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FEATURED ARTICLES Faith Diary: Faith Falls Down Under BBC News By Robert Pigott The world's leading atheists are travelling to Australia this month for a conference designed to show the world that atheism is a force to ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8555953.stm ATHEISM Atheists, agnostics to put ads on buses Detroit Free Press BY NIRAJ WARIKOO A group of atheists and agnostics hope to spread their views through public advertisements that are to start appearing today on public ... http://www.freep.com/article/20100304/NEWS05/3040391/1001/News/Atheists-agnostics-to-put-ads-on-buses Atheist guilty over cartoons left at Liverpool airport BBC News Anti-religious campaigners have condemned the conviction of a "militant atheist" who left rude images in Liverpool Airport's prayer room. ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/8549613.stm Group seeks to prove atheists can be giving too Atlanta Journal Constitution He believes atheists and others who don't believe in a higher power are at a disadvantage when it comes to supporting various charitable causes for one ... http://www.ajc.com/news/group-seeks-to-prove-347238.html Liberals, Atheists Are More Highly Evolved? National Geographic If that's the case, Kanazawa's conclusions only make sense if, say, being liberal or atheist also makes you more sexually attractive. (Take a Darwin quiz. ... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100303-liberals-atheists-smarter-evolution-evolved/ UTSA atheist group receives widespread attention for its 'smut' exchange UT The Daily Texan The fourth annual “Smut for Smut” event, hosted by the Atheist Agenda March 1-3, offered free pornography magazines like Playboy and Penthouse to students ... http://www.dailytexanonline.com/state-local/utsa-atheist-group-receives-widespread-attention-for-its-smut-exchange-1.2185168 US Governor Assaults Atheist | Latest Join our Action Response Team to respond quickly to atheist discrimination and church-state entanglement threats when they arise! ... http://www.atheistalliance.org/Latest/US-Governor-Assaults-Atheist.html Bibles and porn, same difference ? The Observers A stand set up by students on the college campus of the University of San Antonio, Texas, caused quite a stir last week: a group of atheist students were ... http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20100309-trade-bibles-porn-usa-san-antonio-university-atheism-christians-smut Do Liberals, Atheists Have Higher IQs? BusinessWeek By Jennifer Thomas TUESDAY, March 9 (HealthDay News) -- People who consider themselves liberals or atheists tend to have higher IQs than those who are more ... http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/636619.html Equality Bill guidance on protected beliefs 'confusing' for employers PersonnelToday.com This can include humanism and atheism. In addition, a belief does not need to include a faith or worship of a god, which can cover veganism. ... http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2010/03/10/54591/equality-bill-guidance-on-protected-beliefs-confusing-for.html US creationists unswayed by evolution exhibition Telegraph.co.uk By Virginie Montet, in Washington for AFP The group included a biology major who didn't understand the principle of evolution. Each year, a group of biology ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/7412606/US-creationists-unswayed-by-evolution-exhibition.html BOOKS, FILM, THEATRE, TV, YOU TUBE A Species Worthy of Survival East Hampton Star By Larry Penny (03/04/2010) Evolution, special creation, and intelligent design, what's it matter? Gluons, hadrons, and the 26 defined quarkish particles, ... http://www.easthamptonstar.com/dnn/Arts/Book/tabid/11439/Default.aspx Column: Going under cover, Atheist author joins Falwell's church to try to ... Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com Her parents were atheists and political liberals, and so was she. All she really knew about conservative evangelicals was that they were trying to change ... http://www.mlive.com/opinion/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2010/03/column_going_under_cover_athei.html RICHARD DAWKINS – THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH Opera House, March 7 Sydney Morning Herald Dawkins noted that, as evidence against intelligent design, giraffes, like humans, have a nerve connection from the brain to the larynx that loops through ... http://direct.fairfax.com.au/hserver/SITE=ONL.MH.SMH.NEWS/AREA=NEWS.SMH.NATIONAL/CTYPE=ARTICLE/PAGEID=586181/ACC_RANDOM=126169/CAT=NATIONAL/ISIFRAME=YES/AAMSZ=1X1 EVOLUTION, CREATIONISM, I.D. Lemur Mistaken For 'Missing Link' in Evolution Before It's News In an article now available online in the Journal of Human Evolution, four scientists present evidence that the 47-million-year-old Darwinius masillae is ... http://beforeitsnews.com/news/22034/Lemur_Mistaken_For_Missing_Link_in_Evolution.html Creationists seek to stop the teaching of global warming Mother Nature Network (Photo: Genista/Flickr) Critics of the teaching of evolution in science classrooms are now taking up a new strategy in forwarding their legislative agenda: ... http://www.mnn.com/family/education-activities/stories/creationists-seek-to-stop-the-teaching-of-global-warming State board undergoes political shift ReporterNews.com ... as some of the most socially conservative members won't return, including some who supported teaching concepts like intelligent design in science class. ... http://www.reporternews.com/news/2010/mar/04/state-board-undergoes-political-shift/ Kamloops atheist group takes issue with how creationism is taught at Kamloops ... Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal According to a local atheist group, however, evolution is the way of the world and all publicly funded schools should teach as such. ... http://www.bclocalnews.com/news/86407677.html Primary Elections Tip State Education Board's Balance of Power KERA George Clayton says, among other things, he does not think the strengths and weaknesses of evolution should be taught in science class... http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kera/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1620142/North.Texas/Primary.Elections.Tip.State.Education.Board's.Balance.of.Power • Darwin foes add global warming to target ... Hamilton Spectator Critics of the teaching of evolution in America's classrooms are gaining ground in some states by linking the issue to global warming, arguing that ... http://www.thespec.com/News/BreakingNews/article/733394 Controversy over evolution over in Israel? National Center for Science Education In a letter released by Israel's ministry of education on March 3, 2010, Gavriel Avital promised to follow the ministry's policy on evolution and the ... http://ncse.com/news/2010/03/controversy-over-evolution-over-israel-005362 Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution The Associated Press But she watched Elizabeth's excitement turn to confusion when they reached the evolution section of the book from Apologia Educational Ministries, ... http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h3x1DHDjafMujXt9RNwwH6ugU9NgD9E9AOV80 Indonesian 'hobbit' challenges evolutionary theory The Associated Press Almost overnight, the find threatened to change our understanding of human evolution. It would mean contemplating the possibility that not all the answers ... http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gEFmNjBaCy9lw5R5z1xwPVPGB3ewD9E9J5V80 Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution WSBT-TV By Jason Overholt LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Christian-based textbooks are dominant in a growing home-school education market that encompasses more than 1.5 ... http://www.wsbt.com/news/regional/86850452.html The Monkey Bible Project's Teaching Evolution Contest Benzinga The Monkey Bible Project is sponsoring a Teaching Evolution Contest to promote imaginative and scientifically rigorous teaching of evolution that is ... http://www.benzinga.com/press-releases/b161669/the-monkey-bible-project%E2%80%99s-teaching-evolution-contest Creationist takes on Dawkins Stuff.co.nz ... now based in the United States, has written his own introduction to Darwin's groundbreaking work on evolution, where he argues for intelligent design. ... http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/3421162/Creationist-takes-on-Dawkins 'Intelligent design' supporters ready for Dawkins 3News By Lachlan Forsyth Richard Dawkins, the world's most famous atheist and a scathing critic of creationist arguments, has arrived ahead of a nationwide ... http://www.3news.co.nz/Intelligent-design-supporters-ready-for-Dawkins/tabid/423/articleID/145482/Default.aspx SCIENCE New Imaging Technology Brings Trace Chemicals Into Focus ScienceDaily (Mar. 12, 2010) — Arizona State Univeristy scientist N.J. Tao and his colleagues at the Biodesign Institute have hit on a new, versatile method to significantly improve the detection of trace chemicals important in such areas as national security, human health and the environment... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100311141211.htm Biologists Find Proof of First Confirmed Species of Monogamous Frog ScienceDaily (Mar. 12, 2010) — Amphibians may be a love 'em and leave 'em class, but one frog species defies the norm, scientists have found... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100311192933.htm Fossil Bird Eggshell Provides Source of Ancient DNA ScienceDaily (Mar. 12, 2010) — In a world first an international team of researchers, led by Dr Michael Bunce of Murdoch University, have successfully isolated ancient DNA from fossil eggshell remains of extinct birds... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100310211824.htm Calculations Made by Physicist Gustav Mie in 1908 Put to Test on Single Nanoparticles ScienceDaily (Mar. 13, 2010) — Calculations are fine, but seeing is believing. That's the thought behind a new paper by Rice University students who decided to put to the test calculations made more than a century ago... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100312173628.htm Mars Dunes: On the Move? ScienceDaily (Mar. 13, 2010) — New studies of ripples and dunes shaped by the winds on Mars testify to variability on that planet, identifying at least one place where ripples are actively migrating and another where the ripples have been stationary for 100,000 years or more... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100304184156.htm Scientists Identify Driving Forces in Human Cell Division ScienceDaily (Mar. 14, 2010) — If you can imagine identical twin sisters at rest, their breath drawing them subtly together and apart, who somehow latch onto ropes that pull them to opposite sides of the bed -- you can imagine what happens to a chromosome in the dividing cell... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100310091652.htm Quantum Dots Spotlight DNA-Repair Proteins in Motion ScienceDaily (Mar. 14, 2010) — Repair proteins appear to efficiently scan the genome for errors by jumping like fleas between DNA molecules, sliding along the strands, and perhaps pausing at suspicious spots, say researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Essex and the University of Vermont who tagged the proteins with quantum dots to watch the action unfold... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100311123522.htm SEPARATION CHURCH / STATE Bishops want debate with Cabral on condoms GMA news.tv But Cabral shot back, saying there is a separation of Church and State. She also said the Church is partly to blame for blocking AIDS-prevention efforts. ... http://www.gmanews.tv/story/185496/bishops-want-debate-with-cabral-on-condoms Chaplain web page subject of complaint MyFox Tampa Bay SPRING HILL - A constitutional showdown over the separation of church and state is shaping up in the Spring Hill fire district in Hernando County. ... http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/local/nature_coast/308-chaplain-website-subject-of-complaint Osceola meeting prayer not likely to change Orlando Sentinel In 2007, the Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a Washington DC group, complained. At the time, the commission agreed to invite leaders of ... http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/osceola/os-osceola-commission-prayer-20100309,0,7084870.story Online extra: Wedding Bell Blues: Advocacy group to share stories of DOMA's impact Bay Area Reporter The declaration calls for the recognition of separation of church and state, Catholic teaching on social justice, and the historic denial of civil rights ... http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4610 Court: 'Under God' and 'In God We Trust' are constitutional USA Today The phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" on US money do not violate the Constitution's separation of church and state, ... http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/03/court-under-god-and-in-god-we-trust-are-constitutional-/1 Roswell Council won't pray before meetings NorthFulton.com Cobb County) that held the Cobb County Commission does not violate the US Constitution and the separation of church and state by conducting prayers before ... http://www.northfulton.com/Articles-c-2010-03-11-182471.114126-sub_Roswell_Council_wont_pray_before_meetings.html MISCELLANEOUS Defectors Say Church of Scientology Hides Abuse By LAURIE GOODSTEIN Fifty-six years after its founding, the church is fighting off calls by former members for a reformation... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/us/07scientology.html?th&emc=th =========================== |