Archive for the ‘Atheism/Agnosticism’ Category
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe, Professor Stephen Hawking has said.
He had previously argued belief in a creator was not incompatible with science but in a new book, he concludes the Big Bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of ...
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Sunday, July 5th, 2009
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WSVN) -- Community residents are protesting a billboard they call offensive to Christians. Read whole story...
I find this billboard non-offensive and very careful in its language and I am saddened by the community reaction to it. The design of it is a bit corny. Why is it ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
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LONDON – London buses have God on their side — but not for long, if atheists have their way.
The sides of some of London's red buses will soon carry ads asserting there is "probably no God," as nonbelievers fight what they say is the preferential treatment given to religion in ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
"As more atheist-centered books and movies make their way to mainstream culture, two best-selling Christian apologists are encouraging churches to better equip their congregation to respond to what they call a more outspoken and "confident" atheism." I find the funniest part of this article to be: "The arguments are not ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
It began with a high-profile Wired article describing a "new band of intellectual brothers" in 2006 entitled The Church of the Non-believers. This article heralded Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Daniel Dennett as being the figureheads of a new mounting crusade against theism. These new renegade atheists, according ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
"We are all born atheists. There is no such thing as a Christian child or a Muslim child or a Buddhist child, just as there is no such thing as a Republican child or Democratic child. These designations are the result of indoctrination by culture."
Full Story...
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Saturday, February 26th, 2005
Okay, let's get something straight. Intelligent Design is not an "alternate theory." Nor is it even a remotely legitimate opposing view. Intelligent Design has been adequately refuted as a speculation that is not provable nor rational. It is not endorsed by any leading scientific institutions. It is a known fact ...
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Thursday, October 21st, 2004
The Bush Administration has decided that it will stand by its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah's flood rather than by geologic forces, according to internal documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
"The Park Service ignored a letter of protest signed ...
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Sunday, October 10th, 2004
Here's an article (you may need to login, but it's free) at the New York Times website with an overview/update on the medical prayer healing debate. Since a Columbia study in 2001, the prayer debate has been alive. But according to the article: "Three years later, after one of the ...
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Thursday, September 23rd, 2004
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal courts would be barred from striking the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag under a bill passed on Thursday by a House of Representatives split largely along party lines...Full story...
I can't believe this can actually pass in the House. Hopefully ...
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