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Nonbelievers flex their political muscles
Kimberly Winston - Religion News Service - 16 May 2012 3 Comments
One of the biggest growth areas in political activism around religion is coming from an unlikely source: the nonreligious. And it's happening far from the marbled corridors of power in the...
"Map of Life" Shows the Location of All Organisms, Large and Small
Rebecca Boyle - PopSci - 16 May 2012 5 Comments
Ever wonder exactly where grizzly bears live on this continent? Or where you might find Myotis lucifungus, the fuzzy, adorable little brown bat that is currently threatened with extinction because...
Want People to Trust Atheists More? Remind Them of Cops and Courts, Says New Study
Hemant Mehta - Friendly Atheist - 16 May 2012 12 Comments
Is there a way to get religious believers to trust atheists ? We already know we’re the least trusted minority group out there — can we change that? Researchers Will M. Gervais and Ara...
Scientific evidence proves why healers see the 'aura' of people
- - MedicalXpress.com - 15 May 2012 29 Comments
Thanks to Helga Vierich for the link Researchers in Spain have found that many of the individuals claiming to see the aura of people –traditionally called "healers" or "quacks"– actually...
Norway abolishes state sponsored Church of Norway
Sean Fraser - Digital Journal - 15 May 2012 40 Comments
In an unprecedented move, the Norwegian Parliament has voted to abolish the state sponsored Church of Norway with a constitutional amendment. The bipartisan measure to create a separation of...
Research Report: How Secular Humanists (and Everyone Else) Subsidize Religion in the United States
Ryan T. Cragun, Stephanie Yeager, and Desmond Vega - SecularHumanism.org - 16 May 2012 1 Comments
The home in the photo (right) is the $1.75 million mansion of the Reverend Randy White, the former head pastor of Without Walls International Church in Tampa, Florida. While some people may be...
Symbolism and Social Exchange Leads to Homo Sapien Expansion
Daniel Baril - Past Horizons - 16 May 2012 15 Comments
The disappearance of Neanderthals still remains a mystery, but paleoanthropologists are increasingly understanding what allowed their evolutionary cousins, Homo sapiens, to conquer the planet. ...
Conversion on Mount Improbable: How Evolution Challenges Christian Dogma
Mike Aus - RichardDawkins.net - 06 May 2012 77 Comments
Watch the video "Richard Dawkins and Mike Aus discuss The Clergy Project" at the American Atheists National Convention on March 25, 2012 here During most of my years as a liberal Protestant...
Sean Carroll - Cosmic Variance - Discover Magazine - 07 May 2012 53 Comments
“Atheism” is a fine word, and I’m happy to describe myself as an atheist. God is an idea that has consequences, and those consequences don’t accord with the world we experience any better than...
Queen 'should remain Defender of the Faith' - BBC poll
Alex Strangwayes-Booth - BBC News - 15 May 2012 61 Comments
The Queen defended the role of the Church of England in a speech at Lambeth Palace Almost 80% of people in England support a religious role for the Queen, a BBC poll suggests. In a poll by...
Will Self - BBC News Magazine - 23 April 2012 100 Comments
We chase "fast culture" at our peril - unusual words and difficult art are good for us, says Will Self. We are living in a risk-averse culture - there's no doubt about that. But the risk...
How much water is there on, in, and above the Earth?
- - USGS Water Science for Schools - 15 May 2012 26 Comments
We have linked to the USGS Water Science for Schools website for this story, even though it is written for a young readership, because it contains links to a lot of interesting background...
More African-Americans leaving religious faiths
Subrina Hudso - Intersections South LA - 15 May 2012 13 Comments
African-Americans are significantly more religious compared to the rest of the U.S. population, but a growing community of black atheists, like the Black Skeptics of Los Angeles , are steadily...
The Myth of America’s Christian Heritage
Kerry Walters - Council for Secular Humanism - 14 May 2012 26 Comments
Once they begin to circulate, falsehoods—like counterfeit currency—are surprisingly tenacious. It doesn’t matter that there’s no backing for them. The only thing that counts is that people believe...
'Save the planet', science leaders urge G8 governments
Pallab Ghosh - BBC News - Science & Environment - 11 May 2012 34 Comments
Scientists are calling on leaders to help manage the environment for the benefit of future generations Leaders of the global science community have issued joint statements to world leaders...
Stone-Throwing Chimp Thinks Ahead
ScienceNow - Wired - 14 May 2012 16 Comments
Three years ago, a stone-throwing chimpanzee named Santino jolted the research community by providing some of the strongest evidence yet that nonhumans could plan ahead. Santino, a resident of...
Ultra-Orthodox Shun Their Own for Reporting Child Sexual Abuse
Sharon Otterman & Ray Rivera - The New York Times - 11 May 2012 46 Comments
Mordechai Jungreis, right, walks his mentally disabled son, 16, home from school in Brooklyn The first shock came when Mordechai Jungreis learned that his mentally disabled teenage son was...
Secularism, priorities, Islam, and Waleed Aly
Russell Blackford - Talking Philosophy - 14 May 2012 21 Comments
What follows here after some introductory paragraphs repeats almost verbatim a post that I published over on my personal blog back in 2007. Now, my thinking has moved on a little bit since then,...
Professor Stephen Hawking quotes on God and Religion
- - age-of-the-sage.org - 02 March 2012 36 Comments
What does Professor Stephen Hawking believe in? Some quotes on God and Religion / Religious beliefs "As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe....
Why Eastern Germany is the most godless place on Earth
Matthias Kamann and Gernot Facius - Die Welt - 14 May 2012 10 Comments
Clouds gather over a church in Dresden, Germany (basterus) Bad news for all those who’d hoped Christianity might make a comeback now that the Cold War-era German Democratic Republic (DDR) is...
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