8th Dec 2007 : Colin Tudge is full of praise for God's Undertaker, a sharp riposte to scientists from John Lennox

8th Dec 2007 : Although most scientists believe tuberculosis emerged only several thousand years ago, new research from The University of Texas at Austin reveals the most ancient evidence of the disease has been found in a 500,000-year-old human fossil from Turkey.

8th Dec 2007 : Despite appearances, scientists and literary authors have spent centuries mirroring each other, albeit indirectly

8th Dec 2007 : Norm had this one as well on onegoodmove.org, so I thought I'd share it. Keith Olberman talks about the Romney speech.

8th Dec 2007 : Bill's guest Lori Lipman Brown of the Secular Coalition for America does a pretty good job of respresenting the atheist position.

7th Dec 2007 : "An atheist in this sense [of philosophical naturalist] is somebody who believes there is nothing beyond the natural, physical world, no supernatural creative intelligence lurking behind the observable universe, no soul that outlasts the body and no miracles – except in the sense of natural phenomena that we don't yet understand.

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7th Dec 2007 : MITT ROMNEY'S WINDY, WORTHLESS SPEECH.

7th Dec 2007 : IN the last few weeks, in three widely publicized episodes, we have seen Islamic justice enacted in ways that should make Muslim moderates rise up in horror.

7th Dec 2007 : New York's Roman Catholic Church is trying a novel approach to alert children to the danger of being sexually assaulted by a priest, with an abuse-themed coloring book, officials said yesterday.

7th Dec 2007 : BBC special on the spiritual fraud, self proclaimed god in human form, Shri Sathya Sai Baba.

7th Dec 2007 : "Thank you, Mr. President, for your kind introduction.

"It is an honour to be here today. This is an inspiring place because of you and the first lady and because of the film exhibited across the way in the presidential library. For those who have not seen it, it shows the president as a young pilot, shot down during the Second World War, being rescued from his life raft by the crew of an American submarine. It is a moving reminder that when America has faced challenge and peril, Americans rise to the occasion, willing to risk their very lives to defend freedom and preserve our nation. We are in your debt. Thank you, Mr. President.

7th Dec 2007 : "I have faith that everything I believe is absolutely true without question."

6th Dec 2007 : Note to radical Muslims: I've now named my favorite coffee mug 'Muhammad.' Hope that helps

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6th Dec 2007 : On one side of the Atlantic sits Lord Black. On the other, Judge Luigi Tosti. Both are convicted criminals, both proclaim their cause and their innocence.

6th Dec 2007 : Fox & Friends launched a salvo in the War on Christmas Monday, attacking an atheist group's "tree of knowledge" erected in front of a Philadelphia courthouse alongside a creche and menorah, while ignoring a 32-foot tree dedicated to "commercial attraction" in the same public square.

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5th Dec 2007 : After months of nominations, the time has finally come to decide who walks away with the coveted 2007 New Humanist Bad Faith Award.

5th Dec 2007 : A Christian group has lost its High Court battle to prosecute the BBC's director general over the screening of Jerry Springer - The Opera in 2005.

5th Dec 2008 : Our guest on the Have Your Say programme on Sunday 9 December will be Professor Richard Dawkins.

4th Dec 2007 : THE HOLIDAY CELEBRATES THE TRIUMPH OF TRIBAL JEWISH BACKWARDNESS.

4th Dec 2007 : Is Texas about to become the next state to undermine the teaching of evolution? That is the scary implication of the abrupt ousting of Christine Comer, the state's top expert on science education. Her transgression: forwarding an e-mail message about a talk by a distinguished professor who debunks "intelligent design" and creationism as legitimate alternatives to evolution in the science curriculum.

4th Dec 2007 : OVERWORKED nurses have been ordered to stop all medical work five times every day to move Muslim patients' beds so they face towards Mecca

4th Dec 2007 : Writer Shalom Auslander left Orthodox Judaism behind but God came with him

4th Dec 2007 : I swear, they're trying to see how stupid they can get before my head explodes.

