The widow of a North Hollywood rabbi says her husband only lent them to his assistant. Local Jewish court ruled in her favor; an appeal in Israel is also pending.

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Americans are turning their backs on conventional religion.

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Once we had evolved the necessary brain architecture, we could “do” religion, brain scans indicate.

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Brain scans back up the theory that more recent evolutionary changes to the human brain allowed the development of religion.

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The BBC’s Religious Affairs correspondent reports on the renewed interest in Islamic finance - and how to go about renouncing your baptism.

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US stem cell researchers will always meet with some disapproval – but at least they now have their president behind them.

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From Richard Dawkins to the atheist bus, critical thinking has made an unexpected return to popularity. Chris French, editor of the Skeptic magazine, wonders why

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Book Review:Losing My Religion
How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America—and Found Unexpected Peace
William Lobdell
Collins: 292 pp., $25.99

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String of sit-ins going on for more than four years at closed churches

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Religious groups have joined together to reject Lib Dem calls for faith schools to be banned from selecting children by religion.

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Removing faith schools’ rights to admit pupils on the basis of religion would be a perverse and unjust way of responding to demand for places religious leaders warned today.

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WHY do honeycombs have hexagonal cells? Why are the florets in a sunflower arranged in a double spiral? In medieval times, these questions would have been met with a simple answer. God established the heavens, setting “a compass on the face of the deep”, leaving evidence of His presence in all creation. Most scientists today would rather invoke Charles Darwin to explain these patterns as products of evolution.

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Andrew Marr explains why we should not turn Darwin into a deity.

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An Oregon man who alleges he was molested in the 1960s by a priest can pursue a civil lawsuit against the Holy See, a federal appeals court says.

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Broadcaster cites 1943 document found in Rome convent as evidence

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For the purposes of science God doesn’t exist. But for all practical purposes, that makes no difference

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Cardinal Levada: No conflict between evolution science and faith in God

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It’s right we come to terms with the fact that free will, just like the sense of a higher power, is an illusion

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Religion might not be the only reason people buy into creationism and intelligent design, psychological experiments suggest.

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