting, you see, it’s just never been tried at all in its pure form, a p...

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

... he said, of provoking a debate on the matter. But a complaint was made against him and he was arrested, tried by religious judges without – say his friends and family – being allowed lega...

14. Loneliness Breeds Belief in Supernatural
(Religion/Atheism)

...n In their study, detailed in the February issue of the journal Psychological Science, Epley's team tried to induce feelings of loneliness in people to see how it affected how they thought of pet...

15. The Cruise Indoctrination Video Scientology Tried To Suppress
(Religion/General)

...;UFBZ_uAbxS0  Reposted from : http://gawker.com/5002269/the-cruise-indoctrination-video-scientology-tried-to-suppress     ...

16. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

...o adopt it. That is why an older approach to moral psychology, led by Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg, tried to document the lines of reasoning that guided people to moral conclusions. But consider ...

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

...of inert flesh. What happened in that moment? In 1907 a Massachusetts physician named Duncan MacDougall tried to find out by weighing six dying patients before and after their death. He reported in t...

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

...exist, or whether we just hadn't yet been clever enough to discover it. For example, physicists have tried for most of the last century to invent a theory which described gravity while being consi...

19. Debunking 'The Secret'
(Paranormal/The Secret / What the Bleep)

If you loved The Secret, then you'll hate this article. The Secret claims to reveal an age-old, and tried and true secret of how to achieve health, wealth, love, happiness, and anything and everyt