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Document 10 Lectures on Darwin's Legacy • Stanford University • 5th Jan 2009

10 lectures of around two hours each from the Continuing Studies Program at Stanford University.

Document Assassins of the Mind • Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair • 5th Jan 2009

When Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa on novelist Salman Rushdie for The Satanic Verses, it was the opening shot in a war on cultural freedom. Two decades later, the violence continues, and Muslim fundamentalists have gained a new advantage: media self-censorship.

Document Atheists have moral reflections too • Sue Blackmore • 4th Jan 2009

An online petition is hoping to persuade BBC editors to open up Thought for the Day to non-believers

Document Ancient African Exodus Mostly Involved Men, Geneticists Find • Science Daily • 4th Jan 2009

Now, researchers have revealed that men and women weren't equal partners in that exodus. By tracing variations in the X chromosome and in the non-sex chromosomes, the researchers found evidence that men probably outnumbered women in that migration.

Document 15 Evolutionary gems • Nature, Pharyngula • 3rd Jan 2009

This week, Nature magazine published a short list of recent important developments in evolutionary biology that support the theory of evolution, as a tool to help explain that evolution is definitely a dynamic and useful theory in our field and to demonstrate that the evidence is still growing.

Document Vatican divorces from Italian law • BBC • 2nd Jan 2009

The Vatican City State, the world's smallest sovereign state, has decided to divorce itself from Italian law.

Document Teen trained to be suicide bomber feels tricked • CNN • 2nd Jan 2009

A 14-year-old who was trained to kill by radicals in the tribal regions of Pakistan now sits in a crowded classroom at a detention facility in Kabul.

Document What Will Change Everything? • Edge.org • 1st Jan 2009

What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?

Document Atheists Sue to Get Prayer, God Out of Obama's Swearing-In • Nikita Stewart, Washington Post • 31st Dec 2008

A group of atheists filed a lawsuit yesterday to bar prayer and references to God at the swearing-in of President-elect Barack Obama.

Document For Good Self-Control, Try Getting Religious About It • John Tierney, NY Times • 31st Dec 2008

If I’m serious about keeping my New Year’s resolutions in 2009, should I add another one? Should the to-do list include, “Start going to church”?

Document Competition, Not Climate Change, Led To Neanderthal Extinction, Study Shows • Science Daily • 31st Dec 2008

In a recently conducted study, a multidisciplinary French-American research team with expertise in archaeology, past climates, and ecology reported that Neanderthal extinction was principally a result of competition with Cro-Magnon populations, rather than the consequences of climate change.

Document Darwin shouldn't be hijacked by New Atheists - he is an ethical inspiration • Madeleine Bunting, Guardian • 29th Dec 2008

Next year's anniversaries of this great British scientist must explore beyond the usual squabbling over faith

Document The New Atheism, a definition and a quiz • Andrew Brown, Guardian • 29th Dec 2008

Since this is the season for warmed up leftovers and presents not entirely appreciated, I thought I would try to define the New Atheism that I, and others, so dislike.

Document No More Atheophobia • atheophobia.blogspot.com • 29th Dec 2008

Atheists have long been looked down upon and criticised for their beliefs. While open debate as to whether God exists is widespread, so are prejudiced views that paint atheists as lesser people.

Document Wanted: More science and math teachers in the US • Yahoo News • 29th Dec 2008

"We desperately need more qualified ... science and math teachers, because of retirement,... overcrowded classrooms ... and people teaching out of [their] field"

Document Astronomers Aim to Grasp Mysterious Dark Matter • Space.com • 29th Dec 2008

For the past quarter century, dark matter has been a mystery we've just had to live with. But the time may be getting close when science can finally unveil what this befuddling stuff is that makes up most of the matter in the universe.

Document For scholars, a combustible question: Was Christ real? • TheStar.com • 29th Dec 2008

New effort aims to avoid circus of 'Jesus Seminar' while probing deeper than past attempts

Document Darwin's dangerous idea: Top 10 evolution articles • New Scientist • 28th Dec 2008

Here, in case you missed them, are New Scientist's top 10 in-depth articles about evolution.

Document Heaven for the Godless? • Charles M. Blow, NY Times • 28th Dec 2008

But I don’t think that they are ignorant about this most basic tenet of their faith. I think that they are choosing to ignore it ... for goodness sake.

Document My Christmas message? There's probably no God • Polly Toynbee, The Guardian • 27th Dec 2008

It is neither emotionally nor spiritually deficient to reject religions that seek to infantilise us with impossible beliefs

Document Scientific illiteracy all the rage among the glitterati • Independent • 27th Dec 2008

The Celebrities and Science Review 2008, prepared by the group Sense About Science, identifies some of the worst examples of scientific illiteracy among those who profess to know better – including top politicians.

