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FEATURED ARTICLES Atheist Group Files Suit to End Tax Break for Ministers First Coast News TENNESSEE -- A nationwide atheist group is asking religious leaders to take Jesus' advice and render unto Caesar what is Caesar's - especially when it comes ... http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=152114&catid=82 ATHEISM Atheism's true believers gather Sydney Morning Herald Something you will never see: an atheist boarding a plane with a bomb strapped to him, waving a copy of On The Origin Of Species, before he blows himself up ... http://www.smh.com.au/national/atheisms-true-believers-gather-20100212-nxm5.html The conscience stifled by Amnesty Times Online “Although it is said that we must defend everybody no matter what they've done, it appears that if you're a secular, atheist, Asian British woman, ... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7026143.ece Atheist billboard vandalized UPI.com 17 (UPI) -- A billboard near Sacramento promoting atheism was vandalized by someone depicting atheists as lost, one of the billboard's sponsor said. ... http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/02/17/Atheist-billboard-vandalized/UPI-73071266387409/ Don't Buy Mother Teresa Beyond Chron Rules aside, the stamp has now become the center of a national controversy, pitting atheist and “pro-life” Catholic groups against each other in a battle ... http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=7813 BOOKS, FILM, THEATRE, TV, YOU TUBE Evolution of Darwin as a family man Philadelphia Inquirer According to Collee's script, the marriage of Darwin and Emma must, ahem, evolve before the prophet of evolution can allow himself to publish his ... http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/movies/20100212_Evolution_of_Darwin_as_a_family_man.html LiveLeak.com - Separation of Church And State is being misinterpreted Separation of Church And State is being misinterpreted. CLOSE [X]. Keith Olbermann: Glenn Beck's Next Target -- Separation of Church And State ... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aef_1265961881 'Creation' evolves into smart look at Darwin St. Louis Post-Dispatch As Darwin is pulled in one direction by an atheist benefactor (Toby Jones) and in another by the family cleric (Jeremy Northam), the marriage — and the ... http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/reviews.nsf/movie/story/8A147BDA413270B7862576C600741C01?OpenDocument Bill Maher: But I'm Not Wrong Premiered - Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, and ... Associated Content The liberal host of Real Time and self-proclaimed atheist and pothead came out to the audience as his regular political discussion show theme music played ... http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2699847/bill_maher_but_im_not_wrong_premiered.html?cat=2 Atheism and sex and gender ScienceBlogs (blog) Jen has a video of Greta Christina talking about atheism and sexuality, and for several days I've been trying to get it to work…and no matter what I do, ... http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/02/atheism_and_sex_and_gender.php YouTube - Intelligent Design Is Still A Lie! "Intelligent Design Is Still A Lie" by• http://www.youtube.com/ godlesswonderParody of "Still Alive" from the game 'Portal' discussing the recent ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ4mGqLmfv8 Filmmaker: Prop. 8 movie's distribution rights sold pride source.com "I think it's a very important issue to us, not only gay marriage, but the issue of separation of church and state," said Federbush. ... http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=40118 EVOLUTION, CREATIONISM, I.D. $25M grant to MSU for bio-digital evolution center The Associated Press He said he was "extremely excited" about the prospect of bringing natural and digital evolution researchers together in one program. ... http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jKZvdYkBhlmx-vqXnsRj7WCbq5ugD9DU3HA02 SCIENCE Beyond the Abyss: Deep Sea Creatures Build Their Homes from Materials That Sink from Near the Ocean Surface ScienceDaily (Feb. 14, 2010) — Evidence from the Challenger Deep -- the deepest surveyed point in the world's oceans -- suggests that tiny single-celled creatures called foraminifera living at extreme depths of more than ten kilometres build their homes using material that sinks down from near the ocean surface... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100211100758.htm Breakthrough for Mobile Television ScienceDaily (Feb. 14, 2010) — Long Term Evolution, a new mobile telecommunications standard, is poised to revolutionize mobile Internet. High transmission rates will soon be possible on mobile devices. For this purpose Fraunhofer researchers at HHI Berlin developed the cross-layer design SVC over LTE... