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Muslim students walking out of lectures on Darwinism because it 'clashes with the Koran'

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Mail - Nov. 28 (News) - Professors at University College London have expressed concern over the increasing number of biology students boycotting lectures on Darwinist theory citing their religious beliefs.

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Prehistoric Cave With a Hornet on the Wall

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Larry Rohter - Apr. 24 (News Report) - The director Werner Herzog remembers being about 12 years old when he saw, and was transfixed by, a picture of a horse on the cover of a book about Paleolithic art, displayed in the window of a bookstore in the isolated Bavarian village where he lived. Ever since, even as he was making films like “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” and “Nosferatu,” that image “has engaged me and haunted my mind,” he said. “It has never left me.” But it took more than 50 years after that first exposure to prehistoric cave art for Mr. Herzog to be able to act on his childhood fascination. In the spring of 2010 he was allowed to film in the Chauvet cave in southeastern France, where archaeologists have found exquisite wall paintings some 32,000 years old, the oldest ever discovered, and the result is an 90-minute documentary called “Cave of Forgotten Dreams.”

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Church approves confession app

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Feb. 09 (News) - The Catholic Church has approved an smart phone app that helps guide worshippers through confession. Patrick Leinen is the developer, and explains the concept on BBC Radio 5 live. ...

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Stem cell research can continue throughout appeal, court says

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Tribune - By David G. Savage - Sep. 29 (News) - Government-funded research on embryonic stem cells can continue, a U.S. appellate court said Tuesday, while lawyers appeal a judge's decision that found such research illegal.

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After 10 years in US, abortion pill still divisive

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By David Crary - Sep. 27 (News) - Ten years ago, after long and bitter debate, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved use of the abortion pill by American women. It is hailed as safe and effective, but new turmoil may lie ahead as the pill's proponents consider using telemedicine to make it more available.

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Christian Scientists push for health insurance that covers spiritual care

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Denver Post - By Electa Draper - Sep. 27 (News) - In her mind's eye, Sue Wood still clearly sees the young man burned head to toe in a grease fire. He had fled a hospital emergency room to seek help at Wide Horizon, a nonmedical religious nursing-care center. "He was in tough shape," said Wood, the center's director of nursing. The burn victim, in his early 20s, was a Christian Scientist. When ER doctors told him he faced six months of skin-graft surgeries, he turned to his religion.

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AA original manuscript reveals profound debate over religion

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Michelle Boorstein - Sep. 22 (News) - For millions of addicts around the world, Alcoholics Anonymous's basic text - informally known as the Big Book - is the Bible. And as they're about to find out, the Bible was edited.

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Senator pushes bill legalizing stem cell research

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Jim Abrams - Sep. 13 (News) - Sen. Arlen Specter on Monday initiated a drive to legalize federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, superseding conflicting court decisions that he said are slowing critical work to find cures for crippling diseases.

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Stem Cell Research-Funding Ban Suspended During U.S. Government's Appeal

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Bloomberg - By William McQuillen - Sep. 09 (News) - President Barack Obama’s administration can fund embryonic stem-cell research while it appeals a decision banning government support for any activity using cells taken from human embryos, an appeals court said. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington today put on hold a ruling by District Judge Royce Lamberth during its review of the ban.

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Stephen Hawking: God didn't create universe

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Richard Allen Greene - Sep. 04 (News) - "Spontaneous creation is the reason why there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," he writes in the excerpt.

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Has Stephen Hawking ended the God debate?

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Graham Farmello - Sep. 03 (News Report) - God did not create the universe, Stephen Hawking revealed yesterday. In the flurry of publicity preceding his new book, The Grand Design, to be published next week, he does some serious dissing of the Almighty, declaring him/her/it irrelevant. The point is, he says, that our universe followed inevitably from the laws of nature. But, we might ask, where did they come from? It is perhaps a bit rich for Hawking to make God redundant after granting him/her/it a celebrity cameo at the end of his multi-million selling A Brief History of Time. In his famous conclusion to the book, Hawking wrote that if scientists could find the most fundamental laws of nature "then we should know the mind of God". To be fair, he was writing metaphorically – we all know what he meant.

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Judge stops federal funding of embryonic stem cell research

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Aug. 24 (News Report) - A U.S. district judge granted a preliminary injunction Monday to stop federal funding of embryonic stem cell research that he said destroys embryos, ruling it went against the will of Congress.

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Atheists gather for a holiday they can believe in: Independence Day

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Monica Hesse - Jul. 05 (Special Report) - The trouble with most major holidays in the United States, if you're an atheist, is that it's difficult to ignore the "holy day" etymology, what with Christmas (obvious), Easter (obvious) and Thanksgiving (whom do you think most people are giving thanks to?). But not the Fourth of July. The Fourth is a little deity-free celebration stationed in the middle of summer for believers and nonbelievers alike. "Especially now, when atheists are vilified for not being patriotic enough," Maggie Ardiente says, balancing her paper plate of cookout food, "this is a really important holiday." So here we are in Lorton, at the year's largest social assembly of Washington area atheist groups, the fourth annual Independence Day Celebration -- or, as the e-mailed news release read, "Ungodly Leaders to Gather at Potomac Picnic."

