20th Nov 2008 : Everybody has this image of "crazy Christians" based on what they hear in the media, but it's just not true. Most Christians are normal, decent folks. We don't all blindly follow a bunch of outdated biblical tenets or go all fanatical about every bit of dogma.

19th Nov 2008 : We should see the ceaseless creativity of nature as sacred, argues biologist Stuart Kauffman, despite what Richard Dawkins might say.

19th Nov 2008 : The winning lottery number in Illinois was 666, which, as everyone knows, is the sign of the Beast.

19th Nov 2008 : As Republicans sort out the reasons for their defeat, they likely will overlook or dismiss the gorilla in the pulpit.

18th Nov 2008 : Struggling to choose the top religion? Can't decide between Bible-thumping evangelism or benign, gentle Buddhism? Make the process fun and easy with God Trumps, our cut-out-and-keep metaphysical card game for all the family. Cartoons by Martin Rowson.

17th Nov 2008 : For Darwin's 200th birthday celebrations next year, record a YouTube clip talking about your work and how Darwin has impacted or influenced what you do. The YouTube clip should conclude with you saying "I am Darwin!"

17th Nov 2008 : Dr.Seth Shostak co host of Are We Alone? interviews Sam Harris on the biology of belief.

17th Nov 2008 : It’s not easy not believing in God in the USA. That’s why a group of non-believers is trying to shed the strident image of past atheists by promoting a better side of those sitting on religion’s sidelines.

16th Nov 2008 : University-educated Catholics are to blame for the crisis in the Church and the growth of secularism, according to the bishop charged with tackling the decline in Mass attendance.

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16th Nov 2008 : Professor Hired for Outreach to Muslims Delivers a Jolt

16th Nov 2008 : As the dust settles on Washington following the Barack Obama earthquake, one group more than any other is expecting to be out in the cold.

15th Nov 2008 : Albuquerque, N.M., is no different from any other American city, in terms of its religious life; you've got churches, synagogues, a couple of Unitarian congregations and a mosque. But an abandoned gas station along old Route 66 is the unlikely home for another kind of Sunday-morning service, and it's one that you won't find anywhere else. It's called the Church of Beethoven.

15th Nov 2008 : SC Roman Catholic priest says Obama supporters shouldn't receive Holy Communion

14th Nov 2008 : Karen Armstrong, a religious thinker I can admire and support, has begun a project called the "Charter for Compassion." The aim of the project, as far as I can tell while observing it in its initial stages, is to promote the golden rule.

13th Nov 2008 : I have been a Mormon my whole life. But after the church's campaign of hatred to ban gay marriage, I finally renounced my membership.

13th Nov 2008 : A poet has been forced to launch his new collection in the street after a bookstore cancelled the event because of a campaign by Christian activists.

13th Nov 2008 : The country's lack of religious freedom betrays its lofty rhetoric. The real aim of its 'dialogue' is to promote a global blasphemy law.

13th Nov 2008 : Academic and scientist Richard Dawkins proves a true intellect during this course of interviews and no topic proves too daunting, covering debates on faith and politics.

12th Nov 2008 : The nation's Catholic bishops decided yesterday to fire an opening salvo at the incoming Obama administration, pledging to work with the new president on issues such as immigration and healthcare but also warning that the Catholic Church will do everything it can to oppose his support for abortion rights.

11th Nov 2008 : "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake," proclaims a new holiday ad from the American Humanist Association.

10th Nov 2008 : Mary is a pretty five-year-old girl with big brown eyes and a father who kicked her out onto the streets in one of the most dangerous parts of the world. Her crime: the local priest had denounced her as a witch and blamed her "evil powers" for causing her mother's death.

10th Nov 2008 : JUST days after Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced tough new measures to name and shame foreign-based extremists and prevent them coming from abroad to stir up hatred in the UK, firebrand preacher Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad cocked a snook at her new initiative, the Evening Standard can reveal.

9th Nov 2008 : Barack Obama will move swiftly to unpick many of what he sees as the most egregious acts of the Bush administration when he enters the White House in January, including restrictions on stem cell research and moves to allow oil drilling in wilderness areas, a leading member of his transition team said yesterday.

7th Nov 2008 : Does atheism make you mean?

7th Nov 2008 : Social networks also exist for atheists, including Atheist Passions and RichardDawkins.net.

6th Nov 2008 : We are now proud to present you with a motley crew of nine servants to the cause of unreason, who you can single out by voting in the poll.

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5th Nov 2008 : Victory for an array of donating conservative organizations, including the Knights of Columbus, Focus on the Family and the American Family Assn., along with tens of thousands of small donors, including many who responded to urging from Mormon, Catholic and evangelical clergy.

5th Nov 2008 : Religion has a funny way of dividing people. But religious fervor and intolerance may also keep you from getting sick, according to evolutionary biologists Corey Fincher and Randy Thornhill of the University of New Mexico.

