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FEATURED ARTICLES
Christian group required to pay taxes for lobbying
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
... organization," said Holly Huber, who filed a complaint with the IRS in June on behalf of Hawaii Citizens for the Separation of State and Church. ...
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/hawaiinews/20100917_Christian_group_required_to_pay_taxes_for_lobbying.html
ATHEISM
Atheist Dawkins rages at pope tying godless, Nazis
USA Today
Dawkins writes: Even if Hitler had been an atheist, his political philosophy was not based upon atheism and had no connection with atheism. ...
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/post/2010/09/pope-benedict-atheists-nazis-richard-dawkins/1
Red River Freethinkers group holds convention in Fargo
Grand Forks Herald
She said the movement is more about humanism, a philosophy based on rational thought and science that rejects religion, than atheism. ...
http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/176039/
Atheist Hitchens skipping prayer day in his honor
The Associated Press
Stricken with cancer and fragile from chemotherapy, author and outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens sits in an armchair before an audience and waits for ...
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iS--TGTopSMStHG8KEuPcNPKRWmgD9IBIRTG0
Hitchens Won't Be Attending Hitchens Prayer Day
TIME
Much to the disappointment of those praying for him, best-selling author and outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens does not plan on participating in ...
http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/09/20/hitchens-wont-be-attending-hitchens-prayer-day/
Atheists, Believers Battle It Out On Tulsa Billboards
News On 6
An atheist group put one up two weeks ago, and now a company has countered with a billboard of its own. The Freedom From Religion Foundation admits it is ...
http://www.newson6.com/Global/story.asp?S=13194860
Sidewalk messages cause controversy at EKU
WYMT
A group at EKU called the Secular Coalition is wanting to promote Hug An Atheist Day, but not everyone on campus is embracing all the sidewalk messages. ...
http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/103572434.html
Atheist shares reason he stopped believing
Rocky Mountain Collegian
Barker discussed his journey to becoming “Godless” as well as his view on religion and the separation of church and state. For Dan Barker, free thinking ...
http://www.collegian.com/index.php/article/2010/09/092310_athiest
BOOKS, FILM, THEATRE, TV, YOU TUBE
Loretta Keller: Film reveals government cover-up of Tillman death
Pasadena Star-News
The oldest of three brothers who grew up in Northern California and were raised by their parents to be independent thinkers, he was an avowed atheist who ...
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/opinions/ci_16105355
Friendly-fire documentary clashes with Yale visiting teacher
New Haven Register (subscription)
He was an atheist who read religious texts and despite his disillusionment with the Iraq War, which he believed was illegal, he passed up a chance to get ...
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2010/09/19/news/new_haven/doc4c95805c888c5706139074.txt
'The Tillman Story' tackles a myth and a mystery
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Tillman, defying the easy script, was said to be an atheist who was known to lace his speech with salty language. The Tillman family's habitual use of the ...
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_16151036
EVOLUTION, CREATIONISM, I.D.
Gove tells scientists 'no creationism in science classes' but BHA calls for ...
Politics.co.uk
The response said: 'Creationism and intelligent design are sometimes claimed to be scientific theories. This is not the case as they have no underpinning ...
http://www.politics.co.uk/opinion-formers/press-releases/education/gove-tells-scientists-no-creationism-in-science-classes-but-bha-calls-for-legal-powers-$21384200$365873.htm
SCIENCE
Quantum Tornado in the Electron Beam: Manipulating Materials With Rotating Quantum Particles
ScienceDaily (Sep. 18, 2010) — A team from the University of Antwerp and TU Vienna (Professor Peter Schattschneider, Institute of Solid State Physics) has succeeded in producing what are known as electron vortex beams: rotating electron beams, which make it possible to investigate the magnetic properties of materials. In the future, it may even be possible to manipulate the tiniest components in a targeted manner and set them in rotation...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100916092055.htm
Synthetic Fuels Research Aims to Reduce Oil Dependence
ScienceDaily (Sep. 18, 2010) — Researchers at Purdue University have developed a facility aimed at learning precisely how coal and biomass are broken down in reactors called gasifiers as part of a project to strengthen the scientific foundations of the synthetic fuel economy...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100915100933.htm
NASA Uses New Method to Estimate Earth Mass Movements
ScienceDaily (Sep. 18, 2010) — NASA and European researchers have conducted a novel study to simultaneously measure, for the first time, trends in how water is transported across Earth's surface and how the solid Earth responds to the retreat of glaciers following the last major Ice Age, including the shifting of Earth's center of mass...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100916090841.htm
Brain Matter Linked to Introspective Thoughts: Structure of Prefrontal Cortex Helps Humans Think About One's Own Thinking
