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Former Methodist pastor talks about her move to atheism
Stoyan Zaimov - National Post - 13 July 2012 Comments
A former Methodist worship and teaching pastor who served in ministry for 20 years before becoming an atheist has been appointed as the American Atheists’ public relations director. In an...
Rohan Pethiyagoda, Madhava Meegaskumbura and Kalana Maduwage - - - 13 July 2012 Comments
Etymology. The genus is named for Richard Dawkins, for his contribution to the public understanding of science and, in particular, of evolutionary science A synopsis of the South Asian fishes...
NYCA Joins in Suit to Get ‘In god We Trust’ Off Our Money
Michael Newdow - New York City Atheists - 13 July 2012 Comments
FLASH! NYCA Joins in Suit to Get ‘In god We Trust’ Off Our Money Why Shouldn’t Atheists Use the Tools Society Provides To Set Things Right? New York City Atheists is joining Dr. Michael...
Pinker's Reply on Group Selection
Steven Pinker & Richard Dawkins - The Edge - 13 July 2012 Comments
We previously linked to Steven Pinker's excellent essay on John Brockman's EDGE site, about The False Allure of Group Selection. It elicited about 20 replies from those invited to do so by John...
Eric MacDonald - Choice in Dying - 13 July 2012 Comments
Note that some may find difficulty in playing the audio clip below - going to the source site may help Jerry Coyne has been busy with professional responsibilities lately, and has not been...
Early Human Ancestor, Australopithecus sediba, Fossils Discovered in Rock
- - ScienceDaily - 13 July 2012 Comments
This is the tooth of a hominid embedded in a rock containing significant parts of a skeleton of an early human ancestor. The skeleton is believed to be the remains of "Karabo", the type skeleton of...
Scientists place 500-million-year-old gene in modern organism
- - PhysOrg.com - 12 July 2012 Comments
Postdoctoral Fellow Betül Kaçar and Associate Professor Eric Gaucher are watching evolution in action resurrecting a 500-million-year-old gene from bacteria and inserted it into modern-day...
A Blip That Speaks of Our Place in the Universe
Lawrence M. Krauss - New York Times - 12 July 2012 Comments
REVELATION A computer-generated image shows a typical proton collision of the kind that produced evidence of a particle thought to be the Higgs boson. ASPEN, Colo. — Last week, physicists...
New Pluto Moon Found—"Fringe Benefit" of Search for Risky Rings
Richard A. Lovett - National Geographic - 12 July 2012 Comments
Pluto's newest known moon, called P5 (for now), shines dimly in a Hubble Space Telescope picture. Image courtesy NASA; ESA; M. Showalter, SETI Institute Only a year after Hubble Space Telescope...
Science journalism through the looking glass
Chris Chambers and Petroc Sumner - The Guardian - 11 July 2012 Comments
Professor Peter Higgs, of Higgs boson fame, is photographed at a press conference last week following the announcement of the particle's probable discovery. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the...
Letter to Trevor Phillips, Chair of Equality and Human Rights Commission
- - Maryam Namazie - 11 July 2012 Comments
Maryam Namazie and Anne Marie Waters of One Law for All and the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain met with Trevor Phillips, Chair of Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), on 28 June to...
Existence of Atheists Offends Christians
- - Atheist Revolution - 11 July 2012 Comments
Of all the messages I've seen on atheist billboards, this has always been one of my favorites. It is brief, simple, and tells atheists that there are others like them. Oh, and it also offends...
Outline and review of arguments and controversies generated by Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion:
m - JottedLines.com - 11 July 2012 Comments
Right from the publication of his first major work “The Selfish Gene Theory”, Richard Dawkins is never free of controversy. While Dawkins is impeccable as a scholar and an academic, most of his...
- - YouTube - Misterdeity - 10 July 2012 Comments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDaYR-VUL_k&feature=player_embedded#! Timmy tells Mr. Deity that Hitch has arrived at the Pearly...
Death of scientific evidence mourned on Parliament Hill
Meagan Fitzpatrick - CBC News - 10 July 2012 Comments
Hundreds of people held a mock funeral on Parliament Hill to mourn what they call the death of evidence and the muzzling of scientists by the federal government. Scientists and their...
Evolution? I don't believe it. Haven't you heard of Nessie?
Irena Barker - TES magazine - 10 July 2012 Comments
Thanks to Jonny Scaramanga for the link They confidently claim that the Loch Ness monster disproves Darwinism and that there is clear proof of creationism. But that has not stopped a set of...
Eric Michael Johnson - Scientific American - 10 July 2012 Comments
What would it take for you to give your life to save another? The answer of course is two siblings or eight cousins, that is, if you’re thinking like a geneticist. This famous quip, attributed to...
Related birds evolve different songs and colours
Victoria Gill - BBC News - 10 July 2012 Comments
The closely related blackpoll warbler (left) and yellow warbler (right) look and sound very different. Canadian Researchers have discovered a pattern in birds' songs and plumage that help explain...
Richard Dawkins Calls Church's Tax-Exempt Status a 'Disgrace'
By Stoyan Zaimov - N. America - 10 July 2012 Comments
Renowned atheist Richard Dawkins has called the tax-exempt status given to churches a "disgrace," and has insisted that atheists and the non-religious are just as generous and good as religious...
Maryam Namazie - Maryam Namazie - 10 July 2012 Comments
Note that YouTube has flagged the video below as content unsuitable for some viewers Below is a Reuter’s report of a woman being executed near Kabul, Afghanistan by the Taliban this Sunday. It...
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