31 Mar 2007 : GENEVA — Islamic countries pushed through a resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday urging a global prohibition on the public defamation of religion _ a response largely to the furor last year over caricatures published in a Danish newspaper of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.

30th Mar 2007 : This is the long evolution intro/opening on The Simpsons season 18 episode 16 (Homerazzi).

30th Mar 2007 : The idea that Charles Darwin delayed publishing On the Origin of Species for 20 years for fear of ridicule is a myth, a new assessment claims.

30th Mar 2007 : TVO (t.v. Ontario, Canada) has a week long series on religion this week on its political show The Agenda. The interview above is with evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne (U of Chicago) The video for the show is available on the site for free (linked in the left hand column).

30th Mar 2007 : In scientific circles over the last 150 years, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection has become the accepted explanation for how we and all other living things evolved from primitive, single-celled ancestors.

30th Mar 2007 : For years, conservationists have warned about overfishing of large sharks in the northwestern Atlantic, as the demand for meat and fins, coupled with slow growth and reproduction rates of many species, has caused sharp declines in populations of hammerheads, duskies and other sharks.

30th Mar 2007 : Genetic elements that select for their own survival could establish disease-resistance genes in insect populations.

29th Mar 2007 : Fresh Air from WHYY, March 28, 2007 · In his most recent book, British scientist Richard Dawkins writes about the irrationality of a belief in God, examines God in all his forms and sets down his arguments for atheism. The book is The God Delusion.

29th Mar 2007 : The French nun whose testimony of a mystery cure from Parkinson's disease could prompt the Roman Catholic Church to beatify Pope John Paul II is a gentle, simple woman who is ''deeply moved'' by what has happened to her, a priest who knows her said Thursday.

29th Mar 2007 : Professor Richard Dawkins has described religious believers as "sucking on dummies" for comfort and said that giving children a religious education was comparable to "erecting a firewall in their minds" against scientific truth.

28th Mar 2007 : Richard Dawkins has been named Author of the Year by the Galaxy British Book Awards!

28th Mar 2007 : New Research Shows How Religion Is Used to Justify Violence.

28th Mar 2007 : 'The God Solution: A Reply to The God Delusion' by James A. Beverly

28th Mar 2007 : "Speaking to a sold out crowd at the Berkeley Physics Oppenheimer Lecture, Hawking said yesterday that he now believes the universe spontaneously popped into existence from nothing.

28th Mar 2007 : Sometimes you read something about this administration that is just so shameful it takes your breath away. For me, that was the March 20 article in this paper detailing how a House committee had just released documents showing "hundreds of instances in which a White House official who was previously an oil industry lobbyist edited government climate reports to play up uncertainty of a human role in global warming or play down evidence of such a role."

28th Mar 2007 : Are science and religion converging? No.

There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out to be identical to those of other scientists who call themselves atheists. Ursula Goodenough's lyrical book, The Sacred Depths of Nature, is sold as a religious book, is endorsed by theologians on the back cover, and its chapters are liberally laced with prayers and devotional meditations.

27th Mar 2007 : Roy teaches a satirical lesson in cosmology. Performed at the Skeptics Society conference.

27th Mar 2007 : Does religious belief damage the health of a society, or is it necessary to provide the moral and ethical foundations of a healthy society? Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion in discussion with Professor Alister McGrath, Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford Univ, chaired by Joan Bakewell

27th Mar 2007 : Hell is a place where sinners really do burn in an everlasting fire, and not just a religious symbol designed to galvanise the faithful, the Pope has said.

27th Mar 2007 : The liner notes to the forthcoming album "Snakes and Arrows" by the legendary rock band Rush mention The God Delusion.

27th Mar 2007 : Just exactly what is the bird flu virus doing?

27th Mar 2007 : Chuck Missler takes the misunderstanding of evolution to a whole new level.

27th Mar 2007 : We'd be better off without religion, argues AC Grayling, who is a keynote speaker in a major debate on the futility of faith in London tomorrow

26th Mar 2007 : Of all the questions facing mankind, perhaps the most fascinating is concerned with life beyond the Earth.

26th Mar 2007 : Miss Kendrick came ready, with props. The day's topic was the Gospel of Matthew. "You can divide all the Beatitudes into two parts," Jennifer Kendrick explained to her teenage audience. "The 'Blessed are the whatevers,' like 'the meek,' and then the reward they will get.

