ATHEISM

Richard Dawkins slaps creationists into the primordial soup
Times Online - UK
"He has brought atheism proudly out of the closet," Davies says. Dawkins has a real-life connection with Doctor Who: he is married to Lalla Ward, ...
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article4331024.ece

Colourful papal opponents
Newstalk ZB - New Zealand
.. wearing shirts emblazoned with slogans including "Bless me father for I am homo", "Thank God I'm an atheist" and "If God hates fags then I hate God". ...
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/newsdetail1.asp?storyID=140981

BOOKS, FILM, THEATRE, TV, YOU TUBE

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ScienceBlogs - USA
.. Safran is so fed up with mormons ringing his doorbell early in the morning that he flies to Salt Lake City Utah and tries to convert Mormons to atheism. ..
http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/07/door_to_door_atheists_bother_m.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellink

Randal Keynes's favourite books about evolution
guardian.co.uk - UK
Darwin was always toying with ideas as he observed and experimented, and one way to understand the theory of evolution is to follow in his mental footsteps. ..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/jul/17/evolution.bestbooks

EVOLUTION, CREATIONISM, I.D.
Intelligent Design, Evolution, Information and Purple People Eaters
Discovery Institute - Seattle,WA,USA
What do intelligent design, evolution, information and purple people eaters all have in common? Well, they all took front stage at Freedomfest in Las Vegas ...
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2008/07/intelligent_design_evolution_i.html

AT THE CONVERGENCE OF EVOLUTION AND GENETICS
ScienceBlogs - USA
The idea of a great chain of being, starting with bacteria and progressing through animals to humans, permeates much of the popular discussion of evolution. ...http://scienceblogs.com/evolgen/2008/07/the_great_chain_of_phylogeneti.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellink

Inquiry into evolution yields advances today
The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com - Jackson,MI,USA
SUMMIT TOWNSHIP — Emil Teegardin (VOP, June 2) suggests that the evolution/intelligent design debate should be relegated to the comics page. ...
http://blog.mlive.com/citpat_opinion/2008/07/inquiry_into_evolution_yields.html

Scientists link fish mating calls to human evolution
Cape Cod Times - Hyannis,MA,USA
By Aaron Gouveia After a male midshipman — a West Coast fish closely related to the local toadfish — builds a nest, he produces a prolonged foghorn-type hum ..
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080719/NEWS/807190309

How 'Stealth Ideology' Helped Bush Shred the Constitution
The People's Voice - Nashville,TN,USA
The stealth ideology is called 'intelligent design'. Intelligent design was thus packaged. It is stealth ideology designed (not so intelligently) to pass ...
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/07/20/how_stealth_ideology_helped_bush_shred_t

Monkeying with evolution
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
In fact, there are some good reasons for leftists' caution: We've already seen the gross misuse of evolution -- under the guise of Social Darwinism and the ..
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-op-barash20-2008jul20,0,3570171.story

ADL reiterates its support of evolution education
National Center for Science Education - Oakland,CA,USA
Its recent activities in opposing attacks on evolution education include denouncing two recent creationist films that purport to link evolutionary science ...
http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/news/2008/US/661_adl_reiterates_its_support_of__7_22_2008.asp

Dinosaur evolution tree yields diversity secrets
The Tech Herald - Indianapolis,IN,USA
by Rich Bowden - Jul 23 2008, 22:27 An evolutionary tree, known as a "supertree" has found dinosaurs had stopped evolving 50 million years before they ...
http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200830/1564/Dinosaur-evolution-tree-yields-diversity-secrets

Where Is Human Evolution Heading?
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
By Nancy Shute If you judge the progress of humanity by Homer Simpson, Paris Hilton, and Girls Gone Wild videos, you might conclude that our evolution has ..
http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2008/07/24/where-is-human-evolution-heading.html

SCIENCE

Dust Storms In Sahara Desert Sustain Life In Atlantic Ocean
ScienceDaily (July 19, 2008) — Research at the University of Liverpool has found how Saharan dust storms help sustain life over extensive regions of the North Atlantic Ocean...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080718074110.htm

Bullying And Being Bullied Linked To Suicide In Children, Review Of Studies Suggests
ScienceDaily (July 19, 2008) — Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found signs of an apparent connection between bullying, being bullied and suicide in children, according to a new review of studies from 13 countries...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080717170428.htm

Bees Go 'Off-color' When They Are Sickly
ScienceDaily (July 19, 2008) — Bumble-bees go 'off colour' and can't remember which flowers have the most nectar when they are feeling under the weather, a new study from the University of Leicester reveals...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080715204730.htm

Vaccine For Koala Chlamydia Close
ScienceDaily (July 19, 2008) — Eighteen female koalas treated with an anti-chlamydia vaccine are showing positive results, giving scientists hope they have an answer to the disease that is threatening the survival of koalas in the wild...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080717102417.htm

Hydrogen Vehicles Coming Soon? Two Million Could Be On Roads By 2020
ScienceDaily (July 18, 2008) — A transition to hydrogen vehicles could greatly reduce U.S. oil dependence and carbon dioxide emissions, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council, but making hydrogen vehicles competitive in the automotive market will not be easy...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080717101520.htm