Document Richard Dawkins: On The Big Questions this week • BBC • 27th Dec 2008

If you would like to join the audience on The Big Questions please contact us.

Document God: Philosophers Weigh In • Alex Byrne, Boston Review • 26th Dec 2008

God has had a lot of bad press recently. The four horsemen of atheism, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, have all published books sharply critical of belief in God...

Document Hobbyists try genetic engineering at home • MSNBC • 26th Dec 2008

Critics worry amateurs could unleash an environmental or medical disaster

Document 2008: A good year for Neanderthals • New Scientist • 26th Dec 2008

For a species that went extinct more than 25,000 years ago, 2008 has been a hell of a year for Neanderthals.

Document The Ten Days of Newton • Olivia Judson, NY Times • 24th Dec 2008

Some years ago, the evolutionist and atheist Richard Dawkins pointed out to me that Sir Isaac Newton, the founder of modern physics and mathematics, and arguably the greatest scientist of all time, was born on Christmas Day, and that therefore Newton’s Birthday could be an alternative, if somewhat nerdy, excuse for a winter holiday.

Document Origin Of Life On Earth: Simple Fusion To Jump-start Evolution • Science Daily • 23rd Dec 2008

With the aid of a straightforward experiment, researchers have provided some clues to one of biology's most complex questions: how ancient organic molecules came together to form the basis of life.

Document Would you Adam and Eve it? Quarter of science teachers would teach creationism (Response by Dawkins and Jones) • Guardian, Richard Dawkins, Steve Jones • 23rd Dec 2008

More than a quarter of science teachers in state schools believe that creationism should be taught alongside evolution in science lessons, according to a national poll of primary and secondary teachers.

Document Archaeological Discovery: Earliest Evidence Of Our Cave-dwelling Human Ancestors • Science Daily • 22nd Dec 2008

A research team led by Professor Michael Chazan, director of the University of Toronto's Archaeology Centre, has discovered the earliest evidence of our cave-dwelling human ancestors at the Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa.

Document Obama cranks up the green revolution • The Independent • 22nd Dec 2008

The next US president is reversing Republican policy on global warming by putting leading scientists in key posts. Geoffrey Lean reports

Document Florida Woman Says Former Church Plans to Make Her Sins Public • Fox News • 22nd Dec 2008

A 49-year-old Florida woman says her former church is threatening to reveal her sins to its congregation after learning that she is in a "sexually immoral relationship."

Document Saudi court tells girl aged EIGHT she cannot divorce husband who is 50 years her senior • Daily Mail • 22nd Dec 2008

A Saudi court has rejected a plea to divorce an eight-year-old girl married off by her father to a man who is 58, saying the case should wait until the girl reaches puberty.

Document Scientology refuseniks sue over compulsory workplace courses • The Register • 22nd Dec 2008

Two ex-employees of Diskeeper have sued the firm over allegations they were obliged to take part in Scientology training courses as a mandatory condition of employment.

Document Most 'do not believe in nativity' • BBC • 20th Dec 2008

The majority of Britons do not believe the Biblical story of the birth of Jesus, a survey has suggested.

Document Religious Ed. rebellion • National Post • 20th Dec 2008

Quebec parents pull students out of new class

Document Secularists' vital war on religion • AC Grayling • 20th Dec 2008

As long as religion is a danger to the lives and liberties of others, secular liberals will never relent in their protests

Document Is Yahweh a Moral Monster? • Evangelical Philosophical Society • 20th Dec 2008

The New Atheists and Old Testament Ethics

Document Jimmy Carr on Richard Dawkins • Psychologies Magazine • 20th Dec 2008

The comedian tells how the Oxford don and evolutionary biologist made him question his faith

Document Poll Finds No Boost in Church Attendance during Economic Crisis • The Christian Post • 19th Dec 2008

While tens of thousands of Americans have been laid off in recent months and religious leaders have blamed corporate greed for the economic crisis, churches have not seen a jump in attendance numbers as many might have expected, according to a new poll.

Document Obama Chooses Divisive Inaugural Pastor • Secular Coalition For America • 19th Dec 2008

President-elect Obama announced the program for his inauguration this week, and it begins with an invocation from the Rev. Rick Warren, an evangelical mega church pastor.

