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.

25th Apr 2007 : Kids with religious parents are better behaved and adjusted than other children, according to a new study that is the first to look at the effects of religion on young child development.

25th Apr 2007 : There is a false, but effective, fiction that one has to be born again to be a Christian. The Christian right refuses to acknowledge the worth of anyone's religious experience unless—in the words of the tired and opaque cliché—one has accepted "Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior."

25th Apr 2007 : WASHINGTON - For the first time astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that is potentially habitable, with Earth-like temperatures, a find researchers described Tuesday as a big step in the search for "life in the universe."

24th Apr 2007 : His nickname is Darwin's Rottweiler and he earned it - and a reputation that spans the globe - with his pugnacious defence of the theory of evolution.

24th Apr 2007 : Christianity was part of my upbringing and education. Because I am fascinated by moral philosophy, enjoy reading the Bible and, as Private Parris in the Boys' Brigade, detested military drill, nautical knots, whiting-up my sash and polishing my brass belt-buckle, I have acquired a reasonable grounding in the other skill you could shine at in the BB: religious knowledge. I think religion, like politics, is tremendously important. The trouble is, I'm sure religion is wrong.

24th Apr 2007 : Who do you think should be on this year's list of TIME's most influential people? Read through the profiles of the 200 candidates and rate your top choices. Then check out the list below to see the full results.

23rd Apr 2007 : April 4, 2007 -- THEY don't call him Christopher "Hellbound" Hitchens for nothing. The heretic who attacked Mother Teresa in "Missionary Position" is at it again with "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything," hitting bookstores next month.

23rd Apr 2007 : Bill O'Reilly interviews Richard Dawkins. No fireworks and Richard got the message out.

23rd Apr 2007 : "Darwin's Rottweiler"
Oxford University biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins discusses why he thinks religion fuels war, encourages bigotry, and quashes children's intellectual development.

23rd Apr 2007 : A new video has been circulating on youtube following the Virginia Tech shootings, and Brian Coughlan has created a video response to it.

23rd Apr 2007 : THE Vatican has determined that limbo does not exist, opening the gates of heaven to babies who die unbaptised, a member of a high-level theological commission.

22nd Apr 2007 : BOSTON – Atheists are under attack these days for being too militant, for not just disbelieving in religious faith but for trying to eradicate it. And who's leveling these accusations? Other atheists, it turns out.

22nd Apr 2007 : The debate over creation and evolution, once most conspicuous in America, is fast going global

22nd Apr 2007 : Billionaire space tourist Charles Simonyi and two crew from the international space station (ISS) have safely returned to Earth.

21st Apr 2007 : SAN FRANCISCO—Open-air preacher "Brother Sam" Hilson rescued more than 300 of God's children from appreciating a cloudless spring day at Golden Gate Park Tuesday by informing them of their sins and the swift approach of Judgment Day.

20th Apr 2007 : 'God is Not Great' by Christopher Hitchens arrives May 1st!

20th Apr 2007 : The Westboro Baptist Church has announced they will picket the funerals of the 32 victims of the shooting spree at Virginia Tech.

19th Apr 2007 : Relevant section starts around 17:29.

19th Apr 2007 : It is hardly surprising that Dinesh D'Souza is once again not only profoundly mistaken but also deeply offensive. But I thought it worthwhile to say something in response, not because most people would put the point in the same morally reptilian manner as D'Souza, but because there is at least some vague sense amongst people that we atheists don't quite grasp the enormity of Monday's events, that we tend towards a cold-hearted manner of thinking, that we condescend to expressions of community, meaning, or bereavement.

19th Apr 2007 : Notice something interesting about the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings? Atheists are nowhere to be found. Every time there is a public gathering there is talk of God and divine mercy and spiritual healing. Even secular people like the poet Nikki Giovanni use language that is heavily drenched with religious symbolism and meaning.

19th Apr 2007 : Bishop Harries and Richard Dawkins have collaborated on several occasions to promote the proper teaching of science in UK classrooms. This is the full unedited interview, which was originally filmed by IWC for the Channel Four documentary 'Root or All Evil?'

19th Apr 2007 : TEHRAN, April 18 — The Iranian Supreme Court has overturned the murder convictions of six members of a prestigious state militia who killed five people they considered "morally corrupt."

19th Apr 2007 : Richard Dawkins will be interviewed by conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly on Monday, April 23, at 8.00pm EST on FOX. The program will be rebroadcasted at 11.00pm. Check your local listings for times.