Tunguska Catastrophe: Evidence Of Acid Rain Supports Meteorite Theory
ScienceDaily (July 18, 2008) — The Tunguska catastrophe in 1908 evidently led to high levels of acid rain. This is the conclusion reached by Russian, Italian and German researchers based on the results of analyses of peat profiles taken from the disaster region...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080715103956.htm

Volcanic Eruptions May Have Wiped Out Ocean Life 94 Million Years Ago
ScienceDaily (July 18, 2008) — Undersea volcanic activity triggered a mass extinction of marine life and buried a thick mat of organic matter on the sea floor about 93 million years ago, which became a major source of oil, according to a new study...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080717095027.htm

From Humming Fish To Puccini: Vocal Communication Evolved With Ancient Species
ScienceDaily (July 18, 2008) — It's a long way from the dull hums of the amorous midshipman fish to the strains of a Puccini aria -- or, alas, even to the simplest Celine Dion melody. But the neural circuitry that led to the human love song...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080717140435.htm

Glimpses Of Earliest Forms Of Life On Earth: Remnant Of Ancient 'RNA World' Discovered
ScienceDaily (July 18, 2008) — Some bacterial cells can swim, morph into new forms and even become dangerously virulent - all without initial involvement of DNA. Yale University researchers describe July 18 in the journal Science how bacteria accomplish this amazing feat - and in doing so provide a glimpse of what the earliest forms of life on Earth may have looked like...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080717140459.htm

Three Red Spots Mix It Up On Jupiter
ScienceDaily (July 17, 2008) — A new sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images offers an unprecedented view of a planetary game of Pac-Man among three red spots clustered together in Jupiter's atmosphere. The images were taken by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, developed and built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080717134854.htm

Fuel >From Food Waste: Bacteria Provide Power
ScienceDaily (July 17, 2008) — Researchers have combined the efforts of two kinds of bacteria to produce hydrogen in a bioreactor, with the product from one providing food for the other. According to an article in the August issue of Microbiology Today...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080716204805.htm

New Way To Weigh Giant Black Holes
ScienceDaily (July 17, 2008) — How do you weigh the biggest black holes in the universe? One answer now comes from a completely new and independent technique that astronomers have developed using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080716140922.htm

Psychiatric Forensic Patients With Tattoos More Likely To Have Antisocial Personality Disorder
ScienceDaily (July 16, 2008) — The presence of tattoos on forensic psychiatric inpatients should alert clinicians to a possible diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD), and also about the potential for histories of suicide attempt, substance abuse, and sexual abuse, according to research recently published in Personality and Mental Health...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080715204734.htm

Scientists Close In On Source Of X-rays In Lightning
ScienceDaily (July 16, 2008) — University of Florida and Florida Institute of Technology engineering researchers have narrowed the search for the source of X-rays emitted by lightning, a feat that could one day help predict where lightning will strike...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080715152322.htm

Rock Port, Missouri, First 100 Percent Wind-powered Community In U.S.
ScienceDaily (July 16, 2008) — Rock Port Missouri, with a population of just over 1,300 residents, has announced that it is the first 100% wind powered community in the United States. Four wind turbines supply all the electricity for the small town...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080715165441.htm

New Study Sheds Light On How Intracellular Pathogens Trigger The Immune System
ScienceDaily (July 16, 2008) — Disease-causing microbes like the food-borne bacterium Listeria monocytogenes specialize in invading and replicating inside their animal hosts' own cells, making them particularly tricky to defeat. Now, a new study led by biologists at the University of California...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080714172151.htm

Dinosaur supertree unveils evolution secrets
InTheNews.co.uk - London,UK
The tree shows the most likely pattern of evolution for 440 of the 600 known species of dinosaur and allows scientists to look for unusual patterns across ..
http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/science/dinosaur-supertree-unveils-evolution-secrets-$1232953.htm

Evolution of the Enigmatic Eclectus
ScienceBlogs - USA
Heinsohn observed three interrelated traits in these birds that provide special insights into the relationship between ecology and evolution and how they ..
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/07/evolution_of_the_enigmatic_ecl.php

Researcher shows evolution of milkweed defense system
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
"An important question with co-evolution is where does it end?" said Anurag Agrawal, Cornell associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and ...
http://www.physorg.com/news135960491.html

Evolution, Life Sciences, Science Education, Human Evolution, and ...
ScienceBlogs - USA
The complex interconnected dynamics of herbivore-plant co-evolution provides much of the fabric for the ecology of any given terrestrial biome. ...
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/07/the_poison_in_the_leaf_macro_e.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellink

SEPARATION CHURCH / STATE

Obama should avoid pitfalls of mixing church and state
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA
.. funds are devoted to organizations that have religious affiliations, the program immediately raises red flags about separation of church and state. ..
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080719/OPINION01/807190330/1008

Protesters suggest alternative Ten Commandments
Special Broadcasting Service - Australia
"Federal and State Government paid $160 million to support this event, and they can do it because there is no constitutional separation of church and state ...
http://news.sbs.com.au/worldnewsaustralia/protesters_suggest_alternative_ten_commandments_552127

