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ATHEISM
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE - Chicago Tribune
Thank you for "A camp they can believe
in; Ohio's Camp Quest lets
young
atheists enjoy
summer fun with like-minded
children"
Atheists do good because it's the
right thing to do - Indianapolis
Star
What people of faith
don't realize about the majority of atheists is that we
have
faith in
each other as human beings and believe that everyone should
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Give Me Those Old-Time
Religions! - On
Faith
Susan Jacoby gives another
argument in favor of atheism, as opposed to either
polytheistic or
monotheistic religion. Atheism costs the taxpayers nothing.
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No Atheists in
foxholes? - Columbia City Paper -
Columbia,SC,USA
The Military
Association of Atheists and Freethinkers (www.maaf.info)
takes
issue
with this arrogant assumption. "Nontheistic service members
serve ...
BOOKS, MOVIES, THEATRE, TELEVISION,
VIDEOS, DVD
Christopher
Hitchens Takes on god - Newsweek Society -
MSNBC.com
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Hitchens takes on Gandhi, Billy Graham—and the Big
Guy.
Here's
a video of Richard Dawkins reading from the newpreface of the
paperback
edition
of his book, The god Delusion. He addresses the various
criticisms he
has
received. I'm
also sure you will love his jaunty
attire!
24 minute
reading:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2040224787207865440
33 minute Q&A session:
Earth Science - The New
York Sun
Dating the Earth New York
Sun | June 20, 2007
Excerpt: The title of "A
Natural
History of Time" (University of Chicago Press, 353
pages, $29)
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| Atheist
Books Edge Out Pro-Religion Books - 5/23/2007 9:13:00 AM
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EVOLUTION, CREATIONISM,
I.D.
Fast-Reproducing Microbes Provide a Window on Natural
Selection -
NYT
Evolutionary experiments on microbes are under
way in many
laboratories and scientists can observe bacteria adapt
over
40,000
generations of living in a beaker.
Evolution
Education - ScienceBlogs
Two articles on teaching evolution. The first is on
creating museum exhibitions to
showcase evolutionary biologyThe
second article is about improving how high
school biology courses teach
evolution. The article closes with a list of ten ways to improve the coverage of evolution
in introductory biology
textbooks.
SCIENCE
From
a Few Genes, Life’s Myriad Shapes - New
York Times
Evo-devo
researchers are finding that development appears to have been
one
of the
major forces shaping the history of life on
earth.
Darwin
Still Rules, but Some Biologists Dream of a Paradigm
Shift - NY Times
There are
growing calls among some evolutionary biologists for an upgrade to
Darwin, although they differ about what
form this might
take.
Humans
Have Spread Globally, and Evolved Locally - New York
Times
Modern humans
appeared 50,000 years ago, but genetic drift and natural
selection
have
recently remolded the human
clay.
Science Journal -
WSJ.com
Scientists Draw Link Between Morality And Brain's
Wiring
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND
STATE
Bush and the merger of
church and state - Salt Lake
Tribune
But nearly 40 years ago, the US
Supreme Court recognized that the Establishment
Clause, our guarantees of church-state
separation, is different. ...
Bible-based program will continue at Newton
prison - Marshalltown
Times
Republican
US District Judge Robert Pratt
issued a ruling last year, saying the
program
violates the
separation of church and state clause of the First
Amendment. ...
How Appealing - New York
Sun
Appeals Panel
Splits Three Ways on Church-State Suit
MISCELLANEOUS
The Final
Days
- New York
Times
A growing community of
amateur scholars believe that the world as we know it will
come to an end in 2012, as prophesied by the
ancient Maya. Is the New Age
apocalypse
coming round at last? |