5th Nov 2008 : Isn't it pathetic that in this day and age, in this country founded on the idea of religious liberty, whose settlers came here to avoid religious persecution, that one could be criticized for one's religious beliefs or lack of beliefs?

5th Nov 2008 : The Obama presidency is great news for almost everyone. It's bad news for some odd ideological bedfellows: the Religious Right and the so-called New Atheists.

5th Nov 2008 : More than 1,500 people went to Temple Emanu-El, one of the largest synagogues in the world, on Wednesday evening for a wide-ranging debate on that age-old question.

4th Nov 2008 : A bookmaker has slashed its odds on proof being found of God's existence to just 4-1.

4th Nov 2008 : "He is the anti-preacher whose sermons are designed to erode churchgoing and, with that, weaken our happiness."

4th Nov 2008 : A young woman recently stoned to death in Somalia first pleaded for her life, a witness has told the BBC.

4th Nov 2008 : Today is the day.

3rd Nov 2008 : GROWING UP IN AMERICA’S MOST HATED FAMILY

2nd Nov 2008 : The evangelical movement is fearful on many fronts, Mark Hennessy discovers in Colorado Springs

2nd Nov 2008 : The idea of intelligent fundamentalists, like the theory of intelligent design, does not stand up to 30 seconds' scrutiny.

31nd Oct 2008 : Atheism will always be a harder sell than religion, Pascal Boyer explains, because a slew of cognitive traits predispose us to faith.

31nd Oct 2008 : What is being taught to muslims about non muslims in islamic schools.

30th Oct 2008 : All the signs are there: religion will die. I'm just sorry I won't be around to see it

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29th Oct 2008 : We are made to believe that religion is merely about faith, spirituality and morality, without which humanity will lack any sense of ethics, goodness and humanity.

29th Oct 2008 : A woman in Somalia has been stoned to death after an Islamic Sharia law court found her guilty of adultery.

29th Oct 2008 : Frank Turek, co-author of "I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist," and Christopher Hitchens, author of "god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything," met at VCU in Richmond, VA to debate the subject, "Does God Exist?"

29th Oct 2008 : Belief in the paranormal reflects normal brain activity carried to an extreme.

29th Oct 2008 : Falling behind in her reelection race, Sen. Elizabeth Dole has uncorked one hell of a charge: The Democrat running against me is godless.

29th Oct 2008 : Confirmed atheist Richard Dawkins was forced onto the defensive yesterday after he died but subsequently rose from the dead in a miraculous resurrection, much like that of the son of God Jesus Christ.

28th Oct 2008 : The GOP ticket's appalling contempt for knowledge and learning.

27th Oct 2008 : Prominent atheist Richard Dawkins speaks to Premier’s Justin Brierley.

27th Oct 2008 : When we are young we use our fantasy world of magic and myth to grapple with fears about life, death and danger

26th Oct 2008 : Understanding why people are religious isn't hard, and it has little to do with the existence of God

25th Oct 2008 : He sold 1.5m copies of The God Delusion, and this week stumped up £5,500 for atheist adverts. So why does Richard Dawkins think science is losing its war with religion?

24th Oct 2008 : From Tim's fantastic DVD 'So Live'

24th Oct 2008 : The bus-funders are young people who feel that no one is listening to them

23rd Oct 2008 : Thank you! Now you've made the campaign such an extraordinary success, we all need to think about what to do next

23rd Oct 2008 : Featuring over 4 hours of Dawkins at his best on Science, Religion, and everything in between.

23rd Oct 2008 : It's the smell I remember. Shahnaz's face – what was left of it – reeked of a day-old barbecue, left out in the rain.

22nd Oct 2008 : An Afghanistan appeals court overturns the death sentence for Parwez Kambakhsh, who circulated an article about the rights of women under Islam.

22nd Oct 2008 : They are attempting to resurrect Cartesian dualism - the idea that brain and mind are two fundamentally different kinds of things, material and immaterial - in the hope that it will make room in science both for supernatural forces and for a soul.

22nd Oct 2008 : For several years, a coalition of Islamic states--aided by Russia, China, Cuba, and a group of developing countries--has placed the "defamation of religions" high on the U.N. human rights agenda.

22nd Oct 2008 : Contrary to the views of many conservative pundits and the Christian Right, the least religious countries in the world today are not full of chaos and immorality, but are actually among the safest, healthiest, most well-educated, prosperous, ethical, and successful societies on earth.

21st Oct 2008 : A giant leap of faith took Jonathan Edwards to Olympic glory in Sydney. Then he found the foundations of his life were crumbling

21st Oct 2008 : It's real, it's happening: you can sponsor the first atheist advert on a bus - and Richard Dawkins will match your money

20th Oct 2008 : Richard Dawkins is interviewed by Bill Heine on BBC Radio Oxford about the success of The God Delusion, the recent Sony video game fiasco, his retirement from Oxford and more.

