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.

12th Jun 2007 : CAIRO, June 11 — First came the breast-feeding fatwa. It declared that the Islamic restriction on unmarried men and women being together could be lifted at work if the woman breast-fed her male colleagues five times, to establish family ties. Then came the urine fatwa. It said that drinking the urine of the Prophet Muhammad was deemed a blessing.

12th Jun 2007 : SAN ANTONIO -- Watergate figure Chuck Colson warned a gathering of Southern Baptist pastors Sunday night against what he described as two dire threats: the deadly marriage of Islam and fascism and a new, militant atheism growing in popularity in the West.

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12th Jun 2007 : More Americans accept theory of creationism than evolution

11th Jun 2007 : Interview with Richard Dawkins on BBC's Science Extra.

11th Jun 2007 : So, who want to argue the case against Mother Teresa? Christopher Hitchens.

11th Jun 2007 : We've got a new Gallup poll on evolution to agonize over. It's nothing but bad news—we are a nation of uneducated morons. Gary chose to weep over the political correlation: look how membership in the Republican party is tied to ignorance about science.

11th Jun 2007 : What began with publisher W.W. Norton taking a chance on a gutsy, hyperbolic and idiosyncratic attack on religion by a graduate student in neuroscience has grown into a remarkable intellectual wave.

11th Jun 2007 : The usher who has drifted off to sleep, slouched in the seat next to me, wakes startled and then, in order to cover her lapse in devotion begins to convulse "uncontrollably" for a minute or so. This is the kind of comedy I was looking for when I visited the Benny Hinn Holy Spirit Miracle Crusade on Saturday June 9th, 2007.

11th Jun 2007 : The publication of just six anti-religious books has managed to provoke outrage from the devout - this reveals a profound insecurity.

10th Jun 2007 : ..Behe makes a new set of explicit claims about the limits of Darwinian evolution, claims that are so poorly conceived and readily dispatched that he has unwittingly done his critics a great favor in stating them.

10th Jun 2007 : NASHVILLE -- The strobe lights pulse and the air vibrates to a killer rock beat. Giant screens show mayhem and gross-out pranks: a car wreck, a sucker punch, a flabby (and naked) rear end, sealed with duct tape.

10th Jun 2007 : Britain's Duke of Edinburgh may be planning a quiet birthday celebration at home this weekend, but there will be feasting and flag-waving in an isolated jungle village in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu, where he is worshipped as a god.

9th Jun 2007 : Asked their views on whether human life is a result of God's creation or a product of evolution, one quarter of Americans chose both conflicting theories, a poll suggested Friday.

9th Jun 2007 : CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Three former presidents honor mega-preacher Billy Graham at the dedication of his library. Days later the three top Democratic contenders for the White House openly talk about faith in a televised forum. Church and state may be separate entities in the United States. But faith and politics have become inseparable.

9th Jun 2007 : The humorist Alan Coren was told by his publisher that if he wanted to write a bestseller it should be about sport or pets. So he wrote a book called Golfing for Cats. Today I suspect his publisher would tell him to attack religion. Atheism sells.

8th Jun 2007 : Religious belief is inconsistent with reason and corrosive to the human mind - and I don't want to live in a world where it is respected.

8th Jun 2007 : John MacArthur (pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California) says God has abandoned us and dire consequences shall follow. Celebrating lesbian sex is one of the points he highlights as a reason for God's abandoning us.

8th Jun 2007 : A Pentecostal teaching assistant who quit her job at a foundation primary school after she was disciplined for refusing to hear a child read a Harry Potter book is seeking compensation for religious discrimination. She claimed that the book glorified witchcraft.

8th Jun 2007 : Study provides first evidence that chimpanzees pass along newly learned behaviors and customs to other communities

8th Jun 2007 : In his latest book, "God Is Not Great," Christopher Hitchens makes the case against religion and for "free inquiry and open-mindedness." Hitchens, of course, is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, a visiting professor of liberal studies at the New School, and author of many books. He spoke recently with Truthdig's Jon Wiener.

8th Jun 2007 : A short questionnaire with Richard Dawkins.

8th Jun 2007 : The House gave final Congressional approval on Thursday to legislation aimed at easing restrictions on federal financing of embryonic stem cell research, but Democratic leaders in both chambers conceded they were short of the votes needed to override a veto threatened by President Bush.