Document Many Americans Say Other Faiths Can Lead to Eternal Life • Pew Research • 19th Dec 2008

Most Christians Say Non-Christian Faiths Can Lead to Salvation

Document 'Seeing' The Quantum World: How A Quantum Computer Would Work • Science Daily • 19th Dec 2008

Quantum physics is both mysterious and difficult to grasp. Barry Sanders, director of the U of C’s Institute for Quantum Information Science, is hoping to change that.

Document Earth Not Center Of The Universe, Surrounded By 'Dark Energy': Cosmologists Report • PhysOrg.com • 19th Dec 2008

Earth's location in the Universe is utterly unremarkable, despite recent theories that propose toppling a foundation of modern cosmology, according to a team of University of British Columbia researchers.

Document New 'Molecular Memory' Only 10 Atoms Thick: Massive Storage Possible • Science Daily • 18th Dec 2008

A team at Rice University has determined that a strip of graphite only 10 atoms thick can serve as the basic element in a new type of memory, making massive amounts of storage available for computers, handheld media players, cell phones and cameras.

Document 'Tis the Season To Be Incredulous • Christohper Hitchens, Slate • 18th Dec 2008

The moral and aesthetic nightmare of Christmas.

Document What Came Before The Big Bang? Interpreting Asymmetry In Early Universe • Science Daily • 18th Dec 2008

Now, astrophysicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) think that their new theoretical interpretation of an imprint from the earliest stages of the universe may also shed light on what came before.

Document Giant Dinosaur Fossil Found in Sahara Desert • LiveScience.com • 18th Dec 2008

Paleontologists claim they have unearthed a new type of pterosaur and a previously unknown sauropod dinosaur in the Sahara Desert.

Document Life's founding organism kept its cool, researchers say • Canada.com • 18th Dec 2008

A team of Canadian and French scientists has shed new light on what's being called the Earth's "last universal common ancestor," the 3.8-billion-year-old microscopic organism from which all living things - bacteria and humans and sunflowers alike - evolved.

Document Mekong a 'treasure trove' of 1,000 newly discovered species • CNN • 16th Dec 2008

A rat believed to be extinct for 11 million years, a spider with a foot-long legspan, and a hot pink cyanide-producing "dragon millipede" are among the thousand newly discovered species in the largely unexplored Mekong Delta region.

Document Report urges timetable for human mission to Mars • New Scientist • 16th Dec 2008

The Obama administration should set a concrete schedule for human Mars missions, and make sure new hardware developed for NASA's return to the Moon can be adapted for missions to other destinations, a new report says.

Document The Latest Face of Creationism in the Classroom • Scientific American, Glenn Branch, Eugenie C. Scott • 16th Dec 2008

Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises

Document Saturn moon Titan may have active ice volcanoes • Yahoo • 15th Dec 2008

Observations from the international Cassini spacecraft suggest Saturn's largest moon may have active or recently active ice volcanoes.

Document Three Godless Christmas shows • The Independent, Richard Dawkins, Ricky Gervais • 15th Dec 2008

Forget Nativity plays, a different kind of Christmas show is coming to town. And with a talk by Richard Dawkins and stand-up by Ricky Gervais, it's a gift for the non-believer, says Julian Hall

Document Warning: A Truckload of Stupid • Harvard Crimson • 15th Dec 2008

"As atheists, Maher and Dawkins commit the same sins they mock and condemn"

Document Mac Geek Mike Lee is a committed atheist living a deeply spiritual life • SF Gate • 15th Dec 2008

One big thing I've learned over the past four years of writing this column is that a person's spirituality will often surprise you.

Document Faith Equals Fertility • MoreIntelligentLife.com • 15th Dec 2008

Religious people have more babies than non-believers--and not just for the obvious reasons. Anthony Gottlieb looks into a philosophical puzzle ...

Document Darwin's Living Legacy--Evolutionary Theory 150 Years Later • Scientific American • 15th Dec 2008

A Victorian amateur undertook a lifetime pursuit of slow, meticulous observation and thought about the natural world, producing a theory 150 years ago that still drives the contemporary scientific agenda

Document Orangutan's Spontaneous Whistling Opens New Chapter In Study Of Evolution Of Speech • Science Daily • 14th Dec 2008

Throughout history, human beings have used the whistle for everything from hailing a cab to carrying a tune.

Document Religion in [Australian] schools to go God-free • The Age • 14th Dec 2008

VICTORIAN state primary school students will soon have an alternative — religious education lessons taught by people who do not believe in God and say there is "no evidence of any supernatural power".

Document Vatican tightens in vitro opposition • HealthZone.ca • 12th Dec 2008

A Vatican bioethics document released today condemns artificial fertilisation and other techniques used by many couples and also says that human cloning, "designer babies" and embryonic stem-cell research are immoral.