20th Oct 2008 : A clip from "Now on PBS". A right wing religious woman and her reasons for disliking Barack Obama.

19th Oct 2008 : As a fresh wave of sectarian violence is unleashed across the Indian state of Orissa, Gethin Chamberlain talks to homeless survivors in Kandhamal district who were forced to abandon their religion.

19th Oct 2008 : AC Grayling and the Council of Ex-Muslims are distorting the picture and undermining efforts to bring change

19th Oct 2008 : At a gathering of courageous ex-Muslims, the value of rational thought and personal choice were triumphantly reaffirmed.

18th Oct 2008 : Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced that it is recalling the game from retailers after it learned that the soundtrack featured some Arabic-language lines from the Qur'an backed with music.

18th Oct 2008 : It is an article of faith (except, of course, among those who actually have a faith) that the dethronement of God by the apostles of secularism has ushered in an age of reason. Belief in the Almighty is now widely held to be a priori evidence of primitive stupidity.

17th Oct 2008 : Fortunately, [atheists'] views aren't likely to become public policy anytime soon, and certainly not in the United States (after all, look how well they worked in the Soviet Union).

17th Oct 2008 : Skeptics unite: You have nothing to lose but your inhibitions.

17th Oct 2008 : This is the Apocalypse of St. Bill the Stoned.

16th Oct 2008 : John Podhoretz's review of Religulous, Directed by Larry Charles

It is the thesis of the new nonfiction film Religulous that religion is a "neurological disorder," and that "belief must be destroyed so that mankind might live."

16th Oct 2008 : A US judge has thrown out a case against God, ruling that because the defendant has no address, legal papers cannot be served.

15th Oct 2008 : Some of you may remember John Lennox from his debate with Richard Dawkins last year, or the conversation between Lennox and Dawkins this July. This interview was conducted by Tim Bearder on BBC Radio Oxford.

14th Oct 2008 : Nearly 300 people came together to discuss issues ranging from apostasy, the freedom to criticise and renounce religion, Sharia law and civil society and creationism, faith schools and religious education.

14th Oct 2008 : Ricky Gervais, the multi award-winning writer, director and star of The Office and Extras is a well-known atheist and was recently made an honorary associate of the National Secular Society following a friendly but frank exchange of views with Rowan Williams on the radio.

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14th Oct 2008 : Professor Richard Dawkins has lately retired from his chair at Oxford. It is not often that a senior academic becomes a household name; and the end of his tenure seems a suitable time to reflect upon his fame and achievements.

13th Oct 2008 : Richard Dawkins at Conservative Humanist Association launch event at The Conservative Party Conference 2008 in Birmingham

11th Oct 2008 : "A clergyman in charge of education for the country's leading scientific organisation - it's a Monty Python sketch," pronounced Britain's top atheist, Richard Dawkins, recently.

6th Oct 2008 : Last month a Georgia woman named DeShan Fishel was driving near a school and saw a Jeep rush past a stop signal on a school bus, clipping a 5-year-old boy. The other driver sped away.

10th Oct 2008 : The United States is failing to develop the math skills of both girls and boys, especially among those who could excel at the highest levels, a new study asserts, and girls who do succeed in the field are almost all immigrants or the daughters of immigrants from countries where mathematics is more highly valued.

10th Oct 2008 : So it comes as a bit of a shocker when physicists say the Universe is built on broken symmetry.

10th Oct 2008 : Pup carried by Atlantic blacktip shark contained no male genetic material

9th Oct 2008 : His job is to try to hold the Anglican church together through its darkest days for centuries. So why on earth did the Archbishop of Canterbury take last summer off to write about Dostoevsky? He told Stuart Jeffries

9th Oct 2008 : Newly evolved "superworms" that feast on toxic waste could help cleanse polluted industrial land, a new study says.

9th Oct 2008 : A clever trick borrowed from jellyfish has earned two Americans and one Japanese scientist a share of the chemistry Nobel Prize.

8th Oct 2008 : Hansjorg Wyss MBA '65 has given Harvard University $125 million to create the Hansjorg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.

8th Oct 2008 : Programmers try to fool human interrogators

8th Oct 2008 : Small stretches of seemingly useless DNA harbor a big secret, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

8th Oct 2008 : At a Christian 'boot camp' in the US, those struggling to reconcile faith and sexuality are taught to overcome gayness

8th Oct 2008 : There are certain events which have such an impact on the world that they become known simply by the name of the place where they happen. Waco is one of them

7th Oct 2008 : Our universe may have started not with a big bang but with a big bounce-an implosion that triggered an explosion, all driven by exotic quantum-gravitational effects