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FEATURED ARTICLES Liberalism, atheism, male sexual exclusivity linked to IQ (CNN) -- Political, religious and sexual behaviors may be reflections of intelligence, a new study finds... http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/26/liberals.atheists.sex.intelligence/index.html?hpt=C2 ATHEISM Atheists, agnostics unite in disbelief The Auburn Plainsman by Bree Bowen / WRITER Auburn Atheists and Agnostics is a new student led social group for the non-religious community. Poojit Ravikumar, sophomore in ... http://www.theplainsman.com/view/full_story/6389583/article-Atheists--agnostics-unite-in-disbelief?instance=home_news_lead_story A sorrowful loss ScienceBlogs (blog) Kagin was a heroine and activist in the Atheist movement. Along with her husband, attorney Edwin Kagin, she co-founded Camp Quest, a summer camp for the ... http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/02/a_sorrowful_loss.php 2 studies find more shunning organized religion | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02 ... Philadelphia Inquirer It found that 25 percent of those under 30 described their religious identity as "atheist," "agnostic," or "nothing in particular. ... http://www.philly.com/philly/living/84677992.html Atheist group sues to end tax break for ministers Mansfield News Journal By ERIK SHILLING • News Journal • February 19, 2010 MANSFIELD -- A national atheist group is asking religious leaders to take Jesus's advice and render unto ... http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20100219/NEWS01/2190308 Non-Theists attend religious services to benefit food bank Purdue Exponent The idea for the fundraiser, called “Send an Atheist to Church,” was based off Hemant Mehta, an atheist who sold himself on eBay to attend any church ... http://www.purdueexponent.org/index.php?module=article&story_id=20060 Atheist Community of Jonesboro looks to form student chapter ASU Herald Hostilities are rising on the ASU campus as the Atheist Community of Jonesboro attempts to establish a student led organization on campus since their ... http://media.www.asuherald.com/media/storage/paper898/news/2010/02/22/News/Atheist.Community.Of.Jonesboro.Looks.To.Form.Student.Chapter-3877053.shtml Atheist lobby group disappointed bus company rejects ads Radio New Zealand A group promoting atheism that raised thousands of dollars to put advertisements on buses says NZ Bus is now refusing to allow them on their vehicles. ... http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2010/02/23/1247f2a8daf6 Atheists consider legal action over bus ads New Zealand Herald By Matthew Backhouse Organisers of a controversial campaign to get pro-atheism ads on buses say they may go to the Human Rights Review Tribunal after ... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10628222 Kiwi buses reject atheist ad campaign NEWS.com.au AN atheist group is considering taking legal action after ads encouraging New Zealanders to consider their religious beliefs were rejected by the national ... http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/kiwi-buses-reject-atheist-ad-campaign/story-e6frfku0-1225834327956 Liberals and Atheists Smarter? Intelligent People Have Values Novel in Human ... Science Daily (press release) Specifically, liberalism and atheism, and for men (but not women), preference for sexual exclusivity correlate with higher intelligence, a new study finds. ... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100224132655.htm BOOKS, FILM, THEATRE, TV, YOU TUBE Blues virtuoso goes back to our origins Brisbane Times "Before I got into music I was going to be an anthropologist, and so it was sort of a natural interest for me, the whole debate on intelligent design," ... http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/entertainment/blues-virtuoso-goes-back-to-our-origins-20100223-owxb.html The Human Genome New University Online Intelligent design, as defined by Avise, is “a religious movement whose proponents routinely claim that biological features were consciously engineered, ... http://www.newuniversity.org/2010/02/news/the-human-genome/ Morality and Atheism in Pakistan Science & Religion Today (blog) Kudos: It is not often that we see an article (more accurately, an op-ed piece by a regular columnist) in a Pakistani newspaper mentioning atheism in a ... http://www.scienceandreligiontoday.com/2010/02/22/morality-and-atheism-in-pakistan/ YouTube - Become An Atheist Today! "Become An Atheist Today!" Parody of late night, hard sell, commercials that push a variety of items -- byhttp://www.youtube.com/ LeeWood---Please subscribe ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miDGzEPnfIQ EVOLUTION, CREATIONISM, I.D. What Texas Thinks of Evolution Science & Religion Today (blog) According to a poll conducted by the University of Texas and The Texas Tribune, 30 percent of people in the state believe that humans and dinosaurs lived at ... http://www.scienceandreligiontoday.com/2010/02/19/what-texas-thinks-of-evolution/ Judge who ruled against intelligent design speaks at UVU Deseret News The United States District Court judge who presided over a landmark 2005 ruling stating that teaching