What we really know about our evolutionary past – and what we don’t

Magic at Every Age
A review of Richard Dawkins, The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True

In front of a packed crowd during his panel titled "My Two Years with Dawkins, Christ and a Small Crab Called Eric" at Comic-Con International in San Diego, artist, writer and indie filmmaker Dave McKean recounted two recent life events on radically opposite ends of the philosophical spectrum: an all-ages book he illustrated with scientist and Atheism proponent Richard Dawkins called "The Magic of Reality," and a film he shot starring Michael Sheen in Port Talbot, Wales called "The Gospel of Us," a modern day interpretation of "The Passion" story chronicling Jesus Christ's final days of life on Earth.

Last weekend I noticed two religion blogs, one Jewish and one evangelical (though not fundamentalist) Christian, discussing the same passages in the Bible: the ones commanding the Israelites to fight, slaughter, enslave, and dispossess the Canaanite inhabitants of the Land of Israel. To commit genocide, in fact.

Review of The Magic of Reality

A review of The Future of Blasphemy Speaking of the Sacred in an Age of Human Rights
by Austin Dacey

Center for Inquiry has launched a petition at the White House website asking the Obama administration to call upon the Indonesian government to immediately release Alexander and better protect the rights to freedom of expression and belief for religious dissidents and nonbelievers.

“Being an atheist should not be a crime,” declares CFI.

Press Release

Atheist group sues Rochester Hills country club over canceled speech

Rep. Pete Stark Issues National Day of Reason Proclamation