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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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Dawkins Foundation: Innovating for a Secular World. A Call to Action by Sean Faircloth, Madison, WI
Sean Faircloth - RichardDawkins.net - 12 May 2012 44 Comments
Faircloth is Dir. of Strategy & Policy, Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science, US. His book "Attack of the Theocrats: How the Religious Right Harms Us All & What We Can Do...
"We Believe" Todd Stiefel speaking at the Reason Rally
- - YouTube - ScottBurdickArt - 11 May 2012 12 Comments
To see a written transcription of this speech, go to http://www.stiefelfreethoughtfoundation.org/webelieve.html Transcribed by Chris Knight-Griffin
Press Release - The Clergy Project - 11 May 2012 10 Comments
Washington DC, Friday May 11, 2012 – The Clergy Project originated from a growing awareness of the presence of unbelieving religious leaders and a concern about their dilemma after they moved...
'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...
Crows know familiar human voices
Victoria Gill - BBC Nature - 11 May 2012 13 Comments
The researchers noted when crows turned their heads towards the sound of a familiar voice Crows recognise familiar human voices and the calls of familiar birds from other species, say...
- - Minnesota Public Radio - 11 May 2012 14 Comments
Broadcast Thursday AM, May 10 2012 We've been looking at issues pertaining to faith and public life this week, but today we are going to look at issues surrounding a lack of faith....
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...
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