THE   FOCUS
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January 16, 2008 Volume 4, Issue 1-3
Published by the Center For Atheism (CFA)

Editor: Kenneth Bronstein

The Focus provides links to articles collected from major newspapers and magazines, and is emailed weekly.

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       Featured Articles
       Science, Evolution, and Creationism released - National Center for Science Education
       The National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine recently released
       Science, Evolution, and Creationism, a book designed to give the public...
    A "Church" for Atheist/Humanist - bigbang123
       Since January, the Center for Inquiry in Amherst, New York, a science-promoting 
       umbrella group, has sponsored or helped organize more than 50 atheist outfits on
       campuses from the University of Georgia Law School to the University of ...
 
      Atheist Goes To Court To Prevent Son From Attending Catholic School - WLKY 
      David Ryan, the father, is an atheist. The mother is a Roman Catholic. Their son, who
      is in the eighth grade, attends a Catholic school in Oldham County. ...
 
      Atheist Files Discrimination Suit Against Wal-Mart - WMTW
       
Christopher Nolan, 27, claimed he was asked to dress as Santa last month at the
      Sanford Wal-Mart but would not, saying he was an atheist and didn’t believe ....
 
                        BILLBOARD ON NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE
 
 
    Congress Aims to Dumb Down History,Pushes Fiction of Christian ... -Common Dreams 
    The Secular Coalition for America is the national lobby for atheists, humanists, 
    freethinkers and other nontheistic Americans with the unique mission of ...
 
    Military Evangelism Deeper, Wider Than First Thought - The Baltimore Chronicle
    ... into the world as Government paid missionaries" - which appears to be a clear-cut
    violation of federal law governing the separation of church and state. ...
 
    Decorated holiday tree is vandalized four times - Philadelphia Inquirer
    Margaret Downey, immediate past president of the society, has defined the 
    organization as "welcoming to agnostics, atheists, humanists, skeptics, ...

 

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ATHEISM

Atheist in protest over 'Christian-run' leisure - Blackpool Gazette
Atheist is mounting a one-man protest against the handover of leisure facilities in Wyre to the YMCA.

BOOKS, FILM, TV, YOU TUBE

New Jerusalem - David Ives - Theater - Review - New York Times
David Ives serves up a straight drama full of heady talk about god and nature and the ... So, Young Mr. Spinoza, Just What Is Your Thinking About god? ...
 
Atheist Manifesto : The Case Against ...
by Michel Onfray - 2007 - 252 pages

EVOLUTION, CREATIONISM, I.D.

Texas delays decision on offering science degree at creation college -Dallas Morning News
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board said Tuesday that it will wait until April to decide whether the Institute for Creation Research can offer an ...

Top 10 reasons supporting evolution - Orlando Sentinel
9) Imagine if you are god trying to explain random mutations to a guy transcribing with a chisel and slate. 8) Using primitive nucleic acids and amino acids ..

SCIENCE

Team Creates Rat Heart Using Cells of Baby Rats - New York Times
The accomplishment gave a significant boost to medicine’s dream of growing human organs to replace damaged ones.
 
Big Brain Theory: Have Cosmologists Lost Theirs? - New York Times
A bizarre scenario takes theories of modern cosmology to the limit.

Monkey’s Thoughts Propel Robot, a Step That May Help Humans - New York Times

For the first time, brain signals have been used to make a robot walk.

Stem cell bank proposed | Science | Reuters
Creating a bank to store a new type of stem cell produced from donors' ordinary skin cells could help reduce time and money for treating ...
 
SEPARATION CHURCH / STATE
Presidential Campaign Ads Call for Protection of Religious Freedom - BBSNews
First Freedom First, a joint project of Americans United for Separation of Church and State and The Interfaith Alliance Foundation, is launching the new ...
 
Entangling church, state is a recipe for disaster - Winston-Salem Journal
That wall has enabled both religion and state to prosper and grow strong in the US Americans who would eliminate the separation of church and state should ...
 
Bryant High blasted for showing religious film - Dateline Alabama
A Washington-based watchdog group that advocates the separation of church and state has demanded that
...
 
City to return donation made in Jesus' name Church gave $1000 for ... - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Fournier said it failed a three-part test set by the US Supreme Court for the separation of church and state. "A citizen who reads a plaque in the park that ... 
 
Military Evangelism Deeper, Wider Than First Thought - The Baltimore Chronicle
... into the world as Government paid missionaries" - which appears to be a clear-cut violation of federal law governing the separation of church and state. ...
 
MISCELLANEOUS
  Stanley Fish - Think Again - Opinion - New York Times Blog
  It is not the business of the humanities to save us, no more than it is ...
  FBI wiretap cut off for unpaid bill | Oddly Enough | Reuters
  A telephone company cut off an FBI international wiretap after the agency failed to 
  pay its bill on time, according to a US ...
 
  The Moral Instinct - New York Times
  Evolution has endowed us with ethical impulses. Do we know what to do with them?
   
  CONVENTIONS / MEETINGS / EVENTS
 
Darwin Day 
(200th Birthday)
 
 American Atheists
 
                                        
Feb. 12, 2008
 
 
Mar 21- 23, 2008
 
 
 
 
Minneapolis, MN
 
 Madalyn Murray O'Hair                                   April 13, 2008
 (Birthday)
 
 Gift for Life Day                                                May 1, 2008 
 
 Atheists  Alliance International                    Sept. 2008                Long Beach, Ca.
 
 Freedom From Religion                                Oct. 10-12, 2008       Chicago
 
 Gift for Life Day                                                Nov. 4, 2008    
 
             

 

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