ScienceDaily (Sep. 17, 2010) — A specific region of the brain appears to be larger in individuals who are good at turning their thoughts inward and reflecting upon their decisions, according to new research published in the journal Science. This act of introspection -- or "thinking about your thinking" -- is a key aspect of human consciousness, though scientists have noted plenty of variation in peoples' abilities to introspect...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100916145047.htm
Moon's Craters Give New Clues to Early Solar System Bombardment
ScienceDaily (Sep. 17, 2010) — Take a cursory look at the moon, and it can resemble a pockmarked golf ball. The dimples and divots on its surface are testament that our satellite has withstood a barrage of impacts from comets, asteroids and other space matter throughout much of its history. Because the geological record of that pummeling remains largely intact, scientists have leaned on the moon to reconstruct the chaotic early days of the inner solar system...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100916145051.htm
Tyrannosaurus Redux: T. Rex Was More Than Just a Large Carnivore at Top of Food Chain, New Findings Reveal
ScienceDaily (Sep. 17, 2010) — We've all heard this story: the Late Cretaceous of Asia and North America -- about 65 million years ago -- was dominated by several large-headed, bipedal predatory dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex and Tarbosaurus that had tiny arms. But a decade of new fossil discoveries that have more than doubled the number of known tyrannosaur species has changed this tale. Older and smaller tyrannosaurs have made the evolutionary tree of this group richer and more complex...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100916145131.htm
Surprisingly Complicated Molecule Found in Outer Space
ScienceDaily (Sep. 17, 2010) — In interstellar clouds of extremely small density scientists managed to find a molecule that has an unexpectedly complicated structure. The discovery will force a change in the way of thinking about chemical processes occurring in the apparently empty areas of the galaxy...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100915084456.htm
Optical Chip Enables New Approach to Quantum Computing
ScienceDaily (Sep. 17, 2010) — An international research group led by scientists from the University of Bristol has developed a new approach to quantum computing that could soon be used to perform complex calculations that cannot be done by today's computers...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100916145049.htm
SEPARATION CHURCH / STATE
Santorum v. JFK: Debating separation of church and state
USA Today
... who became the nation's first Catholic president after assuring suspicious voters that "I believe the separation of church and state is absolute. ...
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2010/09/santorum-v-jfk-debating-separation-of-church-and-state/1
Veteran Claims He Filed Complaint About Christian Flag
My Fox 8
The man said after no response from the city of King, he anonymously filed complaints with American's United for Separation of Church and State and the ACLU ...
http://www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-story-veteran-flag-100917,0,6061461.story
Controversial Cross Moved From Warsaw Presidential Palace
The Epoch Times
I took them in the conviction that such a move would serve the long-standing principle of mutual respect and separation between church and state," President ...
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/42801/
Prayer at Pt. Beach meetings challenged
Asbury Park Press
Although the complaint raises the separation of church and state as upheld by the federal courts, the suit was filed in state court because Cadalzo and the ...
http://www.app.com/article/20100919/NEWS/9190356/Prayer-at-Pt-Beach-meetings-challenged
Council members insist they could only pray to Jesus Christ
The Tand D.com
BRANCHVILLE - The weighty issue of separation of church and state surfaced at Branchville Town Council's September meeting. Council members agreed to begin ...
http://thetandd.com/news/local/article_2e69afc0-c46b-11df-aff0-001cc4c03286.html
FFRF letter: SRS urged to eliminate promoting prayer
Aiken Standard (subscription)
... a national organization that has as its purpose to "protect the constitutional principle of separation between state and church," urged SRS to ...
http://www.aikenstandard.com/Local/0921-SRS-Prayer
Mosque visit violated student rights, Wellesley mother's lawyer says
Boston Globe
''l firmly believe in the separation of church and state, and there's nothing out there in the literature and guidance that suggests that this is clearly a ...
http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/wellesley/2010/09/mosque_visit_violated_student.html
Group protests Christian concert at Fort Bragg
USA Today
Americans United for the Separation of Church and State said in a statement Thursday that the planned event — a concert and other activities called "Rock ...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2010-09-24-bragg23_ST_N.htm
MISCELLANEOUS
On the Advice of the FBI, Cartoonist Molly Norris Disappears From View
Sep 15, 2010 ... You may have noticed that Molly Norris' comic is not in the paper this week. That's because there is no more Molly. The gifted artist is ...
http://www.seattleweekly.com/2010-09-15/news/on-the-advice-of-the-fbi-cartoonist-molly-norris-disappears-from-view/
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