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“How do atheists know how to be good? How does anybody know how to be good? Should you simply “give a little whistle, and always let your conscience be your guide,” as Jiminy Cricket counseled Pinocchio? Conscience is defined as a “moral sense,” but what is that, exactly? Is it a physical sense? Do we …

“One of the most ridiculous claims that has gained currency among some Religious Right advocates is that the Constitution doesn’t provide for separation of church and state because the phrase “separation of church and state” is not itself in the Constitution. What these persons fails to understand is that it would have been redundant to …

Genes work by controlling protein synthesis. This is a powerful way of manipulating the world, but it is slow. It takes months of patiently pulling protein strings to build an embryo. The whole point about behaviour, on the other hand, is that it is fast. It works on a time-scale not of months but of …

This is a collection of the 10 best and most popular stories from science and technology over the past 7 days. Scroll down and click the individual images below to read the stories and follow the This Week in Science on Wakelet (here) to get these weekly updates straight to your inbox every Sunday.

Why is the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science merging with the Center for Inquiry? Quite simply, CFI and RDFRS have similar objectives and it makes eminent good sense to combine their resources. CFI’s stated mission is to foster a secular society based on reason, science, and humanist values, and RDFRS shares that goal. …

Contact: Paul Fidalgo, Communications Director [email protected] – 207-358-9785 Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science to Merge with Center for Inquiry Robyn Blumner to Become President and CEO of Center for Inquiry The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science and the Center for Inquiry, two of the world’s most respected freethought institutions, have announced …

This week’s question comes from Mark C who asks, “[Hypothetically] if a group of scientists conducted artificial selection over millions of years, could they take an organism and selectively breed it into any other organism? A question of genetic potential (a cat to dog, yeast to chimp), are there any limits to the ‘direction’ evolution …

Now we come to a piece of genuine uncertainty and a spectrum of opinion among biologists. At one extreme are those who feel that we can take genetic variation more-or-less for granted. If the selection pressure exists, they feel, there will always be enough genetic variation to accommodate it. The trajectory of a lineage in …

This is a collection of the 10 best and most popular stories from science and technology over the past 7 days. Scroll down and click the individual images below to read the stories and follow the This Week in Science on Wakelet (here) to get these weekly updates straight to your inbox every Sunday.

This week’s question comes from Peter. He asks, “Is there an evolutionary explanation as to why some groups seem more particularly prone to take life and give their own lives in defense of their religion?” Our favorite answer will win a copy of An Appetite for Wonder” by Richard Dawkins.   Send your question submissions …