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Section #2: CFA
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Section #3: Special
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Section #4: Legislation Alerts
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This Week's Featured Articles
Talk of the Nation, October 20, 2006 · Can the "fossil genes" found in DNA be used to prove evolution? Sean B. Carroll, author of The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution, argues that the DNA evidence can be used to convince people, beyond a reasonable doubt, that evolution is real.
Battle of the New
Atheism - Wired
News
This is the challenge posed by the New Atheists.
... The New Atheists will not let us off the hook simply because we are not
doctrinaire believers. ...
Sharing the Health Bills -
NYT
Religious exemptions are being tested as more medical bill-sharing
ministries compete with businesses that are not eligible for the same
breaks.
The young British South-Asian Muslim women who veil Saudi-style are rejecting not just mainstream British society, but their parents' and grandparents' accommodation with its values.
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The
Blog | Richard Dawkins: Why There Almost Certainly Is No god | The Huffington
Post
The Cincinnati Post - Kevin Eigelbach: Atheist kicks up storm ...
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Atheist kicks up storm about act ... director
for American Atheists Inc., the organization founded by famous atheist
Madalyn Murray O'Hair. ...
Beliefwatch: The Atheist - Newsweek ... "I love Christmas and stained glass." As a child, he declined to be bar mitzvahed, but he did not call himself an atheist until after the 2005 pub-lication of ... |
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The nub of Dawkins's consciousness- raising message is that to be an atheist is a "brave and splendid" aspiration. Belief ...
Darwin's entire works go online, October 18, 2006
Is intelligent design really science? | Progressive U
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Does Not Lead to a Healthier Society
String theory continues to offer profound breadth and enormous potential to explain matter's fundamental constituents.
I didn't buy the death of the Big Bang 15 years ago, and I don't buy the criticism now
| BRIAN GREENE, a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia, is the author of The Elegant Universe ... |
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Politics & the
pulpit - Colorado Springs
Gazette
... Sheridan’s statement drew national attention, and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State asked the IRS to revoke the diocese’s tax ... Watchdog Group Accuses
Churches of Political Action - NYT
A nonprofit group has filed a complaint asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the role that two churches may have played in the re-election campaign of Kansas's attorney general. Re the NYTimes
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Evangelical Christian leaders are warning one another that their teenagers are abandoning the faith in droves.
An Episcopal bishop authorized priests to bless same-sex unions, a move that could further alienate the conservative wing of his church.
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SECTION THREE: SPECIAL NOTICES
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