intelligent design in public school is ... http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700010482/Judge-who-ruled-against-intelligent-design-speaks-at-UVU.html Great divide separates creationists, evolutionists The Decatur Daily ... ambiguities in the church “Book of Discipline,” and another opposes faith-based theories such as Creationism or Intelligent Design in science curricula. ... http://www.decaturdaily.com/detail/53891.html Report shows generation gap on gay rights, evolution, faith Ottawa Citizen "Young people are more accepting of homosexuality and evolution than are older people. They are also more comfortable with having a bigger government, ... http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/Report+shows+generation+rights+evolution+faith/2589797/story.html Polling evolution in Texas | NCSE NCSE provides information and advice as the premier institution dedicated to keeping evolution in the science classroom and creationism out. LEARN MORE >> ... http://ncse.com/news/2010/02/polling-evolution-texas-005330 Controversy over evolution in Israel National Center for Science Education The chief scientist in Israel's ministry of education, Gavriel Avital, "sparked a furor" by questioning the reliability of evolution and global warming, ... http://ncse.com/news/2010/02/controversy-over-evolution-israel-005334 Obesity? Big Feet? Blame Darwin Wall Street Journal By MELINDA BECK Evolution, the theory goes, guarantees survival to the fittest. But we can blame evolution for some of today's most pressing health problems ... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704454304575081613327728110.html Poll reveals Texans believe dinosaurs, humans coexisted UT The Daily Texan By Collin Eaton Government professor David Prindle submitted questions of religious affiliation and evolution theories to a survey of registered Texas ... http://www.dailytexanonline.com/state-local/poll-reveals-texans-believe-dinosaurs-humans-coexisted-1.2169184 SCIENCE Jurassic Space: Ancient Galaxies Come Together After Billions of Years ScienceDaily (Feb. 20, 2010) — Imagine finding a living dinosaur in your backyard. Astronomers have found the astronomical equivalent of prehistoric life in our intergalactic backyard: a group of small, ancient galaxies that has waited 10 billion years to come together. These "late bloomers" are on their way to building a large elliptical galaxy... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100216221301.htm Behold the Violent History of Saturn's White Whale Moon ScienceDaily (Feb. 20, 2010) — Like the battered white whale Moby Dick taunting Captain Ahab, Saturn's moon Prometheus surges toward the viewer in a new 3-D image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100219164200.htm Cryogenic Dark Matter Search: Experiment Hints at Interaction With Dark Matter Particles ScienceDaily (Feb. 20, 2010) — Even the biggest Star Trek fan would probably have trouble understanding the technical details of the research done by Queen's University Particle Astrophysics Professor Wolfgang Rau of Kingston, Canada... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100218150654.htm Learning from the Brain: Computer Scientists Develop New Generation of Neuro-Computer ScienceDaily (Feb. 19, 2010) — Intelligent machines that not only think for themselves but also actively learn are the vision of researchers of the Institute for Theoretical Science (IGI) at Graz University of Technology... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100202111752.htm Listening to Other Stars ScienceDaily (Feb. 19, 2010) — When scientists realised that observing and analysing oscillations in the Sun could provide information about its interior, it was only a matter of time before Helioseismology was put to work on other stars... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100215100611.htm Biologists Discover How Biological Clock Controls Cell Division in Bacteria ScienceDaily (Feb. 19, 2010) — A team of biologists has unraveled the biochemistry of how bacteria so precisely time cell division, a key element in understanding how all organisms from bacteria to humans use their biological clocks to control basic cellular functions... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100218125154.htm Happiness Is ... Looking Forward to Your Vacation ScienceDaily (Feb. 19, 2010) — It takes more than a vacation to make people happy. Indeed, vacationers tend to be happier than non-vacationers in the lead up to their break, but once they are back, there is very little difference between the two groups' levels of happiness... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100218125204.htm Youngest Extra-Solar Planet Discovered Around Solar-Type Star ScienceDaily (Feb. 19, 2010) — Astronomers have discovered the youngest extra-solar planet around a solar-type star, named BD+20 1790b... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100218092752.htm In Learning, the Brain Forgets Things on Purpose ScienceDaily (Feb. 19, 2010) — Scientists have known that newly acquired, short-term memories are often fleeting. But a new study in flies suggests that kind of forgetfulness doesn't just happen. Rather, an active process of erasing memories may in some ways be as important as the ability to lay down new memories, say researchers who report their findings in the February 19th issue of the journal Cell... