THE FOCUS
DECEMBER 29, 2006 Volume 2, Issue 52
Published by the Center For
Atheism (CFA)
Editor: Suzy
Lanza
The Focus provides links to articles collected from major newspapers & magazines and is 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
Comments, suggestions and subscription:
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This Week's Featured Articles
The flap over whether one newly elected member of Congress can use the Koran rather than the Bible in a private ceremony demonstrates the founding fathers’ wise decision to avoid institutionalizing any religious faith.
... Atheists are often imagined to be intolerant, immoral, depressed, blind to the beauty of nature and dogmatically closed to evidence of the supernatural. ...
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In this concise,
accessible handbook, educators Cameron M. Smith and Charles Sullivan
clearly dispel the ten most common myths about evolution,
...
Talk in Class Turns to god,
Setting Off Public Debate on Rights
Signs of the Cross (and Its
Removal) - Inside Higher Ed
When the College of William & Mary was founded, there wasn’t much of an emphasis on separation of church and state. The college ... |
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ATHEISM
Taiwanese-American hip-hop singer Stanley Huang's ( 黃立行 ) new album has triggered protests from the religious community because the title song is about
THE god DELUSION. By Richard Dawkins - Houston Chronicle
... evolution.". Initially scientists tried to ignore such blather, hoping that issues like creationism and intelligent design would go away. ...
A heat-loving archaeon capable of fixing nitrogen at a surprisingly hot 92 degrees Celsius, or 198 Fahrenheit, may represent Earth's earliest lineages of ...
Lead author Chung-I Wu, professor of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago, says that the rapid advance of the human brain has not been driven by ...
| The scientists who discovered a new microbe describe it as “smaller than any other known cellular life form.” |
HUMOR
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SCIENCE
Natural selection may favor animals that use deceptive tactics, especially when a croak is bigger than its frog.
Scientists have long assumed that smelling underwater was impossible for mammals, but some animals have managed to do so by blowing bubbles.
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| In the video,
much of which was filmed inside the Pentagon, four generals and three
colonels praise the Christian Embassy, a group that evangelizes among
... |
| More people in Britain think religion causes harm than believe it does good, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today. It shows that an overwhelming ... |
... the liberal Interfaith Alliance, said her encouragement of such overt religiosity raised “red flags” about the traditional separation of church and 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...