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FEATURED ARTICLES Protest Over a Rule to Protect Health Providers New York Times - by Robert Pear WASHINGTON — A last-minute Bush administration plan to grant sweeping new protections to health care providers who oppose abortion and other procedures on religious or moral grounds... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/washington/18abort.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
Most Texas profs back unlimited teaching of evolution Houston Chronicle - United States By GARY SCHARRER AUSTIN â€" The verdict from Texas scientists is nearly unanimous: 98 percent favor the unadulterated teaching of evolution in public school ... http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/6118016.html
State high court to take up Prop. 8 challenge Sacramento Bee - CA, USA Whether it violates the separation of powers doctrine under the state constitution. • If Proposition 8 is not unconstitutional, what its effect is, if any, ... http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/1413084.html
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(Some publications may require that you sign up for membership to view their article.) ATHEISM Religion alters visual perception New Scientist (subscription) - UK To see if religious differences might skew perception, Hommel's team tested 40 Dutch atheist and Calvinist university students, who, religion aside, ... http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16046-religion-alters-visual-perception.html
Atheist holiday ad bound to turn heads News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USA "Our reason for doing it during the holidays is there are an awful lot of agnostics, atheists and other types of non-theists who feel a little alone during ... http://www.news-leader.com/article/20081115/LIFE07/811150324
Faith and the Uniform The Washington Independent - Washington,DC,USA The action follows on the heels of a much-publicized legal case involving atheism and the military. Jeremy Hall, 23, a US Army specialist, .. http://washingtonindependent.com/18788/faith-and-the-uniform
Atheists Reach Out -- Just Don't Call It Proselytizing Wall Street Journal - USA The Freedom From Religion Foundation, which represents atheists and agnostics, kicked off an ad campaign with this billboard in Madison, Wis. ... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122696699813835335.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Lip Service Charleston City Paper - Charleston,SC,USA "My problem with Ketner," wrote South Carolina's leading atheist, "was a 30-second TV ad in which she proclaimed her love of God three times. ... http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A55242
Atheist Billboards Now Up In Denver TheDenverChannel.com - Denver,CO,USA Joel Guttormson, the president of the Metro State Atheists, said the billboard should be viewed as nothing more than a message to non-believers. ... http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18003483/detail.html
There is no God ... on Billboards Fort Collins Now - Fort Collins,CO,USA A coalition of atheist, humanist and free-thinking groups called Colorado CoRe — Coalition of Reason — bought about a dozen billboards with an image of the ...
Does Religion Make You Nice? Does atheism make you mean? Virtue Online - West Chester,PA,USA ... worthy of consideration aren't those like North Korea and China, where religion is savagely repressed, but those in which people freely choose atheism. ... http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=9399
Billboard promoting atheism will be removed Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USA By DAVID OLSON An Ontario billboard company is removing a controversial Rancho Cucamonga billboard promoting atheism after receiving complaints, ... http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_atheist21.44263f8.html
BOOKS, FILM, THEATRE, TV, YOUTUBE Cats, Dogs, and Creationism: On Intelligent Design and the Left Monthly Review - Herndon,VA,USA Why devote a whole book to that argument, as John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York do in their recent Critique of Intelligent Design (Monthly ... http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/bricmont141108.html
EVOLUTION, CREATIONISM, I.D. Darwin art strikes wrong note guardian.co.uk - UK 'Mockingbirds and finches were important in getting Darwin thinking about evolution, but hummingbirds played no role at all. Presumably the artist just ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/nov/16/darwinbicentenary-currencies
Texas biology professors see little controversial about evolution ... Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA By MARK AGEE Most college biology professors in Texas see little controversial about evolution, according to a survey commissioned by an advocacy group ... http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1044802.html
95% of professors back teaching only evolution in Texas schools Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA About 95 percent of those responding to the study by the progressive group Texas Freedom Network said schools should teach "just evolution" in covering the ... http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/111808dntexevolution.3c0a5be.html
State education panel hears evolution debate Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA By TERRENCE STUTZ / The Dallas Morning News AUSTIN – Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution grabbed center stage Wednesday as State Board of Education ... http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/112008dntexscience.3d3243d.html
Draft of revised Texas science standards further undermines .. Pegasus News - Dallas,TX,USA "All of a sudden, a new draft appears with loaded buzz words that evolution deniers have used repeatedly to launch phony attacks on evolution," Miller said. ... http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2008/nov/19/draft-revised-texas-science-standards-further-unde/
Evolution exhibit honoring F. Clark Howell debuts in VLSB Berkeleyan Online - Berkeley,CA,USA The exhibit, jointly sponsored by the UC Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) and the Human Evolution Research Center, is the handiwork of integrative-biology ... http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/11/20_evolution.shtml
SCIENCE UI researchers using genetic relationships to track evolution Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette - Champaign,IL,USA They found that changes in ribosome structures are "molecular fossils" that track evolution. UI Professor Zaida Luthey-Schulten and graduate student Elijah ...
Chemists: Proteins may guide evolution Princeton University The Daily Princetonian - NJ, United States By Aaron Hosios University researchers have discovered a molecular mechanism that may play a determining role in an organism's evolution, according to a ... http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2008/11/18/22145/
Two From One: Evolution Of Genders From Hermaphroditic Ancestors ... Science Daily (press release) - USA 20 edition of the journal Heredity could finally provide evidence of the first stages of the evolution of separate sexes, a theory that holds that males and ... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081120171328.htm
Humanity may hold key for next Earth evolution Harvard University Gazette - Cambridge,MA,USA By Alvin Powell Human degradation of the environment has the potential to stall an ongoing process of planetary evolution, and even rewind the evolutionary ... http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/11.20/11-earth.html
SEPARATION CHURCH / STATE 500 protest in Providence over Calif. ban of gay marriage Providence Journal - Providence,RI,USA ... said that that would be appropriate "especially in Rhode Island, a state that was founded on the idea of equality, of separation of church and state. ... http://www.projo.com/news/content/PROP_8_PROTEST_11-16-08_UQC9UNT_v44.34b8bb8.html
Brooklyn Park megachurch smites IRS in info showdown Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA By MARY LYNN SMITH, Star Tribune It seems that when it comes to money, churches are all for separation of church and state. But, when it comes to power, ...
Still Roiled By Prop 8 Gay City News - USA ... the gay marriage issue is," said Bill Dobbs, a veteran gay and peace activist who favors civil unions for all and the separation of church and state. ... http://www.gaycitynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20202786&BRD=2729&PAG=461&dept_id=568864&rfi=6
ACLU wants to ensure Freedom Fest not overtly Christian Tampabay.com - St. Petersburg,FL,USA County tourism officials believe they have found a way to meet the separation of church and state provisions in the US and Florida constitutions. ... http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/article912837.ece
MISCELLANEOUS Prop 8 attacks gay rights The Collegian online - Tulsa,OK,USA As Thomas Jefferson once said, the First Amendment creates "a wall of separation between church and State." Christian and non-Christian dogmas alike have no ... http://www.utulsa.edu/collegian/article.asp?article=3953
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