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100218125149.htm NASA's Stardust Burns for Comet, Less Than a Year Away ScienceDaily (Feb. 19, 2010) — Just three days shy of one year before its planned flyby of comet Tempel 1, NASA's Stardust spacecraft has successfully performed a maneuver to adjust the time of its encounter by eight hours and 20 minutes. The delay maximizes the probability of the spacecraft capturing high-resolution images of the desired surface features of the 2.99-kilometer-wide (1.86 mile) potato-shaped mass of ice and dust... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100218151152.htm Nuclear Downsizing: Report Identifies Steps to Reduce US Arsenal, Prevent Spread of Atomic Bombs and Keep Stockpile Safe ScienceDaily (Feb. 19, 2010) — The American Physical Society (APS), the world's leading organization of physicists, has released a report identifying technical steps that will help the U.S. achieve its goals to downsize the nuclear arsenal, prevent the spread of atomic bombs and keep the stockpile safe and secure... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100218191738.htm Everyday Grass Could Provide Green Fuel ScienceDaily (Feb. 18, 2010) — A five-year research project has come up with a way of generating green energy from a humble everyday grass... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100216221301.htm SEPARATION CHURCH / STATE Bible classes could be on the way in KY public schools 14WFIE.com Proponents say teaching the Bible in schools is not necessarily violating the separation of church and state. "It'll draw some opposition," Boswell said. ... http://www.wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=12014963 Salvation Army Surrenders: Settlement In NY Case Bans Tax-Funded Preaching Americans United (blog) While conceptually such an arrangement would seem to satisfy the constitutional wall of separation between church and state, pragmatically, the Salvation ... http://blog.au.org/2010/02/19/salvation-army-surrenders-settlement-in-n-y-case-bans-tax-funded-preaching/ Safety minister scolds MP Montreal Gazette By BARTLEY KIVES, Winnipeg Free PressFebruary 20, 2010 A debate over the separation of church and state got cranked up a notch this week as Canada's public ... http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Safety+minister+scolds/2589055/story.html Minister, MP clash over Christian youth centre; Downtown Winnipeg; NDPer ... Kelowna.com WINNIPEG – A debate over the separation of church and state got cranked up a notch this week as Canada's Public Safety Minister suggested a Winnipeg MP ... http://www.kelowna.com/2010/02/22/minister-mp-clash-over-christian-youth-centre-downtown-winnipeg-ndper-opposes-ottawas-proposed-3-2m-contribution/ Schundler grilled on religious beliefs in job hearing | Philadelphia Inquirer ... Philadelphia Inquirer Scutari inquired about his opinion on the separation of church and state - Schundler said he supported it - and asked on several occasions whether he would ... http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/85022062.html DoH chief snubs Church on condoms issue Inquirer.net We are a secular state where there is separation of Church and State,” she pointed out. Cabral said that “while it is very important for us to find out what ... http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20100224-255029/DoH-chief-snubs-Church-on-condoms-issue Prayer Continues WMDT A lawsuit was brought forth against the Sussex County school district saying the prayer violated the separation of church and state. ... http://www.wmdt.com/news-archive.aspx?item=4903 MacMillan DynamicBooks Let Profs Edit Textbooks, Open Room for Abuse Switched (blog) So, what is to stop a rogue biology teacher from pulling evolution, and putting in "intelligent design?" General manager for the subsidiary, Clancy Marshall ... http://www.switched.com/2010/02/24/macmillan-dynamicbooks-let-profs-edit-textbooks-opens-room-for/ Federal judge in Delaware throws out school prayer lawsuit USA Today The suit accused the board of violating the constitutional separation of church and state with prayer that the plaintiffs said excluded other groups. ... http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2010-02-24-school-prayer_N.htm ADF File Appeal In Forsyth County Prayer Ruling WFMY News 2 ADF represents the board in a lawsuit filed in 2007 by the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State--a lawsuit ... http://www.digtriad.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=138024&catid=57 MISCELLANEOUS C Street house target of clergy's IRS complaint Washington Post - By Peter Slevin The owners of a $1.8 million townhouse on Capitol Hill that has been home and refuge to conservative members of Congress are wrongly claiming a federal tax exemption reserved for religious establishments, 13 Ohio clergy members contend in a complaint to the Internal Revenue Service... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/22/AR2010022204511.html =========================== |