February 15, 2008                                                                       Volume 4, Issue 7                                                                                  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.

This Week in Atheism is a cable show that discusses the articles featured below, every Wednesday at 6:30 PM (EST), Manhattan Cable station 57. 
Live streaming is available at: http://www.mnn.org.

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Featured Articles
 
Religion Joins Custody Cases, to Judges’ Unease - New York Times
Child-custody conflicts over religion are increasing,but constitutional issues make them hard for courts to resolve.
Faith Forum: Should religion play a role in choosing a candidate? -Lawrence Journ 
Are we going to get behind this separation of church and state thing or not? The 
longer, more thoughtful answer has to do with vision. ... 
 
News Articles  (Some publications may require that you sign up for membership to view their article.)

ATHEISM
Atheist group calls former church home - Atlanta Journal Constitution 
By GAYLE WHITE The Atlanta Freethought Society, an educational organization for atheists and agnostics, will begin meeting this spring at the former Collins ...

BOOKS, FILM, THEATRE, TV, YOU TUBE
Grace: A faith and atheism dialogue on stage
Darwin's struggle with religion were depicted in Trumpery and more recently, Spinoza's atheism was the center piece in New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656. ...
 
Evolution in Health and Disease (New Book) - Methuselah Foundation  
Evolution in Health and Disease describes how evolutionary thinking gives valuable insights and fresh perspectives into human health and disease, ...

EVOLUTION, CREATIONISM, I.D.
Evolution Is Our History - Tampa Tribune 
Evolution explains, in very specific physical terms, how living things change through time (for example, how does bacteria become resistant to antibiotics? ...

SCIENCE
California company claims faster, cheaper gene map | Science | Reuters
A California company predicts it will soon be able to sequence an entire human gene map in four minutes, for just $1000.

Smaller Version of the Solar System Is Discovered - New York Times
Astronomers have found a miniature version of our own solar system 5,000 light years across the galaxy — the first planetary system that really looks like our own.

SEPARATION CHURCH / STATE
A debate created in America - Chicago Tribune 
In October, the 47-nation Council of Europe, a human-rights watchdog, condemned all attempts to bring creationism into Europe's schools. ...

MISCELLANEOUS
Jesus cosmetics prove too cheeky for Singapore | Lifestyle ...
Want to use Jesus hand cream? Well, you can't anymore. At least not in Singapore. A Singapore-based retailer pulled a line of cheeky ...
 
CONVENTIONS / MEETINGS / EVENTS
 
American Atheists
 
                                        
 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    
           
 
        CFA Program
 
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-and-state advocates. 

CFA will accept and review suggestions from individuals and other secular organizations that will foster our goals.
 
 
Special Notices

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