JUST minutes after learning that a Cardiff student had removed a Jesus & Mo cartoon from his Facebook page after his school threatened to expel him, I learned that an Indonesian man, who used Facebook to declare the non-existence of God, could face jail. According to the BBC, civil servant Alexander Aan, 31, is now [...]
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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, [...]
FOR “some time” Kentucky astrophysicist and creationist nut-job Jason Lisle has been grappling with the “distant starlight problem”. This, he explains: Is the issue of how starlight from the most distant galaxies is able to reach earth within the biblical timescale. Although light is incredibly fast, the most distant galaxies are incredibly far away. So, [...]
RATHER belatedly I have just come across a book review in the New Scientist which not only rips into creationists and “intelligent design” proponents, but criticises John C Avise – author of Inside the Human Genome: A case for non-intelligent design – for attempting to reconcile evolution and religion. Avise is an evolutionary geneticist at [...]
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THE Templeton Prize, which we reported on earlier this week, has been awarded to Professor Francisco Ayala, who insists that that attacking religion and ridiculing believers forces people to choose between God and Darwin. He singled out Richard Dawkins for criticism. Richard Dawkins has been a friend for more than 20 years, but it is [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
