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August 28, 2009
Volume 5, Issue 35
Published by the Center For Atheism (CFA)
Editor: David Birnkrant
The Focus provides links to articles collected from major newspapers and magazines, and is emailed weekly.
This Week in Atheism is a cable show that discusses
the articles featured below, every Wednesday at 6:30 PM (EST),
Manhattan Cable station 57.
Live streaming is available at: http://www.mnn.org.
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FEATURED ARTICLES
Judge: Ky. can't legislate dependence on God
The Associated Press
Ten
Kentucky residents and a national atheist group sued to have the
reference stricken. "It is breathtakingly unconstitutional," said Edwin
Kagin, ...
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hRgm3AYAMJCUuvKyH-lOyDWNfImQD9AAVPA80
Ireland's new blasphemy law labeled return to Middle Ages
Calgary Herald
"It
is a wretched, backward, uncivilized regression to the Middle Ages,"
said prominent atheist author Richard Dawkins in a statement last
month, ...
http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/Ireland+blasphemy+labeled+return+Middle+Ages/1922182/story.html
ATHEISM
Outrage over Turkish TV's bid to make atheists 'experiment with God'
SINDH TODAY
London, August 23 (ANI): Muslim leaders are ranting over the latest series of bizarre
programmes on Turkish TV that will try to convert atheists with the ...
http://www.sindhtoday.net/news/1/44426.htm
State pre-empts any ado over Capitol holiday displays
Seattle Times
Not
allowed: a Nativity scene, an atheist sign, a Festivus pole and other
displays sponsored by private organizations. By Janet I. Tu Allowed
inside the ...
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009729205_webcapitol25m.html
Wash. bans Capitol holiday displays, tree to stay
Seattle Times
The
furor focused on an atheist placard, which said that religion was "myth
and superstition." It was stolen and recovered, and hundreds came to a
protest ...
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009728953_apwacapitolholidaydisplays.html
Bus driver, suspended over atheist ad incident, is back at work today
DesMoinesRegister.com
By CYNTHIA REYNAUD • creynaud@dmreg.com • August 24, 2009 A bus driver who was suspended
last week for refusing to drive a bus with an atheist group's ...
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090824/NEWS/90824017/Bus-driver--suspended-over-atheist-ad-incident--is-back-at-work-today
BOOKS, FILM, THEATRE, TV, YOU TUBE
Professor Richard Dawkins wants to convert Islamic world to evolution
Times Online
None
of Professor Dawkins' books, on evolution as well as religion, has ever
been translated into Arabic, and his work has been heavily censored in
Turkey. ...
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article6805889.ece
Richard Dawkins, Brian Eno and the art of evolution
Times Online
It
features Dawkins in conversation with Brian Eno, the musician and
artist once of Roxy Music, who is another perceptive thinker about
evolution and ...
http://timesonline.typepad.com/science/2009/08/richard-dawkins-brian-eno-and-the-art-of-evolution.html
Baptist Pastor Prays For
President Obama To Die & Go To Hell
Baptist
Pastor Steven L. Anderson Of Faithful Word Baptist Church Tempe, AZ -
Prays Each Night For President Obama To Die & Go To Hell ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq9G44tomKY
Sam Harris on Real Time with Bill Maher
Sam Harris is Interviewed by Bill Maher on Real Time with Bill Maher which airs on HBO...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVES4a9Zq4M
Freud's Last Session -- Theater Review
Hollywood Reporter
...
the pioneer of psychoanalysis debates the existence of God with the
passionate advocate of Christianity, who has had a conversion from
strident atheism. ...
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/freud-s-last-session-theater-review-1004007308.story
EVOLUTION, CREATIONISM, I.D.
US Chamber of Commerce Calls for Trial of Climate Science
Environment News Service
It would be "the Scopes monkey trial of the 21st century," he said, "evolution
versus creationism." In 1925, Tennessee high school teacher John Scopes ...
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2009/2009-08-26-091.asp
More 'Evidence' of Intelligent Design Shot Down by Science
Wired Blogs
By
Brandon Keim Intricate cellular components are often cited as evidence
of intelligent design. They couldn't have evolved, ID proponents say,
because they ...