3rd Dec 2007 : Chimpanzees have an extraordinary photographic memory that is far superior to ours, research suggests.

3rd Dec 2007 : Beyond Belief 07 videos!

3rd Dec 2007 : Demented and powerless, the aged being could only weep and mumble in fear and pain and misery and he shrank away from what seemed like another threat . . . He was as light as paper and would have followed them anywhere, having no will of his own."

3rd Dec 2007 : DECEMBER 03, 2007 - MSNBC MORNING JOE

2nd Dec 2007 : No one is happier than I am about the latest development in stem-cell research. Scientists in Japan and Wisconsin have independently figured out how to turn ordinary human skin cells into something like pluripotent stem cells. These are the cells that have caused so much excitement in recent years because they are like a biological gift certificate that can be turned into other kinds of cells as needed. These cells have also produced much controversy because they are derived from human embryos. I have the disease — Parkinson's — for which stem cells hold the most immediate promise. The hope is that they can be turned into the type of brain cells that produce dopamine, the missing ingredient in Parkinson's patients.

2nd Dec 2007 : In the penultimate chapter of his best-selling book The God Delusion, biologist and world-renowned atheist Richard Dawkins presents his view of religious education, which he explains by way of an anecdote.

1st Dec 2007 : I've been reading through Richard Dawkins' books and am currently half way through The Blind Watchmaker (2006 paperback edition) and on page 119 he writes:

1st Dec 2007 : Dinesh D'Souza, Christian and best-selling author, faced off against Tufts professor, author, and atheist Daniel Dennett in a debate on the existence of god.

1st Dec 2007 : AUSTIN, Tex., Nov. 29 (AP) — The state's director of science curriculum said she resigned this month under pressure from officials who said she had given the appearance of criticizing the teaching of intelligent design.

30th Nov 2007 : Crowds of people have marched in Sudan's capital Khartoum to call for a tougher sentence for a British teacher imprisoned for insulting religion.

30th Nov 2007 : VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict, in an encyclical released on Friday, said atheism was responsible for some of the "greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice" in history.

30th Nov 2007 : More Americans believe in a literal hell and the devil than Darwin's theory of evolution, according to a new Harris poll released on Thursday.

29th Nov 2007 : This is the extended version of the Allan Gregg interview from a few weeks back.

29th Nov 2007 : On 20th November, the Centre for Social Cohesion hosted an evening debate in Westminster between Ayaan Hirsi Ali...

29th Nov 2007 : In the Dover trial, you got the palpable sense that the creationists were terrified of Barbara Forrest's testimony. I did not know quite how deeply the dread was until today, though: the Texas director os science curriculum, Chris Comer, was pressured into resigning because she forwarded an e-mail announcing a talk by Barbara Forrest. One Lizzette Reynolds, Republican hack and senior advisor to the Texas Education Agency, was freaking horrified.

29th Nov 2007 : Ayaan Hirsi Ali was the guest tonight on Anderson Cooper 360.

29th Nov 2007 : Boy dies of leukemia after refusing treatment for religious reasons
Because of his faith, Dennis Lindberg, 14, didn't want vital transfusions; his biological parents did.

29th Nov 2007 : I see some fundamental contradiction here. Everybody criticizes Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris. But at least they're talking about how ludicrous some of these belief systems are. I know that David Sloan Wilson doesn't take issue with the way I've framed these questions, but to see religion as having a positive influence does not get at the fundamental question of what it means to have faith.

29th Nov 2007 : In recent years, creationists have become more aggressive in their attempts to undermine science education. The movement, originating in the U.S., has gained political support in Great Britain and Canada.

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29th Nov 2007 : Fear of looking unattractive can be a stronger motivation for keeping people going to the gym than the hope of looking good, a study says.

29th Nov 2007 : Like us, our canine friends are able to form abstract concepts. Friederike Range and colleagues from the University of Vienna in Austria have shown for the first time that dogs can classify complex color photographs and place them into categories in the same way that humans do.