Document Harun Yahya's Dark Arts • SEED Magazine • 12th Dec 2008

One-on-one with the Turkish creationist who uses bad science and bizarre art to spread his vision of a troubled world.

Document Keanu Barada Nikto • Pasadena Weekly • 12th Dec 2008

Caltech and "The Day the Earth Stood Still" star Keanu Reeves team up to explore how science can save the world

Document Key Event That Breaks Continents Apart Discovered • Science Daily • 11th Dec 2008

Researchers have captured for the first time a geological event considered key in shaping the Earth's landscape.

Document How to stop creationism gaining a hold in Islam • New Scientist • 11th Dec 2008

Salman Hameed teaches astronomy and religious studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He has lectured in Pakistan on reconciling evolution with Islam.

Document Hubble Finds Carbon Dioxide on an Extrasolar Planet • Hubble Site • 10th Dec 2008

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This is an important step along the trail of finding the chemical biotracers of extraterrestrial life as we know it.

Document On Human Rights Day, the Center for Inquiry Works to Uphold the Universality of Rights. • CFI • 10th Dec 2008

Today we mark the sixtieth anniversary of the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and above all its affirmation of the freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and expression.

Document Teachers 'beat and abuse' Muslim children in British Koran classes • Richard Kerbaj, Times Online • 9th Dec 2008

Muslim children are being beaten and abused regularly by teachers at some British madrassas - Islamic evening classes - an investigation by The Times has found.

Document Muslim pilgrims stone devil amid tight control • Inal Ersan, Reuters • 8th Dec 2008

More than two million Muslim pilgrims stoned walls symbolizing the devil in a narrow valley outside Mecca in Saudi Arabia Monday at the most dangerous stage of the haj pilgrimage.

Document SUVs at altar, Detroit church prays for a bailout • Kevin Krolicki and Soyoung Kim, Reuters • 7th Dec 2008

With sport-utility vehicles at the altar and auto workers in the pews, one of Detroit's largest churches on Sunday offered up prayers for Congress to bail out the struggling auto industry.

Document EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson On Religion And Science: 'It's Not A Clean-Cut Division' • The Wonk Room • 8th Dec 2008

An extended profile of Johnson published Sunday by the Philadelphia Inquirer reveals that the evangelical Johnson is unwilling — or unable — to separate religion from science.

Document H. M., an Unforgettable Amnesiac, Dies at 82 • NY Times • 8th Dec 2008

He knew his name. That much he could remember.

Document Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People • Ricky Gervais • 8th Dec 2008

It's the Christmas show for firm atheists - Dominic Cavendish meets the comics doing gags for the godless

Document Religious 'shun nanotechnology' • BBC • 8th Dec 2008

Attitudes to nanotechnology may be determined by religious and cultural beliefs, suggest researchers writing in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

Document If you want to know why our public schools are screwed up, here's one reason • PZ Myers, Pharyngula • 7th Dec 2008

Cynthia Dunbar has written a book. It's typical wingnut nonsense: it "refers to public education as 'a subtly deceptive tool of perversion' and calls the establishment of public schools unconstitutional and 'tyrannical.'"

Document Brain quirk makes eyewitnesses less reliable • New Scientist • 7th Dec 2008

Eyewitness accounts of crimes could be more untrustworthy than we thought.

Document Britain is 'unfriendly' for religious people • Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, Telegraph • 7th Dec 2008

Britain has become an "unfriendly" place for religious people to live, according to the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales.

Document Inner Workings Of The Immune System Filmed • Science Daily • 6th Dec 2008

Forget what's number one at the box office this week. The most exciting new film features the intricate workings of the body, filmed by scientists using ground-breaking technology.

Document What's Old Is New: 12 Living Fossils • WIRED Science • 6th Dec 2008

To navigate the currents of ecological fate, most creatures adapt — but a few have stuck to their evolutionary guns.

Document Hunting new Earths and the edge of the universe • New Scientist • 5th Dec 2008

LAST month, we got our best ever view of planets orbiting nearby stars.

Document The Axis of Evo • Jeffrey Lott, Swarthmore College Bulletin • 5th Dec 2008

“The notion that young kids cannot understand evolution is a myth perpetuated by those who don’t want kids to understand evolution,” says biologist Colin Purrington.

Document Win Ben Stein's Mind • Roger Ebert • 3rd Dec 2008

I've been accused of refusing to review Ben Stein's documentary "Expelled," a defense of Creationism, because of my belief in the theory of evolution. Here is my response.

