4th May 2007 : Researchers in the US say they have firm evidence that apes communicate using gestures - shedding light on the development of human language.

4th May 2007 : David Cameron's ambiguity about creationism provides yet another example of politicians taking the benefits of science without defending its principles.

4th May 2007 : Human spoken language may have evolved from a currency of hand and arm gestures, not simply through improvements in the basic vocalisations made by primates.

3rd May 2007 : To mark two and a half decades of selling books, we asked our booksellers to vote on their favourites published since 1982. The God Delusion is up on this new poll.

3rd May 2007 : CHRISTIANS AND ATHEISTS TO DEBATE EXISTENCE OF GOD IN FIRST-EVER "NIGHTLINE FACE OFF" ON SATURDAY, MAY 5th AT 7:30PM EST--MARTIN BASHIR TO MODERATE FORUM

DEBATE WILL BE POSTED ON ABCNEWS.COM AT 2PM WEDNESDAY, MAY 9th--SEGMENT TO THEN AIR ON "NIGHTLINE" THAT NIGHT

3rd May 2007 : Of Richard Dawkins' nine books, none caused as much controversy or sold as well as last year's The God Delusion. The central idea—popular among readers and deeply unsettling among proponents of intelligent design like myself—is that religion is a so-called virus of the mind, a simple artifact of cultural evolution, no more or less meaningful than eye color or height.

2nd May 2007 : Jordan will soon open a new museum just for children in the capital, Amman. The innovative Children's Museum-Jordan combines hands-on learning with scientific knowledge.

2nd May 2007 : "An anti-religion education video."

2nd May 2007 : It would be easy to congratulate ourselves on our tolerance of the fanatically intolerant

2nd May 2007 : "This guy's the champion," said Patricia Brennan, a behavioral ecologist, leaning over the nether regions of a duck — a Meller's duck from Madagascar, to be specific — and carefully coaxing out his phallus.

1st May 2007 : Four years ago tomorrow, President Bush landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln and dramatically strode onto the deck in a flight suit, a crash helmet tucked under one arm. Even without the giant banner that hung from the ship's tower, the president's message about the progress of the war in Iraq was unmistakable: mission accomplished.

1st May 2007 : MUSLIM radicals have established their own draconian court systems in Britain.

1st May 2007 : In this conversation with D.J. Grothe, Taner Edis explores whether the Koran anticipates the modern scientific understanding of the world, the intelligent design creationist movement within Islam, and whether science is even compatible with the Muslim faith. He also shares his views about the future of Islam, especially in relation to the secular, more scientific West.

1st May 2007 : Four sermons against The God Delusion.

1st May 2007 : The session was titled "The Design of Life," and the TED audience was probably expecting remarks about evolution's role in our history from biologist Richard Dawkins. Instead, he launched into a full-on appeal for atheists to make public their beliefs and to aggressively fight the incursion of religion into politics and education.

1st May 2007 : Friedrich Nietzsche may have spoken prematurely when he proclaimed, "God is Dead!" Enter Richard Dawkins to complete God's interment.

1st May 2007 : Jon Stewart interviews Christopher Hitchens author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.

30th Apr 2007 : Richard Dawkins believes science's ability to admit ignorance is one of its greatest strengths. On the flip side, he proposes that faith remains arrogant and all too certain of its validity without any rational set of proofs.

30th Apr 2007 : Disbelief now rivals the great faiths in numbers and influence. Never before has religion faced such enormous levels of disbelief, or faced a hazard as powerful as that posed by modernity. How is organized religion going to regain the true, choice-based initiative when only one of them is growing, and it is doing so with reproductive activity rather than by convincing the masses to join in, when no major faith is proving able to grow as they break out of their ancestral lands via mass conversion, and when securely prosperous democracies appear immune to mass devotion? The religious industry simply lacks a reliable stratagem for defeating disbelief in the 21st century.

30th Apr 2007 : Description: Book TV presents LIVE coverage of the LA Times Festival of Books. At 1:30pm ET/10:30am PT, a panel on the mixing of religion and culture featuring: Christopher Hitchens ("God Is Not Great"), Zachary Karabell ("Peace Be upon You: The Story of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence"), and Jonathan Kirsch ("A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization"). The panel is moderated by Thane Rosenbaum.

30th Apr 2007 : It was bad enough when Army chaplains and leaders like Chief of the National Guard Bureau Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum were disparaging atheists in the press. It was bad enough when my formal EO complaint was thrown away by the National Guard Bureau EO office. It was bad enough when the Department of the Army Inspector General's office refused to follow regulations and send me a written response to my formal EO complaint. It was bad enough when I had to file for documents pertaining to my complaint under the Freedom of Information Act to discover its disposition. It was bad enough when those documents revealed that, despite the unlawful discrimination that had occurred according to Army Regulation 600-20, the Army concluded that "Lt. Gen. Blum's remarks, though perhaps insensitive, did not rise to the level of an offense".

30th Apr 2007 : Christopher Hitchens on religion (no thanks), Iraq (not a mistake), and his own loud reputation.