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/reduciblecomplexity/
Mouse set to be 'evolution icon'
BBC News
"Despite
the fact that the peppered has been an icon of 'evolution in action',
we do yet know the genetic changes involved," says Prof Hoekstra. ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8225000/8225219.stm
SCIENCE
New Way To Reproduce A Black Hole?
ScienceDaily
(Aug. 22, 2009) — Despite their popularity in the science fiction
genre, there is much to be learned about black holes, the mysterious
regions in space once thought to be absent of light. In a paper
published in the August 20 issue of Physical Review Letters, Dartmouth
researchers propose a new way of creating a reproduction black hole...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090821163513.htm
Key Feature Of Immune System Survived In Humans, Other Primates For 60 Million Years
ScienceDaily
(Aug. 22, 2009) — A new study has concluded that one key part of the
immune system, the ability of vitamin D to regulate anti-bactericidal
proteins, is so important that is has been conserved through almost 60
million years of evolution and is shared only by primates, including
humans – but no other known animal species...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090818182053.htm
Artificial
Life One Step Closer: Scientists Clone And Engineer Bacterial Genomes
In Yeast And Transplant Genomes Back Into Bacterial Cells
ScienceDaily
(Aug. 22, 2009) — Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI),
a not-for-profit genomic research organization, have just published
results describing new methods in which the entire bacterial genome
from Mycoplasma mycoides was cloned in a yeast cell by adding yeast
centromeric plasmid sequence to the bacterial chromosome...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090821205730.htm
Vanquishing Infinity: Old Methods Lead To New Approach To Finding Quantum Theory Of Gravity
ScienceDaily
(Aug. 21, 2009) — Quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of general
relativity are both extremely accurate theories of how the universe
works, but all attempts to combine the two into a unified theory have
ended in failure...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090817143556.htm
Living Longer And Happier
ScienceDaily
(Aug. 21, 2009) — A new study from the University of Missouri may shed
light on how to increase the level and quality of activity in the
elderly. In the study, published in this week's edition of Public
Library of Science – One, MU researchers found that gene therapy with a
proven "longevity" gene energized mice during exercise, and might be
applicable to humans in the future...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090819164321.htm
Holes Poked In Hubbard Model, Could Help Solve Enigma Of High-Temperature Superconductors
ScienceDaily
(Aug. 21, 2009) — New UBC research has literally and figuratively poked
holes in single-band Hubbard physics -- a model that has been used to
predict and calculate the behavior of high-temperature superconductors
for 20 years...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090819164329.htm
Nanophysics: Serving Up Buckyballs On A Silver Platter
ScienceDaily
(Aug. 21, 2009) — Scientists at Penn State University, in collaboration
with institutes in the US, Finland, Germany and the UK, have figured
out the long-sought structure of a layer of C60 – carbon buckyballs –
on a silver surface...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090727102133.htm
Dark Energy From The Ground Up: Make Way For BigBOSS
ScienceDaily
(Aug. 20, 2009) — Several ways have been proposed to examine dark
energy, in hopes of finding out just what it is. One of them,
“supernovae” for short, certainly works: it’s how dark energy was
discovered in the first place. Other independent techniques, such as
weak gravitational lensing and baryon acoustic oscillation, also
promise great power but are as yet unproven...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090807091028.htm
Researchers Boost Production Of Biofuel That Could Replace Gasoline
ScienceDaily
(Aug. 20, 2009) — Engineers at Ohio State University have found a way
to double the production of the biofuel butanol, which might someday
replace gasoline in automobiles...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090819110012.htm
SEPARATION CHURCH / STATE
Watchdog group challenges North Richland Hills council's prayers
Fort Worth Star Telegram
The
Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national organization dedicated
to the separation of church and state. A representative for the group
said it ...
http://www.star-telegram.com/northeast/story/1552688.html
Spencer drops new Bible class
DesMoinesRegister.com
Most
public educators have trampled those rights out of fear they'll be sued
for violating the separation of church and state doctrine, Spencer
school ...
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090827/NEWS02/908270363/1004
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