Research Report: How Secular Humanists (and Everyone Else) Subsidize Religion in the United States

Is there a way to get religious believers to trust atheists?

One of the biggest growth areas in political activism around religion is coming from an unlikely source: the nonreligious.

The Map of Life platform lets you search by species, using either its Latin name or common name, and find out where it is located on the planet. The project sheds light on how little we know about some species. Map of Life Project

The disappearance of Neanderthals still remains a mystery, but paleoanthropologists are increasingly understanding what allowed their evolutionary cousins, Homo sapiens, to conquer the planet.

Researchers in Spain have found that many of the individuals claiming to see the aura of people actually present the neuropsychological phenomenon known as "synesthesia".

In an unprecedented move, the Norwegian Parliament has voted to abolish the state sponsored Church of Norway with a constitutional amendment.

"... if you disestablish the Church and disconnect the Church from the monarchy, it gives the impression there are almost no values we share in common at all."

The American Religious Identification Survey of 2008 found that from 1990 to 2008 the number of blacks without any religious affiliation nearly doubled from 6 to 11 percent.

One counterfeit idea that circulates with frustrating stubbornness is the claim that America was founded as a Christian nation. It’s one of the Christian Right’s mantras and a favorite talking point for televangelists, religious bloggers, born-again authors and lobbyists, and pulpit preachers.

A stone-throwing chimpanzee named Santino jolted the research community by providing some of the strongest evidence yet that nonhumans could plan ahead.

Secularism, priorities, Islam, and Waleed Aly

Sean Faircloth in California - May 18, 19, 20 - Sacramento, Berkley, San Francisco

An update by the author of "A Universe from Nothing" on his thoughts, as a theoretical physicist, about the value of the discipline of philosophy

Has Physics Made Philosophy and Religion Obsolete?

Conversion on Mount Improbable: How Evolution Challenges Christian Dogma

Do Atheists Understand and Appreciate Black Bodies?

Locked Out: How the Church Responded to their Pastor’s Coming Out

The Lord’s Army Comes to America’s Public Schools