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                                      THE FOCUS                                               

 DECEMBER 1, 2006                                                     Volume 2, Issue 47/48

 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 

 

Some scientists at a recent conference called on their colleagues to be less timid in challenging teachings about nature based only on scripture and belief.
 
Videos of the above conference
 
Christmas wars
 
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                                      SECTION ONE: NEWS ARTICLES

(some publications may require that you sign up for membership to view their article)

                                                        ATHEISM

 
 
US Mint Appeases Atheists - Judicial Watch
... In god We Trust” that must appear on all United States currency has been excluded from the face of a new US dollar in an effort to appease atheists who have ...
 
Portland Mercury - News - City - Suspension of Disbelief
Suspension of Disbelief. Art Student Expelled—For Atheism?
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BOOKS / MOVIES / THEATRE / TV / VIDEOS
  
The Seductions of Misbelief 
 
NPR RADIO SHOW - HERETICS
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CREATIONISM / EVOLUTION / I.D.

 

Dolphin With Extra Fins Found - NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE

Proving that showing a little "leg" can really grab attention, a dolphin with four fins has scientists speculating that the animal may be an evolutionary throwback.

 

It Wasn’t Diet That Took Out the Competition - New York Times

 

Evolution: Who Gave Us Our Smarts? - Newsweek Periscope - MSNBC.com  

 

Stephen Bates is given a sneak preview of the world's first Creationist museum | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

 

The evolution of intelligence, and why our brains have shrunk - PhysOrg.com
Wanting to better understand the origins of human uniqueness, scientists from the University of Tennessee have recently modeled the evolution of the brain
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HUMOR

 

Door To Door Atheists Bother Mormons - BREAK.com

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SCIENCE

The Best Science Show on Television? - NYT
In a subtle and goofily educational way, the hosts of "Mythbusters" commit mayhem for science´s sake.
 
 
 
 
 
Marine Life Leaped From Simple to Complex After Greatest Mass Extinction - New York Times
New research suggests that the "great dying" 251 million years ago was followed by an explosion of complexity in marine life that has persisted ever since.  
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SEPARATION CHURCH / STATE
 
Holiday displays still divide us - NorthJersey.com
... Still, many towns wrestle with the argument that religious symbols violate the separation of church and state or exclude people of other faiths. ...
 
text of a sermon given in 2004 that has All Saints Episcopal Church under an Internal Revenue Service investigation.
 
Add a Press Release from the JWV
The Jewish War Veterans of the USA (JWV) commends the Toys for Tots program, ... We can’t take a chance on sending a talking Jesus doll to a Jewish family ...
High Court Refuses Maine Case That Sought To Force Private School Aid
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MISC.
 
 
 
 
Can Psychology Be Positive about Religion?
 
 
 
  
The current counterattack on religion cloaks a renewed and intense anxiety within secular society that the story of the Enlightenment may be more illusory than real.
 
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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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