HALF of the respondents in a British poll do not accept the theory of evolution as accounting for the world’s existence, according to a new report – entitled Rescuing Darwin – by the religious thinktank Theos. Published on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth on February 12, the report reveals that only 25 per [...]
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A MEMBER of the British Humanist Association, Rupert Young, is challenging “the authority and exclusivity of the Church of England” by means of a petition calling on Westminster Abbey to mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. Says Young: Darwin was undoubtedly one of this country’s greatest scientists and one of the world’s most [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 