Document Atheists want God out of Ky. homeland security • Roger Alford, Associated Press Writer • 2nd Dec 2008

A group of atheists filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to remove part of a state anti-terrorism law that requires Kentucky's Office of Homeland Security to acknowledge it can't keep the state safe without God's help.

Document A New Picture of the Early Earth • NY Times • 1st Dec 2008

The first 700 million years of Earth’s 4.5-billion-year existence are known as the Hadean period, after Hades, or, to shed the ancient Greek name, Hell.

Document Odontochelys, a transitional turtle • PZ Myers, Pharyngula • 1st Dec 2008

Now this is an interesting beast. It's a 220 million year old fossil from China of an animal that is distinctly turtle-like.

Document Potentially Universal Mechanism Of Aging Identified • Science Daily • 30th Nov 2008

Researchers have uncovered what may be a universal cause of aging, one that applies to both single cell organisms such as yeast and multicellular organisms, including mammals. This is the first time that such an evolutionarily conserved aging mechanism has been identified between such diverse organisms.

Document Review of 'The Four Horsemen' • Cineaste Magazine • 30th Nov 2008

The winter 2008 issue of Cineaste has a very nice review of The Four Horsemen DVD.

Document How to sell science to the Big Brother generation • New Scientist • 30th Nov 2008

Next week, University of Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy takes over from Richard Dawkins as Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. Is he bothered by comparisons with his fearsome predecessor? And what will his message be?

Document Terrorism That's Personal • Nicholas D. Kristof, NY Times • 30th Nov 2008

Alongside the brutal public terrorism that fills the television screens, there is an equally cruel form of terrorism that gets almost no attention and thrives as a result: flinging acid on a woman’s face to leave her hideously deformed.

Document 'Atheist bus' more like a bandwagon on highway to hell • Independent.ie • 30th Nov 2008

I am convinced that this injection of atheism into the culture is directly responsible for the increase in drug-abuse, in crime and, most specifically, in the five-fold increase in suicide that we have seen in these islands over the last 25 years.

Document The Religion of Peace Strikes Again • Alan Caruba, Canada Free Press • 30th Nov 2008

The attacks in Mumbai, India are the latest in the 1,400 year history of Islam and yet people continue to express surprise that the alleged religion of peace could harbor so many cold-blooded killers of innocent people.

Document Children of God? • AC Grayling • 29th Nov 2008

There's no real evidence to suggest that religion is hardwired – it's just wishful thinking on the part of religious academics

Document Vatican thanks Muslims for returning God to Europe • Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor, Reuters • 28th Nov 2008

A senior Vatican cardinal has thanked Muslims for bringing God back into the public sphere in Europe and said believers of different faiths had no option but to engage in interreligious dialogue.

Document Anti-terror law requires God be acknowledged • John Cheves, Lexington Herald-Leader • 28th Nov 2008

Under state law, God is Kentucky's first line of defense against terrorism.

Document Atheist Foundation of Australia Bus Slogan Rejected! • AHA • 26th Nov 2008

‘APN Outdoors’ the company responsible for Public Metropolitan Transport Advertising says no to Atheism.

Document £35,000 of taxpayers' cash given to 'atheist bus' group • Telegraph • 26th Nov 2008

An atheist group planning to put adverts on London buses declaring that "there's probably no God" has been given £35,000 in taxpayers' money.

Document We can't hide in our labs and leave the talking to Dawkins • Jim Al-Khalili • 24th Nov 2008

While people still cling to beliefs from the dark ages, more scientists must publicly defend rational, secular society

Document Regenerating a Mammoth for $10 Million • Nicholas Wade, NY Times • 24th Nov 2008

Scientists are talking for the first time about the old idea of resurrecting extinct species as if this staple of science fiction is a realistic possibility, saying that a living mammoth could perhaps be regenerated for as little as $10 million.

Document Triple Helix: Designing a New Molecule of Life • Scientific American • 24th Nov 2008

Scientists dream of synthesizing life that is utterly alien to this world—both to better understand the minimum components required for life (as part of the quest to uncover the essence of life and how life originated on earth) and, frankly, to see if they can do it.

Document Letter to the European Parliament on Turkey's banning of RichardDawkins.net • Sophie in 't Veld MEP • 24th Nov 2008

I am writing to express my concern at reports of a Turkish court compromising freedom of expression in the context of Turkey’s application to join the EU.

Document Just a little jab, won't hurt • David Horton, Huffington Post • 23rd Nov 2008

I see Ian Fraser, who developed the vaccine against cervical cancer, is now working on one for a form of skin cancer.