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I'm tired of being told to shut up about what I think. I am especially tired of being told to shut up about what I think by people who think I am actually right. Don't get me wrong. I am not tired of being disagreed with. I am not tired of people coming forward and passionately arguing that I am wrong. I am not tired of …

It happened. Bill Nye faced off against Ken Ham to discuss evolution versus creation. Though this had been strongly advised against, it carried on as planned. Of course, it should have because the fallout of pulling out a debate would have been worse than the debate itself. So what happened during the debate? Did it …

Ken Ham began his 5 min intro in the debate with Bill Nye with a quote from our very own Dan Arel. His article about why Bill Nye should debate him garnered alot of attention, especially from Ken himself as well as other new outlets.   Did you miss the debate?  Watch it below! Written By: RDFRScontinue to source …

What is it about the decision by Channel 4 News to censor a Jesus and Mo cartoon that makes it wrong? In essence the decision is wrong because it implies that the request that no depiction of Mohammad be shown is a reasonable one, whereas by all normal standards of the secular West the request …

We are so excited and proud to have Robyn Blumner as our new executive director and we all look forward to working with her. However, we have not forgotten that she also works for you! So as Robyn steps into this new role at RDFRS, we want to ask you: What changes, actions, campaigns would …

Preparing for this article, I googled the word “meme” and generated 78,000,000 results! Looking back on 2013, the BBC published an article on-line listing its selection of the leading memes of the past year. Anyone who spends any amount of time surfing the internet will almost certainly have come across examples of that rather disreputable …

You might be wondering what a syndicated newspaper columnist and editorial writer is doing as the new executive director of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. At the newspaper, I was a close observer of the Religious Right and how it sought — often successfully — to insinuate religion into public policy. A …

Following on from the huge success of the first Starmus “50 years in space” festival in Tenerife in June, 2011, which featured keynote presentations from Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Jim Lovell, Alexei Leonov, Richard Dawkins, Kip Thorne and George Smoot. We are very pleased to announce the second Starmus 2014 Festival, the finest combination of …

Young Regan becomes possessed by a demon named Pazuzu because of a Ouija board and proceeds to projectile vomit on a priest. Naive Rosemary begins to believe that her husband has made a dark pact with their occult neighbors to further his acting career and later discovers that she was unwittingly used as a vessel …

Written By: Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay   Excitement is building rapidly for a public debate between science educator Bill Nye, “The Science Guy,” and Christian Young-Earth creationist Ken Ham, president and CEO of Answers in Genesis—the ministry behind the nationally embarrassing Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky. The event is to be held at the …

This week we looked at the welfare of animals and speciesism. Let us know how science forms your opinions on animal rights and well being. Deadline for the contest is February 4, 2014 Winners receive a copy of An Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins. Written By: RDFRScontinue to source article at

We're pleased to announce that Mr. Deity is coming to the Richard Dawkins Foundation! We'll feature the comedy video web series every few weeks. To start, here's an interview with Brian Dalton, who plays God, a bumbling and insensitive deity who is barely getting by with all his baggage and responsibilities. It's a great way to poke fun at …