THE FOCUS
OCTOBER 6, 2006 Volume 2, Issue 40
Published by the Center For
Atheism (CFA)
Editor: Suzy
Lanza
Email:
THEFOCUS@CENTERFORATHEISM.ORG
The Focus will provide links to articles collected from major newspapers & magazines, and will be emailed weekly.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS:
This Week's Featured Articles
Section #1: News
Articles
Section #2: CFA
Programs
Section #3: Special
Notices
Section #4: Legislation Alerts
Please email any comments and suggestions to THEFOCUS@CENTERFORATHEISM.ORG
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This Week's Featured Articles
... Instead, a bright young student asked bluntly: "How can you teach biotechnology in this country when you don't even accept evolution?". ...
Evangelical Christian leaders are warning one another that their teenagers are abandoning the faith in droves.
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Recent research is
providing new insight into experiences more often left to paranormal
explanations. |
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ATHEISM
... The prejudice that this belief suggests toward atheism is ridiculous and offensive as well as dangerous. The pretense of this opinion is laughable.
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FoxFaith, a new division of 20th Century Fox,
will release up to a dozen religious-oriented films each
year.
The god Delusion by Richard Dawkins - InTheNews.co.uk
... Atheists will love Mr Dawkins's incisive logic and rapier wit and theists will find few better tests of the robustness of their faith. ... Moyers on America
- In “Is god Green?” airing Wednesday, October 11 at
9 pm on PBS (check local
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... These findings “help illustrate the beauty and power of evolution — how small changes can have such an incredible impact,” said HHMI investigator Charles ...
Research reveals biological
evolution - United Press International
... led by
University of Michigan evolutionary biologist Yin-Long Qiu says its findings
help resolve long-debated questions about the origin and evolution of land
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SCIENCE
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Evolutionary Psychology
Challenges the Current Social Sciences
American 'Worm People' Win Nobel for RNA Work - NYT Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello won for a discovery about how genes are controlled within living cells. Don't worry, men: Evolution
shows you're still needed - Philadelphia Inquirer
Science may have found an answer to that question made famous by Maureen Dowd: Are men necessary? If other creatures ... | |||
... tiny primitive fish that makes up 70 percent of the biomass in Tampa Bay now say they have found the “missing link” marking the point in evolution that led ...
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Skeptics Society founder
Dr. Michael Shermer sits down for a special, one-hour, one-on-one
interview with James “the Amazing” Randi! ...
Andrew
Sullivan
Brief Journey for an Icon of
the Attack on New York
The cross-shaped beams discovered on Sept. 13, 2001, amid the ruins of 6 World Trade Center are being moved to make way for construction on the east side of the trade center site. |
SECTION TWO: CFA PROGRAMS
The Center for Atheism (CFA) was established by the New York City Atheists as a separate and independent national organization to propose, develop and be a catalyst for new national activities supporting the objectives of atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers, skeptics, secularists and separation-of-church/state advocates.
CFA will accept and review suggestions from individuals and other secular
organizations that will foster our goals.
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SECTION THREE: SPECIAL NOTICES
Galápagos Opportunity!
CRUISE: FEB. 27 - MAR. 7, 2007
Here is a wonderful opportunity to go to the Galápagos islands with Richard Milner, a Darwin scholar, historian of science, editor for Natural History magazine (he was Stephen Jay Gould’s editor), and famous for his singing Darwin show. The best way to see the Galápagos islands is with someone who really knows Darwin’s life, history, and science, and that is why we recommend that you consider joining Richard Milner on this one. Now is the time to book for March. You won’t be disappointed.
SECTION FOUR: LEGISLATION ALERTS
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