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.

3rd Jun 2007 : The science has long been clear that smoking causes cancer, but new research shows that children could inherit genetic damage from a father who smokes.

3rd Jun 2007 : The search for alien life is yielding weird new worlds at a remarkable rate

3rd Jun 2007 : Two prominent defenders of science exchange their views on how scientists ought to approach religion and its followers

3rd Jun 2007 : A massive blast of radiation from space once almost sterilized the Earth

3rd Jun 2007 : St. Francis deacon blesses Members Only club and 240 of its closest friends

2nd Jun 2007 : For ungodly folk, the soaraway success of Dawkins's anti-clerical diatribe has been a source of considerable pleasure. Indeed, it has been impossible not to laugh out loud at the injured squeakings of some irate reviewers of the hardback version, a book, we should note, that has sold hundreds of thousands of copies since publication eight months ago. At this rate, Dawkins may become non-fiction's answer to Harry Potter.

2nd Jun 2007 : ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — A Christian was sentenced to death for allegedly insulting Islam's Prophet Muhammed, and a human rights activist Friday urged Pakistan's president to spare his life.

2nd Jun 2007 : Richard Dawkins, the author of the NY Times bestseller - The God Delusion - has been interviewed many a time recently. The questions asked were mainly related to his book, the views on atheism, morality and present world.

He answered all questions in a flawless and confident way. Each and every answer speaks about his passion and eagerness to explain his stance on every point. It's an amazing experience to watch him speak. I have tried to pick up a few commonly asked questions and his answers on different topics.

1st Jun 2007 : "ALL of the things all the religions teach us may be nonsense, yet some kind of god might still exist. If we can't prove God doesn't exist, shouldn't we be calling ourselves agnostics rather than atheists?" a member of a Melbourne audience asked French philosopher Michel Onfray this week (writes Pamela Bone).

1st Jun 2007 : OTTAWA — Frank McKenna, Canada's former ambassador to Washington, referred to the United States on Friday as "a theocratic state" in which Christian evangelicalism plays a big role in the Republican administration.

1st Jun 2007 : I recently attended a national meeting of biologists, gathered in dismay over the way we teach medicine in the United States, at least regarding basics of biology. At the top of their list was the failure of medical schools to adequately teach principles of evolution. They blamed such ignorance for what we all face now -- an unwanted and dangerous experiment in microbe evolution.