30th Apr 2007 : An atheistic rant that is, well, just preaching to the choir.

30th Apr 2007 : Utah County Republicans ended their convention on Saturday by debating Satan's influence on illegal immigrants.

30th Apr 2007 : Surrender yourself to a higher power and never feel alone again!

30th Apr 2007 : How soon till we can get to the Goldilocks planet? Don't cash in your frequent flier miles yet.

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29th Apr 2007 : Hundreds of thousands of people have rallied in Istanbul in support of secularism in Turkey, amid a row over a vote for the country's next president.

29th Apr 2007 : Christopher Hitchens is an essayist and pundit who loves a good fight and is never afraid to pick on someone his own size; but this time he's outdone himself. He's picked on God.

29th Apr 2007 : Last night's performance of INVINCIBLE SUMMER was disrupted when eighty seven members of a Christian group walked out of the show en masse, and chose to physically attack my work by pouring water on and destroying the original of the show outline.

28th Apr 2007 : The massive central door in the side of Noah's Ark was thrown open Saturday -- you could say it was the first time in 4,000 years -- drawing a crowd of curious pilgrims and townsfolk to behold the wonder.

28th Apr 2007 : Brief free taste for public but internet expositions by top academics such as Richard Dawkins and Niall Ferguson will then be licensed

28th Apr 2007 : In celebration of the 17th anniversary of the launch and deployment of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers is releasing one of the largest panoramic images ever taken with Hubble's cameras. It is a 50-light-year-wide view of the central region of the Carina Nebula where a maelstrom of star birth - and death - is taking place.

28th Apr 2007 : Jean Seaton explores how the BBC has faced the task of trying to accommodate, explain and negotiate religious beliefs. From director general Lord Reith's reading of Blake's poem Jerusalem on the day the General Strike ended in 1926 to the controversy surrounding the decision to screen Jerry Springer: The Opera, the corporation has always had to tread carefully with regard to the nation's religious sensitivities.

28th Apr 2007 : Dr. Richard Dawkins, an Oxford University biology professor, author and intellectual who probably is the world's most famous atheist and evolutionist, gave a lecture Thursday night in Little Rock.

28th Apr 2007 : Jonathan Miller Reveals the Hidden Story of Atheism
Three-Part Series Premiers May 4 on Public Television

"… the history of the growing conviction that God doesn't exist." — Jonathan Miller

28th Apr 2007 : Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron are two of the very dumbest creationists you will find — and they were upset at the Blasphemy Challenge, so they demanded a chance to debate. And of course, since they are the dumbest, most inane, silliest creationists around, television executives jumped at the chance.

27th Apr 2007 : Strides in understanding human brain chemistry and genetics are giving scientists hope they may be able to defuse violent behavior to avoid tragedies like last week's university massacre in Virginia, neurologists say.

27th Apr 2007 : If the followers of the prophet Muhammad hoped to put an end to any future "revelations" after the immaculate conception of the Koran, they reckoned without the founder of what is now one of the world's fastest-growing faiths

27th Apr 2007 : The Wellcome Trust has produced a colourful booklet for High School kids about Evolution:

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/assets/wtd026042.pdf

It includes an image of The God Delusion (UK version) and comments about The Selfish Gene as well.

27th Apr 2007 : Can "neurotheology" bridge the gap between religion and science?

26th Apr 2007 : Bill Maher said, "I call myself an apatheist." on Scarborough Country, April 24, 2007.

26th Apr 2007 : High school students who are taught creationism instead of evolutionary theory lack the critical thinking skills that are necessary for college, according to Stanford President Emeritus Donald Kennedy.

26th Apr 2007 : With the arrival of spring, Iranian police have launched a crackdown against women accused of not covering up enough, arresting nearly 300 women, some for wearing too tight an overcoat or letting too much hair peek out from under their veil, authorities said Monday.

26th Apr 2007 : The most enticing property yet found outside our solar system is about 20 light-years away in the constellation Libra, a team of European astronomers said yesterday.

26th Apr 2007 : There is some question as to whether Islam is a separate religion at all. It initially fulfilled a need among Arabs for a distinctive or special creed, and is forever identified with their language and their impressive later conquests, which, while not as striking as those of the young Alexander of Macedonia, certainly conveyed an idea of being backed by a divine will until they petered out at the fringes of the Balkans and the Mediterranean.

26th Apr 2007 : Norm posted a clip from the O'Reilly interview today:

http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2007/04/judeochristian.html

And Zaphod2106 made a little remix of it:

26th Apr 2007 : Larry Moran raised an interesting comparison over at Laden's place. In response to this constant whining that loud-and-proud atheism 'hurts the cause', he brought up a historical parallel

26th Apr 2007 : As rejection letters go, it would have taken some beating. The publishers of Charles Darwin's seminal work, On the Origin of Species, considered turning down his manuscript and asking him to write about pigeons instead.

25th Apr 2007 : This week Slate is publishing three excerpts from Christopher Hitchens' new book, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.