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Lutheran camp plans 'creation-science' 'learning center'
Source: inforum.com

"There are 64 environmental learning centers that are run by the state of Minnesota or the federal government. You couldn't teach creation science at any one of those," said Bill Schultz, who heads planning and resource development at Lutheran Island Camp.

Godless Billboard Moved After Threats
Source: wcpo.com

In the wake of multiple, significant threats, the downtown billboard that says "Don't Believe In God? You are not alone" came down early Thursday morning.

Ohio: Billboards put up for nonbelievers
Source: The Columbus Dispatch

Ohio's three largest cities are home to new chapters of the Coalition of Reason.

Driver Forces Passengers To Pray On MARTA Bus
Source: wsbtv.com

A MARTA bus driver is on suspension following allegations that he forced passengers to pray before allowing them to exit the bus.

Melbourne Catholic Priests Warned To Ignore Letter On Child Abuse
Source: theage.com.au

CATHOLIC Archbishop Denis Hart has sent a letter to every Melbourne parish warning priests not to read to congregations a letter from a woman who says she was procured by nuns so a priest could rape her when she was a child.

Say what you want, hate-crimes bill protects free speech
Source: firstamendmentcenter.org

Once [the new Hate Crimes legislation] becomes law, the Department of Justice will have broader authority to investigate and prosecute violent crimes "motivated by prejudice based on the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gen …

A Halloween Book Burning: Only God's Word Will Survive
Source: blog.seattlepi.com

Come to our Halloween book burning. We are burning Satan's bibles like the NIV, RSV, NKJV, TLB, NASB, NEV, NRSV, ASV, NWT, Good News for Modern Man, The Evidence Bible, The Message Bible, The Green Bible, ect.

Marc Rubio: Creationist Ignoramus Running for Florida Senate
Source: floridabaptistwitness.com

Asked if the legislature would be open to academic freedom legislation, Rubio told the Witness, "I think so. Sure. Well, I think the Florida House would. I can't speak for the Senate."

Tennis Without a Net: The Emptiness of the Supernatural Hypothesis -- review of The Recalcitrant Imago Dei Human Persons and the Failure of Naturalism by J.P. Moreland
Source: naturalism.org

Supernatural beliefs about mind, morality and the self are losing plausibility as naturalistic explanations gain traction. In response, supernaturalists argue that gaps in these explanations are evidence for the failure of naturalism.

Man vs. God
Source: Wall Street Journal

We commissioned Karen Armstrong and Richard Dawkins to respond independently to the question "Where does evolution leave God?" Neither knew what the other would say. Here are the results.

Freethought Gets Aboard 75+ San Francisco Buses
Source: ffrf.org

The Madison, Wis.-based association, representing nearly 14,000 nonbelievers nationwide and more than 2,000 in California, is unveiling 75 "king" exterior signs with the messages: "Imagine No Religion" and Mark Twain's "Faith is believing what you know ain't so." Bo …

Clergy Hits On 1 in 33 Women Churchgoers
Source: The Washington Post

One in every 33 women who attend worship services regularly has been the target of sexual advances by a religious leader, a survey released Wednesday says.

Another 'Faith-Healing' Case of Negligence. Teen Dies of Ruptured Appendix While Wishful Parents Stand By
Source: wenatcheeworld.com

The day his son died, Greg Swezey told sheriff's investigators he knew Zakk would die 10 or 15 minutes before the teenager passed away.

Court strikes down Kentucky requirement to credit God for state's safety
Source: The Louisville Courier-Journal

In an 18-page order, Judge Thomas Wingate said the General Assembly created an official government position when it passed a law requiring the office to acknowledge "the dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the Commonwealth."

Video - Sam Harris on Real Time with Bill Maher
Source: YouTube

Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason and Letter to a Christian Nation.

The 4 Yorkshire Ex Believers
Source: crispian-jago.blogspot.com

The Scene: Four well-dressed men are sitting together at a vacation resort. 'Farewell to Thee' is played in the background on Hawaiian guitar. EX-JEWISH YORKSHIREMAN: Aye, very passable, that, very passable book on gene centric evolution.

The Pope vs. American Nuns
Source: Politics Daily

feminist theologian Mary E. Hunt writes in Religion Dispatches that the Vatican is investigating the Church's U.S. sisters:

Crist Defends Florida from Hurricanes with Prayers
Source: St. Petersburg Times > Local News

Could it be divine intervention that's kept Florida safe from hurricanes since Gov. Charlie Crist took office? Crist told a group of real estate agents Friday that he's had prayer notes placed in the Western Wall in Jerusalem each year and no major storms have hit Florida.

Commission Blocks Use of Bible as Textbook in Idaho School
Source: idahopress.com

The Idaho Public Charter School Commission told the Nampa Classical Academy today it can't use the Bible as a instructional text.

Dumbass Quote of the Day -- Cal Thomas
Source: The Washington Times

The secular left claims we are evolutionary accidents who managed to crawl out of the slime and by "natural selection" stand erect and over millions of years outsmart our ancestors, the apes. If that is your belief, then you probably think health care should be rationed.

Killing witches in Africa in the name of Jesus
Source: gullibilityisbadforyou.blogspot.com

Horrifying video about how "good" Christians in Africa kill and maim villagers who they believe to be witches.

Flying rabbis fight swine flu
Source: BBC News

A group of rabbis and Jewish mystics has taken to the skies over Israel, praying and blowing ceremonial horns in a plane to ward off swine flu. About 50 religious leaders circled over the country on Monday, chanting prayers and blowing horns, called shofars.

Massimo Pigliucci on Carl Sagan's 'The Variety of Scientific Experience'
Source: rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com

I finally got around to reading Carl Sagan's The Variety of Scientific Experience, a volume edited by his wife, Ann Druyan, and based on a series of Gifford Lectures on Natural Theology that Carl delivered in 1985 at the University of Glasgow.

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