7th Jun 2007 : As a woman in the male-dominated kingdom, Times reporter Megan Stack quietly fumed beneath her abaya. Even beyond its borders, her experience taints her perception of the sexes.

7th Jun 2007 : "The only thing worse for these candidates than another terrorist attack would be a gay hero stopping it."

7th Jun 2007 : And since Theocracy is the worst, the nearer any government approaches to Theocracy the worse it will be. A metaphysic held by the rulers with the force of a religion, is a bad sign. It forbids them, like the inquisitor, to admit any grain of truth or good in their opponents, it abrogates the ordinary rules of morality, and it gives a seemingly high, super-personal sanction to all the very ordinary human passions by which, like other men, the rulers will frequently be actuated.

7th Jun 2007 : OFTEN WHEN I hear atheism mentioned it's followed by the bewildered statement, "How can you be sure God doesn't exist?" I would like to attempt to clear up a few common misconceptions about atheism. Namely that atheism requires faith, that outspoken atheists are "fundamentalists," and that agnostics are weak or non-committal while self-professed atheists are arrogant.

7th Jun 2007 : This hour On Point: Christopher Hitchens versus God.

7th Jun 2007 : The time has come for secularists to provide alternative secular curricula, for implementation within or alongside of the schools, in which the best scientific, historical, aesthetic, and humanistic education is made available. By this, I don't mean that we should seek to replace or abandon the public schools, but simply to supplement the education they provide by offering particular programs and courses of learning. I submit that there's an urgent need to do so.

7th Jun 2007 : Dr. Lawrence Krauss, Professor of Physics & Professor of Astronomy, Case Western Reserve University speaks at the gates of "Answers in Genesis" (AiG) in Northern Kentucky to let the world know that many rational Americans do not share the primitive world view that the Earth is only a few thousand years old, and that humans and dinosaurs existed at the same time, as presented by the 27 million dollar plus "Creation Museum" opening Memorial Day, May 28, 2007. Various groups, representing both religious and secular orientations, will join together to protest this destructive world view.

6th Jun 2007 : Whether he knows it or not, Brownback's forthright declarations, denying any possibility that empirical matters of fact might differ from those assumed by his creed, amount to nothing less than a rejection of the whole institution of science. Who is "we", and where did "our" conviction and certainty come from? Would Brownback believe these "spiritual truths" if he hadn't been taught them as a child, or brought up in the United States instead of China?

6th Jun 2007 : The ignorance of some Republican Candidates for president is truly astounding. Delay joins the ranks of . . . and Chris Matthews has a little fun with him.

6th Jun 2007 : A recent spate of books and films from atheists have incorrectly blamed religion for humankind's misery, but the true culprit is much closer to home

6th Jun 2007 : God knocking is on the increase but the criticisms levelled at religion by militant atheists are often crude and short-sighted.

6th Jun 2007 : "OK, let's be frank: Hitchens absolutely mopped the floor with Hedges. It was an embarrassment, really. Scroll down to watch the videos of Hitchens' performance to see what I mean."

5th Jun 2007 : In a rare public discussion of her husband's infidelity, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that she probably could not have gotten through her marital troubles without relying on her faith in God.

5th Jun 2007 : THE Catholic archdiocese of Sydney wants its 167 school principals, its deputy principals and religious education co-ordinators to publicly commit to a "vow of fidelity" by adhering to church teaching on homosexuality, birth control and women's ordination.

4th Jun 2007 : JAMES D. WATSON, who helped crack the DNA code half a century ago, last week became the first person handed the full text of his own DNA on a small computer disk. But he won't be the last.

4th Jun 2007 : A short video clip of kindergarten-age boys and girls in Palestine. The boys perform a play dressed as Hamas soldiers.

4th Jun 2007 : However, despite all the effort and rhetoric about protecting children and their rights, there is a severe shortcoming in the global campaign to protect children: the influence of religion and its continuing contribution to many forms of child abuse all around the world.

4th Jun 2007 : One cannot criticize religious dogmatism for long without encountering the following claim, advanced as though it were a self-evident fact of nature: there is no secular basis for morality.

3rd Jun 2007 : My road to atheism was long and difficult. I've only actively identified myself as an unbeliever for less than a year, but the questioning started long before that. I'd like to explore, for my own benefit, and hopefully the benefit of anyone under similar circumstances, what took me so long.