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Go ahead and organize your life around atheism

Michael De Dora has written in a recent controversial piece that, in essence, questions the wisdom of "organizing [one's life] around atheism,...
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The New Atheism and the Great Divide - My talk to the Northern Virginia Ethical Society (audio)

On October 18, I gave an address to the Northern Virginia Ethical Society on the subject of the New Atheism and the divides within the atheist...
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Public expression of religion discussed by Atheist Alliance convention panel

A high-powered panel discussion at the opening of the Atheist Alliance International Convention in Burbank, California Friday raised important and...
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Secular Examiner heads to the Atheist Alliance International Convention

Picture it. Los Angeles. A swanky hotel positively overflowing with blasphemous infidels, turning their filthy noses up at the Almighty and...
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Obama picks Collins for NIH: A small defeat for rationality?

I know that he knows his way around a beaker and a double helix like nobody's business, but I can't help but be disappointed by President Obama's...
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Agreements reached in religious appeasement debate, but rifts still evident

Peace is being made in the ongoing blog-debate concerning the appearance of religious appeasement from science advocacy groups such as the National...
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Dialogue over appeasement of religion in science advocacy heats up, and a grand debate begins

PZ Myers comes not to bury the NCSE, but to praise it. And then bury it. A few days ago, biologist and author Jerry Coyne threw down the gauntlet...
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Heavyweights of science worry over religious appeasement by pro-evolution group

The NCSE's Eugenie Scott, whose accomodationist approach is in the cross-hairs of some unapologetic evolutionists and atheists. (Photo: Carrie...
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Richard Dawkins = William Jennings Bryan?

Here is a recent example of Darwin-as-atheists'-God nonsense, this time from Rick Wagner at the Grand Junction Sentinel. His overall thesis is a...
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Bill Maher and 'our silly gods'

For those who could stand the nearly four hour self-congratulatory torture-fest that was the 81st Academy Awards, you no doubt noted the appearance...
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