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                                      THE FOCUS                                               

 NOVEMBER 17, 2006                                                        Volume 2, Issue 46

 Published by the Center For Atheism (CFA)

Editor: Suzy Lanza

   

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                                                          

       

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                                This Week's Featured Articles 

 

Atheists Discuss the Benefits of Faith - Newsweek
The great Danish physicist Niels Bohr, it is said, had a good-luck horseshoe hanging in his office.
 
Evangelical summer camp shown in film to end
 
Elton John says religion encourages hate - Celebrity News - MSNBC.com
Organized religion fuels anti-gay discrimination and other forms of bias, pop star Elton John said in an ... Elton John: Religion creates ‘hateful lemmings’ ...
 
Interview With an Atheist: Part II - American Chronicle
This is Part II of a series of articles wherein I imagine myself, as an atheist, being interviewed by a representative theist. ...

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                                      SECTION ONE: NEWS ARTICLES

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ATHEISM

 
Spreading the word of atheism to the masses - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Ryan Langley an evangelical atheist who was recently hired by the Secular Students Association to do outreach talks to UCLA student Kelsey Mulrooney, 17 at ...
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BOOKS / MOVIES / THEATRE / TV / VIDEOS
 
 
American Scientist Online - Escaping Illusion? Breaking the Spell book review
 
 
'Flock of Dodos' documentary, New perspective to evolution/ID ... - Virginia Informer
... ecologist who changed career paths to get involved in the filmmaking industry, showed his documentary, “Flock of Dodos: The Evolution/Intelligent Design ...
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CREATIONISM / EVOLUTION / I.D.

 

CU Researcher May Have Human Evolution Answers - cbs4denver.com
A breakthrough study by a University of Colorado researcher may help answer one of the fundamental questions about human evolution. ...

 
De-evolution or Evolution? - ProgressiveU.org
... Scientists evoke a scenario of 'evolution running in reverse', returning to primeval seas of
hundreds and millions of years ago. ... De-evolution of the ocean? ...
 

Neandertal DNA Partially Mapped, Studies Show - NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE

 

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Special Report ...
Special Report: Lucy's Baby -- Science and Technology from Scientific American: daily science news and ...
 
Short Legs Win Evolution Battle - LiveScience.com
... Countering the widespread view of evolution as an eon-long process, evolutionary biologists discovered that when island lizards were exposed to a new predator ...
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HUMOR

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4e42GDb2Zw

Jon Stewart's bit on Ted Haggard

 

George Carlin on Ten Commandments

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SCIENCE

 
 
 
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SEPARATION CHURCH / STATE
 
 
Colleges Pledge Ban Exposes Need for SCOTUS to Address the Issue
 
 
 
Americans United Files Litigation Challenging Veterans Administration Bias Against Wiccans
 
Putting Faith Before Politics - NYT
Evangelicals aren´t re-examining their political priorities nearly as much as they are re-examining their spiritual priorities, and that could be bad news for both political parties.
 
Conservatives: Keep Gay Marriage Out of the Courts - NYT
The wave of marriage amendments — at least those that go beyond removing the issue from judicial resolution — should stop.
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MISC.
 
 
For Evangelicals, Supporting Israel Is 'God's Foreign Policy' - NYT
Many conservative Christians say they believe that support for Israel fulfills a biblical injunction to protect the Jewish state.
 
 
 
 
 

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                                      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

 

No special notices for this week... 

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                                SECTION FOUR: LEGISLATION ALERTS

 

No special notices for this week... 

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