A CRUEL ritual, said to date back some 800 years, involves ultra-Orthodox Jews swinging chickens above their heads to absolve them from their sins. The ghastly spectacle takes place to mark Yom Kippur – the Day of Atonement – and the birds are slaughtered afterwards. But now some concerned rabbis, according to this report, are [...]
AN evangelical scholar in the US has upset hard-line fundamentalists by pointing out the absurdity of the Old Testament’s account of how humanity sprang into being. Dennis Venema, a biologist at Trinity Western University, and a senior fellow at BioLogos Foundation – a Christian group that tries to reconcile faith and science – is reported [...]
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AND this one speaks volumes about the rapid growth of the recently launched Philippine Atheists and Agnostics Society (PATAS). At the end of April this year, we carried an exclusive interview with Levi Chui Monton, corporate secretary of PATAS, and have since kept in close touch. Founded to promote atheism, agnosticism, humanism, atheism, rational thinking, [...]
HOARSE and coughing, the Pope used a service in Rome to tell the faithful that humanity was not a random product of evolution. Ratzinger, according to this report, emphasised the Biblical account of creation in his Easter Vigil homily, saying it was wrong to think at some point: In some tiny corner of the cosmos [...]
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DR USAMA Hasan, Vice Chairman of the Masjid Madrasah al-Tawhid mosque in Leyton High Road has invoked the wrath of fundamentalist hotheads who want him dead for daring to suggest that Muslims need to accept the theory of evolution. According to this report, a lecture given recently by Dr Hasan was disrupted by protesters who [...]
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IN DUBLIN tomorrow a book rubbishing evolution will be launched – by Ireland’s Minister of State for Science, Technology and Enterprise, Conor Lenihan! The Origins of Specious Nonsense is the creation of John J May, who states: Charles Darwin and his modern ‘disciples’ – Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel C Dennet (sic), Christopher Hitchens et [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