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'Boobquake' Today: Can Cleavage Cause Earthquakes?

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Ki Mae Heussner - Apr. 26 (News) - It promises to be a "scientific experiment" like none you've ever seen. To test an Iranian cleric's claim that immodestly dressed women are responsible for earthquakes, tens of thousands of women around the country plan to show off an extra bit of skin

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Atheist convention's first secular success

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Age - By Barney Zwartz - Mar. 12 (News Report) - Even before it opened yesterday, the Global Atheist Convention - claimed as perhaps the biggest-ever atheist convention - had an impact, with the launch of a coalition of atheist groups in universities across Australia. About 100 students from 20

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Turkey: Archeological Dig Reshaping Human History

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek - By Patrick Symmes - Feb. 23 (News Report) - And under our feet, according to archeologist Klaus Schmidt, are the stones that mark the spot—the exact spot—where humans began that ascent

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How Christian Were the Founders?

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Russell Shorto - Feb. 12 (Special Report) - Conservative activists on the Texas Board of Education say that the authors of the Constitution intended the United States to be a Christian nation. And they want America’s history textbooks to say so, too.

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Christian Scientists seek reimbursement for prayers

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By William Wan - Nov. 22 (News Report) - Leaders of the Church of Christ, Scientist, are pushing a proposal that would help patients pay someone like Lewis for prayer by having insurers reimburse the $20 to $40 cost.

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Culture Wars Hit History Classes in Texas

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Stephanie Simon - Jul. 15 (News Report) - The curriculum culture wars have taken a new twist, with a brewing controversy in Texas about how much of the Bible belongs in American history.

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Homosexual behaviour widespread in animals according to new study - Telegraph

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent - Jun. 18 (News Report) - The pairing of same sex couples had previously been observed in more than 1,000 species including penguins, dolphins and primates. However, in the latest study the authors claim the phenomenon is not only widespread but part of a necessary biological adaptation for the survival of the species.

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Of trust and science

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Stephanie Desmon - Apr. 05 (News Report) - On a recent morning they knocked on Mary Ann Stoltzfus' door, the research nurse and her Amish helper, just as they have on so many doors over the years. They didn't call ahead - most Amish don't have telephones. They tracked down Stoltzfus the old-fashioned way: They asked her mother-in-law for the address when they ran into her. There were consent forms to sign, nosy medical questions to ask. The pair turned Stoltzfus' kitchen into a makeshift doctor's office, where nurse Theresa Roomet drew five vials of blood as the 40-year-old mother of six rested her elbow on the lacy tablecloth.

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Obama Aims to Shield Science From Politics

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Rob Stein - Mar. 09 (News Report) - the president believes that it is particularly important to sign this memorandum so that we can put science and technology back at the heart of pursuing a broad range of national goals.

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Born believers: How your brain creates God

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Scientist - By Michael Brooks - Mar. 04 (Special Report) - That's not to say that the human brain has a "god module" in the same way that it has a language module that evolved specifically for acquiring language. Rather, some of the unique cognitive capacities that have made us so successful as a species also work together to create a tendency for supernatural thinking. "There's now a lot of evidence that some of the foundations for our religious beliefs are hard-wired," says Bloom.

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The Biology of Belief

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Time - By Jeffrey Kluger - Feb. 12 (Special Report) - Most folks probably couldn't locate their parietal lobe with a map and a compass. For the record, it's at the top of your head — aft of the frontal lobe, fore of the occipital lobe, north of the temporal lobe. What makes the parietal lobe special is not where it lives but what it does — particularly concerning matters of faith. If you've ever prayed so hard that you've lost all sense of a larger world outside yourself, that's your parietal lobe at work. If you've ever meditated so deeply that you'd swear the very boundaries of your body had dissolved, that's your parietal too. There are other regions responsible for making your brain the spiritual amusement park it can be: your thalamus plays a role, as do your frontal lobes. But it's your parietal lobe — a central mass of tissue that processes sensory input — that may have the most transporting effect.

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Spirituality Spot Found in Brain - Yahoo! News

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Yahoo! News - By Robin Nixon - Dec. 24 (News Report) - The area in question - the right parietal lobe - is responsible for defining "Me," said researcher Brick Johnstone of Missouri University. It generates self-criticism, he said, and guides us through physical and social terrains by constantly updating our self-knowledge: my hand, my cocktail, my witty conversation skills, my new love interest ...

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