Iris Robinson: it's Government's duty to uphold God's law
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
"But my view would be we have the complete separation of church and state in order to protect people and provide services for people. ...
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/iris-robinson-itrsquos-governmentrsquos-duty-to-uphold-godrsquos-law-13912046.html

Anti Pope rally in Brisbane
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
.. Civil Liberties president Michael Cope said he was attending the rally to try and get a stronger separation in powers between the Church and the State. ..
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24045806-662,00.html

Grant to church spurs suit
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
.. filed suit in a Downstate court, saying the grant deal with Pilgrim Baptist Church violates the constitutional separation between church and state. ...
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1064667,CST-NWS-pilgrim20.article

Will there be prayer at Clemson Council meetings?
Anderson Independent Mail - Anderson,SC,USA
Before the issue was addressed, Roger Rawlings, with the local Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, implored to council to consider the ...
http://www.independentmail.com/news/2008/jul/21/will-there-be-prayer-clemson-council-meetings/

Grassley aides downplay report of GOP retribution
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
.. though he's drawn intense fire from Copeland and supporters who contend the senator is breaking down the wall of separation between church and state. ..
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080721/NEWS/80721023/-1/NEWS04

America needs Turkey to stay a secular state
Charleston Post Courier - Charleston,SC,USA
It is more than a little ironic that many in America, quick to defend a much less precise separation of church and state in the US Constitution, ...
http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/jul/23/america_needs_turkey_stay_secular_state48351/

Court undoes Christian scholarship curb
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
In arguments before the three- judge panel, Domenico said the ban was aimed at keeping church and state separate while protecting taxpayers from paying for ..
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_9976735

Editorial: McCain, Obama Tithe For America
CBS News - New York,NY,USA
But if the White House is the state and faith-based groups are a church, how does partnership equate to the "wall of separation" that leaders from Jefferson ...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/23/politics/uwire/main4288696.shtml

Rick Warren on his upcoming presidential forum
OneNewsNow - Tupelo,MS,USA
Warren says although he believes in the separation of church and state, he is not uncomfortable hosting the presidential forum because he does not believe ..
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=186784

Another courtroom victory for religious colleges
The Associated Press -
.. up having to pay for religious indoctrination," said Barry Lynn, executive director of the group Americans United for Separation of Church and State. ...
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jYoQs4cq4F0vCMpQDBkHyHGyDL0QD924E0F00

Baptist ministry on FLW responds to national critics
Waynesville Daily Guide - Waynesville,MO,USA
By Darrell Todd Maurina The national organization of Americans United for Separation of Church and State has asked the Army's inspector general to ...
http://www.waynesvilledailyguide.com/news/x477322638/Baptist-ministry-on-FLW-responds-to-national-critics

MISCELLANEOUS

It's not easy to 'own' gods
Times of India - India
LUDHIANA: Atheist or believer - no matter what you are, this is certainly going to catch your attention. An idol of Radha-Krishna has been sold for a cool ..
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Chandigarh/Its_not_easy_to_own_gods/articleshow/3254638.cms

At the Intersection of Synagogue and Boardwalk, a Feud

The New York Times - By Jennifer Steinhauer
LOS ANGELES — The only synagogue on the Venice Beach boardwalk has weathered 80 years' worth of oscillating economies, winos, shamans and aggressive panhandlers, disintegration of its own community and surf seekers on all manner of speeding wheels...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/us/20boardwalk.html?em&ex=1216699200&en=9a8dfc61b1eec7b3&ei=5087%0A

Peace and harmony breaks out between two of the `worst people in ...
Change of Subject - Chicago Tribune Blog - Chicago,IL,USA
Monique Davis (D-Chicago) and atheist activist Rob Sherman --- whose public squabbles in April earned them each a nomination as the "Worst Person in the ...
http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2008/07/peace-and-love.html

Isaac Asimov
guardian.co.uk - UK
"If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives, and not the pattern of ..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/09/isaacasimov

Woman Stabs Herself During Wiccan Ceremony
The Associated Press
LEBANON, Ind. - A woman accidentally stabbed herself in the foot with a 3-foot-long sword while performing a Wiccan good luck ritual at a cemetery in central Indiana...
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/25803777/

KC Atheist Will Care for Your Pets After Rapture
Pitch Weekly - Kansas City,MO,USA
A Kansas City atheist has a solution for your left behind pets. In this Craigslist ad, an unnamed atheist promises to feed, water and shelter Santa's Little ...
http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2008/07/kansas_city_atheist_will_care_for_your_pets_after_rapture.php

Christian Band Asks Atheist Guitarist to Step Down
BREATHEcast.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
By Josh Kimball [Christian Post Reporter] Christian metalcore band Haste the Day has asked guitarist Jason Barnes to step down after months of spiritual ...
http://wwwbreathecast.com/Christian.Music.News-Christian.Band.Asks.Atheist.Guitaristto.Step.Down/1_2349.htm

Choose your religion
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
Consumerism is on the chart, along with Atheism, and Psychoanalysis. Cut into the top wheel are six openings which are labeled: Description; ...
http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/civil-religion/general/2008/07/choose-your-religion/