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News – Hey guys – I’ve added another sub-heading this week; ‘science’ – this will include any scientific research I’ve come accross. Enjoy!

• What’s the harm in religious fundamentalism?
• Maldives atheist who felt persecuted ‘hangs himself’ -Charles Haviland.
• Who’s in Jail?
• IQ2 Debate: Atheists Are Wrong
• Atheist group denied entry into Millersville Community Parade- Justin Vacula.
• Matt Slick defends “honor killing”: a woman’s hymen is worth more than her life- Martin Wagner.
• Pushing to outlaw abortion even in cases of rape- Russell Glasser.
• Open Thread: Living Closeted- JT Eberhard.
• We’re still winning- JT Eberhard.
• When in doubt, threaten- Ophelia Benson.
• Meanwhile, in Calabar- Ophelia Benson.
• Fallows on anti-Mormon “bigotry”- Ophelia Benson.
• High School Atheists Take Part in Anti-Bullying Campaign- Hermant Mehta.
• Atheist Students Raise Money for Secular Adoption Agency- Hermant Mehta.
• Jessica Ahlquist on the Front Page of the Providence Journal- Hermant Mehta.
  
• How Did the Protest of Pastor Mark Driscoll Go?- Hermant Mehta.
• University of Georgia Atheists Will Lead Protest Against Pastor Mark Driscoll- Hermant Mehta.
• Hate the Sin, Beat Up the Sinners- Hermant Mehta.
• Another Oregon Couple Found Guilty in Child’s Faith-Healing Death- Hermant Mehta.
• After a Complaint, One Christian Pastor’s Illegal Healing Methods Come to Light- Hermant Mehta.
• Church’s Illegal Fighting Match Results in Death- Hermant Mehta.
• Jews behaving badly- Jerry Coyne.
• Inter-Amish religious war!- Jerry Coyne.
• Where child sacrifice is a business- Chris Rodgers.
• More godless groups in the world- Ophelia Benson.
• Humanists, atheists drive for wider global impact- Robert Evans.
• More from “religion makes people good” dept- Ophelia Benson.
• Following court ruling, hundreds of Israelis
• Priest takes a holiday after rape claim story breaks
• to declare themselves ‘without religion’- Illan Lior.

Science

• Beauty in the eye of the beholder: The two blue opsins of blue butterflies and the opsin gene-driven evolution of sexually dimorphic eyes. Journal of Experimental Biology. 209 (16): 3079-3090
• Diversity and evolution of the gynoecium in Cuscuta (dodders, Convolvulaceae) in relation to their reproductive biology: two styles are better than one
• Practical cosmology and cosmological physics
• Learn from Your Mistakes – Or Don’t- Steven Novella.
• Race and Perception- Steven Novella.
• race perception 09-11- Steven Novella.
• Well, It Worked for Me! -Steven Novella.
• string cosmology
• Teenage kicks
• Traces of a Triassic Kraken? -P.Z Myers.
• Demonstrating an accident of evolution in a giraffe- P.Z Myers.
• The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine- P.Z Myers.
• Bob Enyart and Will Duffy, partners in idiocy- P.Z Myers.
• Faster than predicted- PZ Myers.
• I get email- PZ Myers.
• Roy Spencer Persecuted By Own Data- Barry Bickmore.
• Roy Spencer Responds With More Excuses- Barry Bickmore.
• Global Warming May Worsen Effects of El Niño, La Niña Events- Michael D. Lemonick.
• Ocean Heat Poised To Come Back And Haunt Us?- Rob Painting.
• A Post-Solyndra Snapshot of Solar Energy In America- Allyson Kenward.
• Living stromatolite found in Ireland!- Jerry Coyne.
• Live-bearing lizards- Jerry Coyne.
• Near-Perfect Young Dinosaur Fossil Found in Bavaria
• A creationist’s ‘scientific’ disproof of Darwin’s theory of evolution- Andrew Brown.
  

Theosophy

Atheism

• Is Mitt Romney a Cultist? -Robert M. Price.
• Why you should argue in public and private- Russell Glasser.
• Texas Freethought Convention / Atheist Alliance America Convention- Matt Dillahunty.
• Atheists as Vulcans without Machismo? An e-mail exchange…- Matt Dillahunty.
• Sitting Next to a Missionary- JT Eberhard.
• Is this the best Christian Apologists can do?- Jacob Fortin.
• No, We Can’t Have That- JT Eberhard.
• A Response to “Christianity is truth-ful” and criticism of Christians who ‘make up their own religion’- Justin Vacula.
• “Belief Intolerance”- Justin Vacula.
• Responding to “Atheists Tackle Simple Theology and Arguments”- Justin Vacula.
• Correspondence with a Theologian- Justin Vacula.
• Introductions: Matt Dillahunty- Matt Dillahunty.
• Be Honest, Even If They Call You A Dick- JT Eberhard.
• I Enjoy Philosophy, I Hate ‘Philosophers’- JT Eberhard.
• Let the facts about porn speak for themselves-Alan McKee.
• How religion does dirt on everything good (2)- Russell Blackford.
• Can Critics of “New Atheists” Please Read Some First?- Greta Christina.
• “YOU CAN’T PROVE A NEGATIVE”- Stephen Law.
• GOING NUCLEAR- Stephen Law.
• What is Secularism? Secularism is for everyone.- John Shook.
• Higher bullshitting- Ophelia Benson.
• Julian Baggini and the New Atheism Again- Eric MacDonald.
• Original Sin, the Fall of Man, and the History of Violence- Eric MacDonald.
• Faith and Evidence in John Haught’s “God and the New Atheism”- Eric MacDonald.
• List on Free Will and Determinism (Part One) and part 2 here. – John Danaher.

Theism

• The unbearable lightness of atheism- Scott Stephens, with my response here.
• Conditional Statements and God- Randy Everist.
• Did Darwin defeat God? Reconsidering God and evolution- Sarah Coakley.
• Paul’s Conversion: Evidence for the Truth of Christianity- Erik Manning.
• Contra Mundum: When Scientists Make Bad Ethicists- Matt Flannagan.
• ICBI Article 7- Nick Peters.
• Thermodynamics, the Past, and the Multiverse: Arguing about the Kalam Cosmological Argument- J.W Wartick.
• Beliefs and the Will- Randy Everist.