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, [...]
THE father of a Knox County, Tennessee, public school student has lost the second round of his battle to have the school board ban a high school biology textbook which he says is biased against Christians. Kurt Zimmerman demanded that the book be removed from the school after his son drew his attention to a [...]
GOOD news from Texas – the creationist nutter who heads the State Board of Education has been ousted. A vote in the Texas State Senate yesterday fell short of the two-thirds majority Don Mcleroy, a dentist and Sunday school teacher, needed to retain his position as head of an education board that has been described [...]
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THOSE nutters over at the Christian Legal Centre (CLC) and Comment on Reproductive Ethics (Core) are fuming over a High Court decision today refusing them permission to bring a test case against the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) Mrs Justice Dobbs, sitting at the High Court in London, ruled that the application for a [...]
GOSH! You learn something new every day. Last night we attended a talk given by British atheist and voluntary euthanasia campaigner Dr Michael Irwin, who detailed the background to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill likely to come into force next year. Dr Irwin, of the Secular Medical Forum, reminded a meeting of the Brighton [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
