26th Jun 2007 : Father Jonathan on Faux News talking about Atheism.... count the logical fallacies, there are plenty, writes David. I'm game we can start with the fact that atheists don't claim a God doesn't exist they claim there is insufficient evidence to believe that one does. There is also the appeal to popularity ninety percent believe so it must be true. Father Jonathan makes other terrible arguments can you identify and refute them?

26th Jun 2007 : It's impossible to satisfy "Rage Boy" and his ilk. It's stupid to try.

26th Jun 2007 : I have just finished reading a deeply disheartening book by my friend Professor Akbar Ahmed. Dr. Ahmed is the former Pakistani High Commissioner to Britain and member of the faculties of Harvard, Princeton and Cambridge, current chair of Islamic Studies at American University -- and is in the front ranks of what we Westerners call the moderate Muslims who we are counting on to win the hearts and minds of the others.

26th Jun 2007 : The government has announced that it will publish guidance for schools on how creationism and intelligent design relate to science teaching, and has reiterated that it sees no place for either on the science curriculum.

26th Jun 2007 : 4 page German spread on The God Delusion in Ullstein catalog.

26th Jun 2007 : Germany has banned the makers of Tom Cruise's new movie from filming at military sites in the country because the actor is a Scientologist.

25th Jun 2007 : Supporters of President George W Bush say it's one of his greatest achievements: encouraging religious organisations to help with the provision of basic social services.

25th Jun 2007 : (MADISON, WIS.) The U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 decision today in Hein v. FFRF granting the executive branch the freedom to violate the separation of church and state without court review spells "imperial presidency," charges the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

25th Jun 2007 : God, Dawkins, and Paris Hilton meet on BBC Radio 4, The Now Show.

25th Jun 2007 : It's not quite "We are the world"

25th Jun 2007 : The 5-4 high court decision bars taxpayers from challenging initiative

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Monday that ordinary taxpayers cannot challenge a White House initiative that helps religious charities get a share of federal money.

24th Jun 2007 : There's at least one thing Richard Dawkins has in common with the God he so famously (and successfully) doesn't believe in: Each of them has a reputation for being rather solemn when it comes to explaining the meaning of things.

23rd Jun 2007 : Edward Tabash gave this speech to members of the Center For Inquiry during a recent cruise in the Galapagos.

23rd Jun 2007 : In this video I deconstruct the broken watch straw man argument used by creationist / ID supporters to attack evolution. I had to pack a ton of information into this video so you WILL need to pause it periodically.

23rd Jun 2007 : I FIND, AS I GROW OLDER, THAT I AM perhaps not as up to speed with the Zeitgeist as I used to be.

23rd Jun 2007 : First Dennett, then Dawkins and now Hitchens: and of these three recent diatribes against religion, Christopher Hitchens's is the fiercest.

23rd Jun 2007 : 'Attacking religion can seem like breaking a butterfly on a wheel'

23rd Jun 2007 : It is dangerously wrong to lay the blame for the world's evils at the feet of organised religion as Christopher Hitchens does in God Is Not Great, says Richard Harries

22nd Jun 2007 : New laws shore up providers' right to refuse treatment based on values

22nd Jun 2007 : A 16-year-old girl is in the High Court to accuse her school of discriminating against Christians by banning the wearing of "purity rings".

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21st Jun 2007 : Bill O'Reilly and Kirk Cameron make fools of themselves.

21st Jun 2007 : We debate a new book "God is not Great" with author Christopher Hitchens and his brother Peter Hitchens .

21st Jun 2007 : Dear Prof. Dawkins:

I am writing to you as one who was once as convinced as you are that I understood the nature of reality and how it was best interpreted.

21st Jun 2007 : President Bush on Wednesday issued his second veto of a measure lifting his restrictions on human embryonic stem cell experiments.

21st Jun 2007 : The launch of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain is a torch of hope in a dark quadrant of the world's affairs. Its manifesto should be read by all.

20th Jun 2007 : The origin of this species is The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, a withering polemic by the world's leading atheist. Avi sits down and chats with the best-selling author.

20th Jun 2007 : Controversial author and world-renowned atheist Richard Dawkins joined Leslie Roberts in studio to discuss his book "The God Delusion" and why God doesn't exist.

