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Why Religion Should Be Confronted
Victor Stenger
October 31, 2010
Print: The Huffington Post
Physicist Victor Stenger’s opening remarks before the “Science and Religion: Confrontation or Accommodation” debate at the Conference of Free Inquiry and the Council for Secular Humanism in Los Angeles.
The Valley of Taboos
By Johann Hari
October 26, 2010
Print: Slate
A review of V.S. Naipaul’s book on Africa’s indigenous beliefs.
Book of the Dead: Scroll down and learn how to die like an Ancient Egyptian
Vanessa Thorpe
October 23, 2010
Print: The Guardian
The Book of the Dead guided Ancient Egyptians through death and on to the afterlife, as a forthcoming British Museum exhibition will show.
The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas
Jessica Holland
October 23, 2010
Print: The Guardian
This compendium of essays is the perfect godless curmudgeon’s stocking-filler, writes Jessica Holland.
Did Jack Conway go too far?
by Chris Cillizza
October 19, 2010
Print: The Washington Post
Political ads in America trade charges of impiety, as all candidates jockey to prove how religious they are.
“The Moral Landscape”: Why science should shape morality
By Katherine Don
October 18, 2010
Print: Salon
An interview with Sam Harris about his new book.
Atheists Debate How Pushy to Be
By MARK OPPENHEIMER
October 16, 2010
Print: New York Times
Some 370 atheists, humanists and other skeptics packed a ballroom in Los Angeles last weekend to debate the future of their movement.
An atheist presents God’s plan to win an election
Hemant Mehta
October 6, 2010
Print: The Washington Post
I’ve never run for public office, but I know exactly what I would need to do to get the votes of people too ignorant to base their judgment on any real, substantial issues.
I’d just tell them that God told me to run for office. He spoke to me. In a dream. Really.
Aiming to Learn as We Do, a Machine Teaches Itself
By STEVE LOHR
October 5, 2010
Print: New York Times
A team of computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon are working on a breakthrough in artificial intelligence by designing a program that teaches itself.
Vatican Aide Says Medicine Nobel Winner Opened `Important’ Human Chapter
By Flavia Krause-Jackson
October 4, 2010
Print: Bloomberg News
The Vatican’s head of the Pontifical Academy for Life grudgingly conceded that the winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, a pioneer of the test-tube baby, “inaugurated a new and important chapter in the field of human reproduction.”
