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FEATURED ARTICLES Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions, and Domestic Partnerships NY Times - Monday, February 2, 2009 The 2008 election brought a new twist in the saga of same-sex marriage with the passage of measures banning marriage for gay couples in Florida, Arizona and in California, where the right had been granted less than six months earlier... http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/same_sex_marriage/index.html Obama creates faith-based office with wide mission The Associated Press Focused primarily on faith-based initiatives, the Bush office sparked constitutional questions about whether the separation of church and state would be ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090205/ap_on_go_pr_wh/rel_obama_faith_based ============================= ATHEISM Do Obama's nods to non-believers signal turning tide for US atheists? 570 News - Kitchener,Ontario,Canada Three years after a high-profile University of Minnesota study found that atheists outranked Muslims and new immigrants as the most distrusted and despised ... http://www.570news.com/news/international/article.jsp?content=w0202123A Advertisements promoting atheism could appear on TransLink buses Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada METRO VANCOUVER -- The jury is out on whether advertisements promoting atheism could appear on TransLink buses and facilities. The BC Humanist Association ... http://www.vancouversun.com/Entertainment/Advertisements+promoting+atheism+could+appear+TransLink+buses/1249400/story.html The free thinker: young Halifax activist takes on religion, censorship Xtra.ca - Toronto,Ontario,Canada Derek Rodgers is a member of the Dal Atheist Community and an outspoken advocate for freedom of speech. As soon as Derek Rodgers heard her voice, ... http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/The_free_thinker_young_Halifax_activist_takes_on_religion_censorship-6234.aspx Atheists back nurse's suspension BBC News - UK An atheist group has backed a decision by a healthcare trust to suspend a nurse who said she would pray for an elderly patient. Caroline Petrie, a Christian ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/7866934.stm TransLink faces a devil of a question Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada He noted that an ad was posted on a community bulletin board at the SeaBus station in Vancouver related to the atheist campaign, but that it has since been ... http://www2.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=e944ef6c-b361-4f46-bd00-a8596300218f Possibly godless busses Ontarian - Guelph,ON,Canada "The whole point of the campaign is to bring atheism out of the shadows," Trottier said. He insists that this is an effort to begin a widespread dialogue ... http://theontarion.ca/archivearticle.php?date_pub=2009-02-05&id_pag=2210 Atheists welcome in Obama's big church AFP "I doubt that any newly elected president has ever sat down with lobbyists for the American atheist movement to plot legislative strategy," the group's ... http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20090206/tls-us-politics-obama-religion-aeafa1b.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ BOOKS, FILM, THEATRE, TV, YOU TUBE 'Banquet at DelMonico's' Evolution arguments raged in Darwin's ... Providence Journal - Providence,RI,USA "The evolution of life and of the physical world are now supplemented," said Yale paleontologist OC Marsh, "by the evolution of philosophy, of history, ... http://www.projo.com/books/content/BOOK-DELMONICOS_02-01-09_TVD07NC_v13.1451517.html Atheist Billboard Turning Heads In South Carolina Lowcountry WJBF-TV - Augusta,GA,USA It'sa billboard that some say is promoting atheism, but the group who put it there says, that's not necessarily the case. Count on Josh Cascio with that ... http://www.wjbf.com/jbf/news/state_regional/south_carolina/article/atheist_billboard_turning_heads_in_south_carolina_lowcountry/10562/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EVOLUTION, CREATIONISM, I.D. Half of Britons reject evolution, survey finds guardian.co.uk - UK Half of British adults do not believe in evolution, with at least 22% preferring the theories of creationism or intelligent design to explain how the world ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/01/evolution-darwin-survey-creationism Scientists use Darwin theory to develop new technologies Houston Chronicle - United States 26, Noon Still a flash point among fundamentalist Christians, the theory of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin 150 years ago has become an indispensable ... http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6240745.html Poll reveals public doubts over Charles Darwin's theory of evolution Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Religious Affairs Correspondent More than half of the public believe that the theory of evolution cannot explain the full ... http://wwwtelegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/4410927/Poll-reveals-public-doubts-over-Charles-Darwins-theory-of-evolution.html Darwin 200 years later: Evolution by selection of quotations Scientific American - USA "In a single stroke, the idea of evolution by natural selection unifies the realm of life, meaning and purpose with the realm of space and time, ... http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=darwin-200-years-later-evolution-by-2009-02-02 Hailing the evolutionary revolutionary Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia Cane toads marching across the top end of Australia are a striking example of evolution in action. In the seven decades since these poisonous pests were ... http://www.smh.com.au/news/specials/science/hailing-the-evolutionary-revolutionary/2009/02/04/1233423310996.html Ben Stein cancels Vermont speech in evolution row The Associated Press That view holds that life is too complex to have developed through evolution alone, implying that a higher power must have had a hand in creation. ... http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iDhyGeMxee5BWjjAooBDVR6JDqPgD964E9M81 God or Ape, Louisiana Teachers Get New Handbook to Teach Both DigitalJournal.com - Toronto,Ontario,Canada Those rules are in a handbook telling teachers how they can teach Intelligent Design. The law was passed allowing it last year, and this year are ... http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/266544 --------------------------------------------------------------- SCIENCE Call To Action: Running Out Of Options To Fight Ever-changing 'Super Bugs ScienceDaily (Jan. 31, 2009) — People are dying from "super bugs" because our antibiotic arsenal has run dry, leaving the world without sufficient weapons to fight ever-changing bacteria, warn infectious disease researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128183925.htm Did I See What I Think I Saw? ScienceDaily (Jan. 30, 2009) — Eyewitness testimony is a crucial part of many criminal trials even though research increasingly suggests that it may not be as accurate as we (and many lawyers) would like it to be... