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In this interview with D.J. Grothe, Russell Blackford explains the need for 50 Voices of Disbelief.
Carl Sagan's Last interview on Charlie Rose
Civility has its uses, but we should not be afraid of satire and mockery as weapons against religious power
The billboard went up Sunday on eastbound Memorial Boulevard near Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue.
An old grey mare named Twilight has provided an international team of researchers with the entire genetic code of a domestic horse.
Two hundred years after Darwin’s birth, scientists still can’t agree on whether evolution and religion can happily coexist
The Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, has stirred up controversy in the German media with his All Saints’ Day sermon, in which he compared the ideas of Richard Dawkins to those of the Nazis.
Lord Sacks said that Europe was the world?s most secular region and the only one experiencing population decline
Having lost the power of the gun in the West, apologists of religion have a new weapon: being offended.
In a nation in which millions go bankrupt and/or die from not having health care insurance the decision to include prayer healing into the insidiously partisan healthcare deliberations is an outrage.
A detailed picture of the seeds of structures in the universe has been unveiled by an international team co-led by Sarah Church of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
The thing that immediately struck me was that, despite all the sharp put-downs, Dawkins is actually incredibly mild-mannered in person.
Author of 'The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution' shares his passion for spreading an understanding of scientific processes with the layperson.
The first in-depth televised investigation documenting an explosion of recent discoveries,
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a theoretical model that informs the understanding of evolution and determines how quickly an organism will evolve using a catalogue of "evolutionary speed limits."
European court of human rights rules crucifixes that hang in classrooms violate religious and educational freedoms
Depression might be evolution's way of fixing what ails us
Jerry Coyne explains 'Why Evolution Is True' (also the title of his excellent new book) at the Atheist Alliance International 2009 conference, sponsored by The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.
Dan Dennett links culture, evolution and philosophy during a lecture in Oslo.
Creationism is growing in the Muslim world
Success in Genetic Sequencing May Help in Combating Human Ailments, Including Obesity, Heart Disease
Egyptian Clerics Encourage Martyrdom in Gaza
The world's oldest spider web spun when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth has been found encased in a Prehistoric piece of amber from a beach in the south of England.
There's a schism alright, and I seem to find myself on the unfashionable side of it.
The question: Is there an atheist schism?
[UPDATE] - links to articles by PZ and Jerry Coyne
Can people be good if they don't think Charles Dickens was the greatest novelist in the English language?
Featuring a superb cast and commentators including David Suzuki, Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond and Iain McCalman, this is the story of how four young voyagers changed our world forever.
Richard Dawkins, who recently retired from the Oxford University faculty, is a canny, funny and beguiling biologist
The electrons could, in turn, be the result of decaying dark matter, but that, they said, is an argument they will make in a future paper.
Celebrities and news-makers are grilled by Matthew Stadlen in exactly five minutes in a series for the BBC News website.
I had intended to leave this subject behind, at least for a while, but Josh Rosenau has a lengthy post up that I think merits a reply
Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State & Pat Robertson's demonic threats of Halloween.
Dan Dennett talks about purposely-confusing theology and how it's used. He also describes his new project interviewing clergyman who secretly don't believe anymore, and introduces a new term: "Deepity."
Cornell researchers have discovered a genetic mechanism in fruit flies that prevents two closely related species from reproducing, a finding that offers clues to how species evolve.
Many of the beliefs held by religious moderates -- smart people who respect science and the separation of church and state -- are as untenable as the dogma of fundamentalists.
This is an article/book from 1994 on the Phelps family and Westboro Baptist Church that was made available on the web after the author ran into difficulties getting it published.
Video in which dubbed lines from Pol Pot, Stalin, and Hitler explain their atrocities and have two analysts conclude that these were crimes in the name of atheism.
Austin Dacey is former representative to the United Nations for the Center for Inquiry and the author of "The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life."
Originally Aired: October 23 10:00 PM - Length 26:55
PORTUGAL: Bible Is "A Catalogue of Cruelties," Says Saramago
Why is Richard Dawkins, promoting his new evolution book, regularly being asked about his atheism, and why he is “strident,” “polarizing,” etc?
Time was when science was considered a value-neutral pursuit. That seems like an eternity ago.
...IBM scientists are drilling nano-sized holes in computer-like chips and passing DNA strands through them...
As a new member of the UN Human Rights Council, the US must persuade other countries not to go along.
How governments decide whether a religion is real or not.
"Good Without God?" posters in the Boston subway.
Polls show a majority of Americans are concerned about the H1N1 virus (swine flu), but also about the safety and efficacy of the swine flu vaccine. Is it ethical to say no to this or any vaccine?
Approximately 120-130 million years ago, one of the most significant events in the history of the Earth occurred: the first flowering plants
It's not your average confession show: a panel of leading physicists spilling the beans about what keeps them tossing and turning in the wee hours.
Richard Holloway's `third way' approach has riveted the U.K.