26th Mar 2007 : Members of the Christian Socialist Movement (CSM) have voted for a substantial change of direction for the Movement - one which they say will involve arguing for more radical policies in the Labour Party, a substantial challenge to the religious right, and greater efforts to explain to other Christians what they stand for.

26th Mar 2007 : A person has two hands, two legs, two eyes, two cerebral hemispheres. But it is only at first sight that a human being is a symmetric creature.

25th Mar 2007 : Happy 66th Birthday, Richard Dawkins!

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25th Mar 2007 : Science is stealing up on America's religious fundamentalists, causing much alarm. Consider the dilemma of the Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville and a leading figure in the Southern Baptist firmament.

25th Mar 2007 : Secondary school pupils in north-eastern Nigeria have killed a teacher after apparently accusing her of desecrating the Koran, police say.

25th Mar 2007 : A hundred residents of a Russian village have refused to switch to new passports because they believe the documents' bar codes contain satanic symbols, state television reported Wednesday.

25th Mar 2007 : Computers still do some things very poorly. Even when they pool their memory and processors in powerful networks, they remain unevenly intelligent.

24th Mar 2007 : NEARLY A decade and a half ago, this condemnation of fundamentalism was issued: "The fundamentalist approach is dangerous, for it is attractive to people who look to the Bible for ready answers to the problems of life . . . instead of telling them that the Bible does not necessarily contain an immediate answer to each and every problem. . . . Fundamentalism actually invites people to a kind of intellectual suicide. It injects into life a false certitude, for it unwittingly confuses the divine substance of the biblical message with what are in fact its human limitations." This robust denunciation came from the Vatican, in a 1993 document entitled "The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church."

24th Mar 2007 : TAYLORSVILLE, Utah (AP) -- For a coffee shop, T-shirts of a Mormon angel with java flowing into his trumpet are selling well. But they don't have the blessing of religious leaders.

24th Mar 2007 : An atheist has spoken of his dismay after being sidelined from discussions on how religion is taught in schools.

24th Mar 2007 : I love a good rant of rationalistic fervor. But don't get me wrong. I also appreciate a fervent, well-delivered sermon and have heard my share from quite a range of styles and theological perspectives.

24th Mar 2007 : Mice engineered to express a human photopigment gene show trichromatic vision, a process that may replicate the evolution of primate sensory systems

24th Mar 2007 : Prostitutes, perversions and public scandals – the stuff of the 21st century tabloids was familiar to readers three centuries earlier, according to new research from the University of Leeds.

24th Mar 2007 : Fresh evidence that suggests monkeys can learn skills from each other, in the same manner as humans, has been uncovered by a University of Cambridge researcher.

23rd Mar 2007 : Christopher Hitchens: "The Moral Necessity of Atheism." Convocation Hall February 23 at 4:30 p.m. Sewanee University.

23rd Mar 2007 : A sliver of four-billion-year-old sea floor has offered a glimpse into the inner workings of an adolescent Earth.

22nd Mar 2007 : A special debate between Alister McGrath, Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford University, author of "Dawkins' God" and "The Dawkins Delusion" and Peter Atkins, Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University, well-known atheist and supporter of Richard Dawkins. As seen on Channel 4's "The trouble with atheism".

22nd Mar 2007 : FRANKFURT, March 22 — A German judge has stirred a storm of protest here by citing the Koran in turning down a German Muslim woman's request for a fast-track divorce on the ground that her husband beat her.

22nd Mar 2007 : NO ONE seems to care about the upcoming attack on the World Trade Center site. Why? Because it won't involve villains with box cutters. Instead, it will involve melting ice sheets that swell the oceans and turn that particular block of lower Manhattan into an aquarium.

22nd Mar 2007 : The "Salem Hypothesis" is a description of an observed correlation between scientists who profess a belief in creation and the engineering disciplines. There are two distinct wordings of the hypothesis, each having a different implication. Both are associated with the "Salem Hypothesis" name, though.

22nd Mar 2007 : H. Allen Orr and Daniel Dennett are tearing into each other something fierce over at Edge, and it's all over Orr's dismissive review of Dawkins' The God Delusion.

22nd Mar 2007 : George Carlin on religion.

22nd Mar 2007 : Sometime, probably several billion years ago, a rocky iceball almost as large as Pluto crashed into another almost Pluto-size iceball.

22nd Mar 2007 : Damage to an area of the brain behind the forehead, inches behind the eyes, transforms the way people make moral judgments in life-or-death situations, scientists reported yesterday.