For more informations, go to http://www.foxnews.com/oreilly/index.html

19th Apr 2007 : What makes some people neurotic or schizophrenic or right-handed or fearless? Are these behavioural differences caused by literal differences in how individuals' brains are wired?

18th Apr 2007 : The coverage of my recent debate in the pages of Newsweek began and ended with Jon Meacham and Rick Warren each making respectful reference to Pascal's wager. As many reader's will remember, Pascal suggested that religious believers are simply taking the wiser of two bets: if a believer is wrong about God, there is not much harm to him or to anyone else, and if he is right, he wins eternal happiness; if an atheist is wrong, however, he is destined for hell. Put this way, atheism seems the very picture of reckless stupidity.

18th Apr 2007 : It's a circus of fleas! Now Sam has one more flea out there, but he couldn't remember what it was called. Can any of you find the missing flea?! Please send it to us if you do!

18th Apr 2007 : Knife-wielding attackers slit the throats of three people at a Christian publishing house in conservative eastern Turkey yesterday.

18th Apr 2007 : It is curious that Charles Darwin, perhaps medicine's most famous dropout, provided the impetus for a subject that figures so rarely in medical education.

18th Apr 2007 : If you own a birdbath, chances are you're hosting one of evolutionary biology's most puzzling enigmas: bdelloid rotifers.

17th Apr 2007 : Douglas Wilson has written his own little book: Letter From a Christian Citizen.

17th Apr 2007 : Observed in the wild and tested in captivity, chimpanzees invite comparison with humans, their close relatives.

17th Apr 2007 : AN URGENT APPEAL FOR YOUR HELP TO PROTECT A 12 YEAR-OLD BOY

16th Apr 2007 : German government decides to tackle the myth of the 'Mozart effect'

16th Apr 2007 : Books making the case against God seem to be multiplying, becoming more strident and absolute with each turned page.

16th Apr 2007 : A new poll in Ireland shows that eighty two per cent of parents intend to let their children choose their own religion rather than force them to join the Catholic Church.

16th Apr 2007 : Something old is now something new, thanks to Lamar University researcher Jim Westgate and colleagues. The scientists' research has led to the discovery of a new genus and species of primate, one long vanished from the earth but preserved in the fossil record.

15th Apr 2007 : Standing on a hill in East Jerusalem, amid the clash of religious and political orthodoxies, stands a musty old museum devoted to human progress.

15th Apr 2007 : RICHMOND, Va. — On Sunday afternoons, when the local Roman Catholic church holds Mass for Spanish-speaking Catholics, Edgar Chilín is playing soccer in a league with hundreds of Hispanic players.

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15th Apr 2007 : Norwegian-Somalian Kadra, who became famous in Norway for exposing imam support of female circumcision, was beaten unconscious on Thursday.

14th Apr 2007 : Nisbet and Mooney do it again, with an op-ed in the Washington Post … and I'm afraid they've alienated me yet further. I am convinced now that theirs is not an approach that I could find useful, even if I could puzzle out some useable strategy from it. In the very first sentence, they claim that Richard Dawkins gives "creationist adversaries a boost" — it's the tired old argument that we must pander to religious belief. This is their rationale:

14th Apr 2007 : If the defenders of evolution wanted to give their creationist adversaries a boost, it's hard to see how they could do better than Richard Dawkins, the famed Oxford scientist who had a bestseller with "The God Delusion." Dawkins, who rose to fame with his lucid expositions of evolution in such books as "The Selfish Gene," has never gone easy on religion. But recently he has ramped up his atheist message, further mixing his defense of evolution with his attack on belief.

14th Apr 2007 : KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian Islamic scholars have called for a halt to popular exhibitions billed as featuring ghosts, genies and other supernatural beings, saying they are forbidden and could undermine the faith of devout Muslims.

14th Apr 2007 : Islam's Rise Gives Boost To Militant Unbelievers; The Celebrity Hedonist

14th Apr 2007 : The hard-living Oasis star Noel Gallagher has revealed to the New Musical Express that he has read Richard Dawkins' book The God Delusion and loved it "Anything that disproves God, bring it on," he is quoted as saying.

13th Apr 2007 : The phrase "medical miracle" is a newsroom cliche. It means a situation in which a person makes an unexpected recovery despite great odds or a pessimistic prognosis.

13th Apr 2007 : In 1981, Gary North, a leader of the Christian Reconstructionist movement — the openly theocratic wing of the Christian right — suggested that the movement could achieve power by stealth. "Christians must begin to organize politically within the present party structure," he wrote, "and they must begin to infiltrate the existing institutional order."

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