19th Jun 2007 : Consider these signs: Creationist science museums opening in Kentucky and Alberta … a Broadway revival of a play about the 1925 Scopes evolution teaching scandal, current school boards debating whether evolution and intelligent design should be taught together in science classes...you could say Darwin hasn't been so newsworthy since Queen Victoria was on the throne.

19th Jun 2007 : Professor of the Public Understanding of Science @ Oxford University, Author of "The God Delusion". In his book, Professor Dawkins contends that belief in a supernatural creator qualifies as a delusion, which he defines as a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence.

19th Jun 2007 : During a recent trip to the Galapagos with the Center for Inquiry, Richard Dawkins gave a reading of his new preface to the paperback edition of The God Delusion. This video is of the reading, and a separate video (coming soon!) will have the Q&A session that followed.

19th Jun 2007 : Focus magazine has included a bit of the interview from their magazine with Richard in the July edition of their podcast.

19th Jun 2007 : Professor Richard Dawkins talks to Roger Highfield about the runaway success of his atheist manifesto, The God Delusion, and why he is intrigued by the online vitual world SecondLife.

18th Jun 2007 : On the eighth day of her son's life, Julia Query welcomed friends and family to celebrate his birth and honor their Jewish heritage. But there was no crying, no scalpel, no blood, no "mohel" -- the person who traditionally performs ritual circumcisions in the Jewish faith. In fact, Elijah Rose's "bris" differed markedly from the ceremony long used to initiate Jewish boys into a covenant with God: There was no circumcision.

18th Jun 2007 : Opus comic about recent surge in books on Atheism.

18th Jun 2007 : For readers who weren't able to attend the Truthdig debate between Sam Harris and Chris Hedges, we now have full coverage. So sit back, relax and enjoy the fireworks.

18th Jun 2007 : Our children are being force-fed government endorsed religious dogma, and we have to launch a counter-offensive.

17th Jun 2007 : RE teachers must provide children with a more sophisticated understanding of the subject in a post-11 September world, Ofsted says.

16th Jun 2007 : Little Atoms is a Radio show about Science, Rationalism, Humanism and the Left. Broadcast fortnightly on Fridays from 16:30 to 17:30 on Resonance 104.4 FM (UK). Little Atoms is Produced and presented by Neil Denny, Padraig Reidy and Richard Sanderson

16th Jun 2007 : The legion enemies of Christopher Hitchens have long argued that he has declined into a premature alcoholic senility where he can only belch and flail incoherently. This dazzling howl against religion will bitterly, brutally, disappoint them. It shows Hitchens can still intellectually get it up – and how.

16th Jun 2007 : Salman Rushdie, who went into hiding under threat of death after an Iranian fatwa, has been knighted by the Queen.

15th Jun 2007 : From a recent edition of Focus Magazine

15th Jun 2007 : Certainty sells. But whether it is religious or atheistic, it will always sell you short.

14th Jun 2007 : HH: Welcome to a special edition of the Hugh Hewitt Show, The Great God Debate, a three-hour exchange of views between Christopher Hitchens and Dr. Mark Roberts. Christopher Hitchens, a graduate of Oxford, of course, long time journalist, Vanity Fair columnist, author of many books and collections of essays, including a biography of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, and most recently, god Is Not Great, last week, the number one bestselling non-fiction book in America. Dr. Roberts, frequent guest on this program, is a graduate of Harvard College, and also received his PhD from Harvard. He is a pastor, a professor, a blogger, and the author of six books. His latest is available this week, in fact, Can We Trust The Gospels. Gentlemen, welcome to you both. Christopher, good to have you back on.

14th Jun 2007 : · Group 'betrayed mission' over new abortion policy
· Human rights organisation fears dip in donations

13th Jun 2007 : A Debate on Religion and Politics May 14, 2007, 7:00 p.m.

13th Jun 2007 : This week, for example, Professor David Colquhoun FRS - one of the most eminent scientists in the UK - has been forced to remove his quackbusting blog from the UCL servers where it has lived for many years, after complaints from disgruntled alternative therapists.

12th Jun 2007 : I like PBS. I really do. So I'm deeply troubled about a church-state program being rolled out on the network this month.

12th Jun 2007 : Read the 1st chapter of The God Delusion in Bengali.

12th Jun 2007 : Browsing the websites of different colleges, a prospective biology student finds an unusual statement on the page of the Department of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University.