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128160835.htm Capture Of Nanomagnetic 'Fingerprints' A Boost For Next-generation Information Storage Media ScienceDaily (Jan. 30, 2009) — In the race to develop the next generation of storage and recording media, a major hurdle has been the difficulty of studying the tiny magnetic structures that will serve as their building blocks... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090129102338.htm Black Hole Outflows From Centaurus A ScienceDaily (Jan. 30, 2009) — Astronomers have a new insight into the active galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128), as the jets and lobes emanating from the central black hole have been imaged at submillimetre wavelengths for the first time... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128074617.htm What Happens When We Sleep ScienceDaily (Jan. 30, 2009) — Lack of sleep is a common complaint but for many, falling asleep involuntarily during the day poses a very real and dangerous problem. A new study from the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) at McGill University demonstrates interestingly... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128160839.htm Women Have More Nightmares Than Men, Study Shows ScienceDaily (Jan. 30, 2009) — A researcher from the University of the West of England was inspired by her own nightmares and a chance encounter at a lecture to examine more closely the stuff that dreams are made of. Her PhD study has focused on an astounding discovery that women suffer more nightmares then men... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128104535.htm Billion-year Revision Of Plant Evolution Timeline May Stem From Discovery Of Lignin In Seaweed ScienceDaily (Jan. 29, 2009) — Land plants' ability to sprout upward through the air, unsupported except by their own woody tissues, has long been considered one of the characteristics separating them from aquatic plants, which rely on water to support them... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127090723.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SEPARATION CHURCH / STATE Religion, Politics Seldom Far Apart In Arkansas The Morning News - Springdale,AR,USA Still, she acknowledged that church and state have a history of mingling in Arkansas. In fact, the Arkansas Constitution states, "No person who denies the ... http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2009/01/31/legislature/020109lrreligioninpolitics.txt Debate rages over Hebrew charter school in NYC The Associated Press The ACLU contends that the Minnesota school violates the separation of church and state by permitting prayer sessions during school hours and by giving ... http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iSUYbGpPUoZb-asfWt5H_6CI74lAD96407K00 Appeals court will hear challenge today to Texas schools' 'moment ... Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA David Wallace Croft of Carrollton, an atheist, sued the state, arguing that the moment of silence violates a constitutionally mandated separation of church ... http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/020309dnmetschoolmoment.1640c66a.html State high court to hear Prop. 8 case March 5 San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA 8 also argue that it violates the constitutional separation of powers by stripping the judiciary of its ability to protect a minority group. ... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/03/BAMB15MMOH.DTL Conservative Groups Declare Obama's Stimulus Bill a War on Prayer FOXNews - USA Civil liberty groups like the Americans United for Separation of Church and State vehemently defend the stimulus bill's provision, arguing that it in no way ... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/04/conservative-groups-declare-obamas-stimulus-war-prayer/ CHURCH-STATE SEPARATION ADVOCATE SAYS OBAMA DELAYING DECISION ON ... Tapped - Washington,DC,USA Welton Gaddy, president of the church-state separation and religious liberty advocacy group The Interfaith Alliance. Gaddy tells me that Joshua DuBois, ... http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=02&year=2009&base_name=churchstate_separation_advocat Obama Appoints WFU Church-State Specialist to Faith-Based Post Media General Washington Bureau - Washington,DC,USA Critics of the office under Bush said it blurred the legal separation of church and state by favoring religious groups over secular groups in awarding ... http://www.mgwashington.com/index.php/news/article/obama-appoints-wfu-church-state-specialist-to-faith-based-post/2509/ Controversy surrounds Obama's faith office CNN International - USA In the other corner are separation-of-church-and-state advocates and human-rights organizations that say the government must constitutionally compel these ... http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/05/obama.faith.based/indexhtml?eref=ib_topstories Church-State Separationists Question Obama's Faith-Based Office CNSNews.com - Alexandria,VA,USA Conservatives are leery as to what type of faith-based funding will occur, while the liberal Americans United for Separation of Church and State is upset ... http://wwwcnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=43107 Americans United - Obama's 'faith-based' program lacks ... Examiner.com - USA Americans United for Separation of Church and State today expressed disappointment that President Barack Obama's "faith-based" initiative is being rolled ... http://www.examiner.com/x-2044-Atheism-Examiner~y2009m2d6-Americans-United--Obamas-faithbased-program-lacks-Constitutional-safeguards ------------------------------------------------------------- MISCELLANEOUS JENNIFER ABEL: Belligerent design left her in the snow Bristol Press - CT, United States By Jennifer Abel The theory of Belligerent Design states that the universe was created by an intelligent being with a chip on his shoulder, who takes his ... http://www.bristolpress.com/articles/2009/01/31/opinion/doc4984f926d3440467798926.txt British Christians launch pro-God ads after atheist blitz AFP LONDON (AFP) — A British Christian group is to run a pro-God poster campaign on the side of London buses, to counter a recent atheist advertising blitz ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090205/lf_afp/lifestylebritainreligiontransport_20090205201050 | ||
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