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100212101253.htm New Fiber Nanogenerators Could Lead to Electric Clothing ScienceDaily (Feb. 13, 2010) — In research that gives literal meaning to the term "power suit," University of California, Berkeley, engineers have created energy-scavenging nanofibers that could one day be woven into clothing and textiles... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100212141246.htm Genetic Secrets to Jumping the Species Barrier ScienceDaily (Feb. 13, 2010) — Scientists have pinpointed specific mutations that allow a common plant virus to infect new species, according to research published in the March issue of the Journal of General Virology... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100211211439.htm Nanoscale Structures With Superior Mechanical Properties Developed ScienceDaily (Feb. 13, 2010) — Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a way to make some notoriously brittle materials ductile -- yet stronger than ever -- simply by reducing their size... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100209183137.htm Male College Students Also Victims of Violence at Girlfriends' Hands ScienceDaily (Feb. 13, 2010) — Thinking about a typical victim of college dating violence, you're probably imagining her, not him... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100212112028.htm Saturn's Aurora Offer Stunning Double Show ScienceDaily (Feb. 12, 2010) — An enormous and grand ringed planet, Saturn is certainly one of the most intriguing bodies orbiting the Sun. Hubble has now taken a fresh look at the fluttering aurorae that light up both of Saturn's poles... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100211111537.htm NASA Successfully Launches a New Eye on the Sun ScienceDaily (Feb. 11, 2010) — NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, lifted off Feb. 11 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 41 on a first-of-a-kind mission to reveal the sun's inner workings in unprecedented detail... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100211152456.htm SEPARATION CHURCH / STATE Mexican Church and State Go Nose to Nose Over Who Can Marry Who CounterPunch Separation of Church and State as mandated by the Mexican Constitution has narrowed dramatically in the ten years that the PAN has held the presidency. ... http://www.counterpunch.org/ross02122010.html Should government get out of the marriage business? Salt Lake Tribune And the added separation between church and state would bolster religious liberty. All couples, gay or straight, would have equal access to state and ... http://www.sltrib.com/faith/ci_14374738 Oregon debates ending ban on teachers wearing religious clothing in the classroom National Post (blog) Today there are still fights over religious celebrations in schools and teaching creationism or intelligent design, he said. “I would be concerned about ... http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/holy-post/archive/2010/02/14/oregon-debates-ending-ban-on-teachers-wearing-religious-clothing-in-the-classroom.aspx How Christian Were the Founders? NYTimes - By RUSSELL SHORTO A WEEK before the Senate seat of the liberal icon Edward M. Kennedy fell into Republican hands, his legacy suffered another blow that was perhaps just as damaging, if less noticed. It happened during what has become an annual spectacle in the culture wars... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/magazine/14texbooks-t.html?th&emc=th Senator seeks to open public schools to religious views Denver Post ... the speech left the perception that the school endorsed a particular religious belief, a no-no thanks to the separation of church and state, Rubin said. ... http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_14398399 The Eyes of America Are on Texas District Administration Groups such as the Texas Freedom Network and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State advocated for balanced standards free of religious bias ... http://www.districtadministration.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=2312 Public funding for Christian youth centre sparks criticism National Post WINNIPEG -- An MP is picking a fight over the separation of church and state, blasting a proposal to give government funding to a Christian group that wants ... http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2582606 Bible Study in Kentucky Schools? WTVQ Boswell claims the legislation does not cross the line between separation of church and state. "There are state and federal laws on the books that govern ... http://www.wtvq.com/news/2309-bible-study-in-kentucky-schools MISCELLANEOUS Dutch Protestant church declines to discipline rebel pastor Ekklesia By Ecumenical News International A self-proclaimed atheist can continue to serve as a local pastor of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, ... http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/11264 =========================== |