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Five exotic crocodiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs 100 million years ago, including one sporting boar-like tusks and another with a duckbill snout, have been discovered in the Sahara.
Primary school children in England will have to learn about evolution and British history under a shake-up of the national curriculum.
Let us support the courageous Muslims who, often at great personal risk, are campaigning against religious extremism. Note that there is a rally in London on Saturday.
In his most recent book, The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution, Dawkins makes his case for evolutionary theory.
Who should win the 2009 Bad Faith Award? Vote now using the poll at the top right of this page - see shortlist below for more on the challengers.
Richard appeared on the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2
Chase is giving out $5 million to various charities
IBM announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition, while rivaling the brain's low power and energy consumption and compact size.
50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists. He speaks here with Phil Kafcaloudes about the non-religious life.
If the wingnuts show up on your campus distributing Bananaman's version of Origin of Species, go out with as many friends as possible, and snap up as many copies as you can. Do everything possible to waste Bananabrain's money.
Richard Dawkins' talk at the 2009 Atheist Alliance International Conference in Burbank, California.
The final phase of the atheist bus campaign will challenge the idea that children can be labelled with their parents' religion
[UPDATE]added link to an article in politics.co.uk
A new Nashville organization classifies itself as non-religious, but the group's billboard has stirred up a religious debate
Debate - Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett vs Dinesh D'Souza, Shmuley Boteach, Nassim Taleb. Neutral: Robert Wright. La Ciudad de las Ideas 2009 Re-evolution
Go to the NCSE's Don't Diss Darwin site
His is not the first popular book on evolution. But there is something thrilling about the way Dawkins explains stuff.
Trust rules that Radio 4 programme does not breach impartiality by not including views from atheists, secularists and humanists
Scientist Thinks a "Dino Chicken" Could Be Created in Five Years By Reversing Evolution
Seven salient facts about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.
Bill Maher responds to Open Letter from Michael Shermer.
[UPDATE]A couple of links added
[UPDATE] - good link in Wired added.
A new species of finch may have arisen in the Galapagos.
Late announcement - Richard Dawkins will be on the Ron Reagan Show on Air America tonight.
[UPDATE] Link to podcast added
...CFI is pleased to announce that Ken Peters of California is the Grand Prize winner of its Blasphemy Contest...
John Denham pours scorn on secularists with his plans for an advisory body which represents less than 10% of the population
IN the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico, the archaeologists Joyce Marcus and Kent Flannery have gained a remarkable insight into the origin of religion.
Debate - Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett vs Dinesh D'Souza, Shmuley Boteach, Robert Wright.
Why do courts give believers a pass?
Faith groups are to be given a central role in shaping government policies, a senior minister has vowed.
How could the blind forces of Nature create large and highly information-laden molecules like DNA and proteins just by random processes?
The smallest objects that the unaided human eye can see are about 0.1 mm long. That means that under the right conditions, you might be able to see an ameoba proteus, a human egg, and a paramecium without using magnification
In the wake of multiple, significant threats, the downtown billboard that says “Don’t Believe In God? You are not alone” came down early Thursday morning.
An interview with a Taliban trained Suicide Bomber With English Subtitles.
Mr. Deity and cast perform live skits from their excellent web series. Brian Dalton (Deity) explains his personal journey from Mormonism to creating the show.
Of the 20,000 genes in the human genome, few are more fascinating than FOXP2, a gene that underlies the faculty of human speech.
...the first in a series of science breakfasts organised by The Times to celebrate the launch of Eureka, our new magazine devoted to science, life and the planet...
In response to the recent tragic events at Fort Hood, Texas, the Center for Inquiry has released a statement from Ibn Warraq, Islamic scholar and leading figure in Quranic criticism.
Carolyn Porco examines how science and scientists are portrayed in the film industry. She also explains how she interprets some of the stunning imagery taken by the Cassini mission to Saturn and the outer planets, which she oversees.
Dan Dennett's talk at the AAI 2007 Conference in Washington, D.C.
Richard Dawkins talks about "The New Atheism" at the AAI 2007 Conference in Washington, D.C.
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NOVA's comprehensive, three-part special, "Becoming Human," examines what the latest scientific research reveals about our hominid relatives.
That’s about one-tenth as cheap as the $48,000 effort reported in August by Helicos Biosciences Corp. of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The first human genome map was completed by researchers in 2001 at an estimated cost of more than $100 million...
Having been selected to talk by the Stanford University graduating class, Sapolsky spoke about the uniqueness of humans in relation to the rest of the animal world.
Pterosaur ‘missing link’ poses problems for a Dawkins’ evolutionary story in The Greatest Show on Earth
Mr. Deity has to deal with an angry Death, whose day goes from bad to worse.
My political beliefs, my ideas about social justice, are as deeply held as my critics’ religious beliefs, but I don’t ask them to treat me with reverence, only civility.
...putting aside attacks on religion to produce instead a thorough explanation of how humans and other life forms are linked through evolution.
...the science he presents in "Greatest Show" is breathtaking.
Post and video about yesterday's Carl Sagan Day event in Florida.