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Good Boy Scouts don’t need God
by Tom Krattenmaker
May 19, 2013
Print: USA Today
When will the Boy Scouts accept the non-religious?
To Life, Not Martyrdom
by Herb Silverman
May 19, 2013
Print: The Washington Post
The problem with the Catholic church’s fast track to sainthood called “martyrdom.”
Science and Religion Can’t Be Reconciled
by Sean Carroll
May 11, 2013
Print: Slate
Why Sean Carroll won’t take money from the Templeton Foundation.
Atheists: Let Your Conscience Be Your God
by Herb Silverman
May 11, 2013
Print: The Washington Post
Whether religious or secular, our universal goal should be to treat all our fellow human beings with respect and dignity.
Congressional Support For National Day of Reason
by Brian Magee
May 2, 2013
Print: National Day of Reason
Two members of Congress are offering encouragement to those taking part in National Day of Reason events on May 2.
Away with the fairies
by Richard Dawkins
April 23, 2013
Print: Richard Dawkins Foundation
What happens when you describe a religious believer as a nutter because he believes in a winged horse?
New Atheism should be able to criticise Islam without being accused of Islamophobia
by Andrew Zak Williams
April 20, 2013
Print: New Statesman
The atheist community is right to pursue rational, civilised debate, and should be able to do so without being tarred as bigots.
Godless in Boston mourn, too
by Greg Epstein
April 20, 2013
Print: CNN
America is less religious today than ever before, and Boston is home to one of the largest secular and Humanist communities in the world.
Skeptic Michael Shermer says science better than religion at determining morality
by Jen Gerson
March 25, 2013
Print: The National Post
Earlier this month, Shermer gave a lecture entitled The Moral Arc of Science: How Science Has Bent the Arc of the Moral Universe Toward Truth, Justice, Freedom, & Prosperity.
The Boy Scouts of America’s exclusions: the gay and godless
by Katherine Stewart
March 19, 2013
Print: The Guardian
The BSA’s new members’ survey reveals that its bias lies as much in privileging religious conviction as in anti-gay sentiment.
Physicist See Higgs Boson in New Particle, but More Study Is Needed
by Dennis Overbye
March 14, 2013
Print: The New York Times
Physicists at CERN said Thursday that the new particle discovered with enormous fanfare last summer definitely looks like the Higgs boson.
Humanism’s faith in reason represents our best hope
by AC Grayling
March 4, 2013
Print: The Guardian
Unlike religion, humanism’s code of conduct isn’t based on a one-size-fits-all philosophy.
Four dead in Bangladesh clashes over ‘atheist bloggers’
The Bangkok Post
February 23, 2013
Print: The Bangkok Post
Bangladesh police clashed with Islamists demanding the execution of bloggers they accuse of blasphemy, killing at least four people and injuring about 200
On Darwin Day, Promoting Scientific Thinking
by Rep. Rush Holt
February 12, 2013
Print: The Huffington Post
U.S. Congressman proposes that Feb 12 be recognized as Darwin Day as a reminder of the need to promote scientific thinking in our society.
President Obama, Please Call for a Second Giant Leap for Mankind
By Zack Kopplin
January 29, 2013
Print: The Huffington Post
Mr. President, we need another scientific revolution; we must have a second giant leap for Mankind.
Homeopathy is ‘rubbish’, says chief medical officer
By Rosa Silverman
January 24, 2013
Print: The Telegraph
Homeopathic remedies are “rubbish” and do not serve as anything more than placebos, England’s chief medical officer has claimed.
The Liberals’ War on Science
By Michael Shermer
January 24, 2013
Print: Scientific American
How politics distorts science on both ends of the spectrum.
In the U.S., Rise in Religious “Nones” Slows in 2012
Gallup
January 10, 2013
Print: Gallup
The percentage of American adults who have no explicit religious identification averaged 17.8% in 2012, up from 14.6% in 2008.
The Blessings of Atheism
by Susan Jacoby
January 6, 2013
Print: The New York Times
The widespread misapprehension that atheists believe in nothing positive is one of the main reasons secularly inclined Americans do not wield public influence commensurate with their numbers.
Why must the nation grieve with God?
By Lawrence Krauss
December 28, 2012
Print: CNN
Why must it be a natural expectation that any national tragedy will be accompanied by prayers?
