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Sunday, 13 April 2008
Polygamy sect raids in Texas; the $2 billion civil suits against the Catholic church over child abuse in the USA; the collapse of the Peniel Church as its leader resigns admitting adultery; The BBC Radio 4 "Sunday" programme is a great deal more critical of religions than you might expect. Listen again here
 
Bishop blocks gay church blessing | Print |  Email
Sunday, 13 April 2008
A gay couple's church blessing has been blocked because the ceremony "looked too much like a wedding".
Paul Sewell, 41, and Andy Nicholson, 42 from Metheringham had planned a civil ceremony and then wanted a blessing in their local church in Dunston, but the Bishop of Lincoln said a parish church was not an appropriate venue, reports the BBC
 
Exploring a New Humanism | Print |  Email
Thursday, 10 April 2008
Harvard's Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein's story illuminates an aspect of U.S. culture that may be obscured by the "faith debates." He is passionate about articulating an atheist identity that is not driven by a stance against religion, but by positive ethical beliefs and actions. A podcast and transcript from Speaking of Faith on American Public Media
 
Dawkins warns of human extinction | Print |  Email
Thursday, 10 April 2008
GOD does not exist, people who believe the earth is 6000 years old are "loonies and idiots" and teaching children to fear the fires of hell is plain evil. Just a few of the contentious opinions put forward by outspoken atheist Professor Richard Dawkins to an 850-strong audience in Inverness on Wednesday 04 April, 2008. The lecture and discussion, organised by the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) Millennium Institute, has sparked lively debate, reports Catriona Ross in The Inverness Courier
 
Hitchens brothers debate the tough stuff: God, war | Print |  Email
Thursday, 10 April 2008
Saddam Hussein was bad. So is God. And they share common traits. So said a best-selling atheist author Thursday in a debate with his Christian brother in front of about 1,200 people in Fountain Street Church. Christopher Hitchens praised the war in Iraq, saying it "brought one of the great war criminals of the world to justice," writes Matt Vande Bunte in The Grand Rapids Press
 
Biologists Take Evolution Beyond Darwin — Way Beyond | Print |  Email
Thursday, 10 April 2008
Nearly 150 years after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, evolution has been widely accepted by scientists as the blueprint for the engine of life. But not every scientist thinks that evolution as it's now understood and applied is complete. They want to scale it up to the level of populations, even whole ecosystems. Moreover, they say evolution is intertwined with other dynamics that science is just starting to understand. in Wired Magazine
 
Richard Dawkins: 'Growth in creationist beliefs a problem for schools' | Print |  Email
Thursday, 10 April 2008
The eminent Darwinist said the rise of the belief, which states that the Earth did not evolve following the big bang but was instead created by God, raised a serious problem for science teachers. Prof Dawkins was speaking at a debate held as part of this year's 20th anniversary Edinburgh International Science Festival, reported in The Scotsman
 
In search of the God particle | Print |  Email
Thursday, 10 April 2008
It is not everyday that someone's name becomes inextricably linked with God. But it is not everyday that someone comes up with a theory that could help to unify the many disparate forces of the universe. All the more strange, then, for the man behind the sub-atomic "God particle" to be an unassuming grandfather living in modest retirement in one of the more sedate districts of Edinburgh, reports Steve Connor in The Independent
 
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