Month: April 2010

Enlightenment 2.0 makes for a rather toothless, muddled kind of liberation.

‘There is no serious scientific doubt that evolution occurred or that natural selection is a major mechanism in its occurrence.’

Sexual behavior may compete with the time and resources required for other goals.

He has to reduce science to just another faith in order to salvage the “reasonableness” of religious belief.

Another demonstration that atheism is simply not permissible.

‘Historians are always making up figures,’ said Lyndall Ryan. Oh really?

Delegates from countries like Bangladesh, Iran, India and Sri Lanka – which have similar female suicide rates – discussed the problem at a conference in Afghanistan in November 2006.

Driven to desperation by forced marriages and abusive husbands, more and more are seeking release through self-immolation.

His book gives advice on wife-beating. Not too hard, not on the tender bits; do it right.

Islamic officials seized her 15-month-old daughter from her Hindu husband, Suresh Veerappan, last month and handed the child to Revathi’s Muslim mother.

Subjecting Hindu women to Sharia courts is not justice.

Government and military officials are suspected of plotting, ordering, or carrying out more than a quarter of journalist murders over the past 15 years, CPJ’s analysis shows.

Just look how she dresses, the bridge of her nose visible for all the world to see.’

It is never permitted to terminate the gestation of an anencephalic child as the means of avoiding psychological or physical risks to the mother.

TV is popular culture, the working class likes it, so put down that book.

Is It Wrong Everywhere, Always, and for Anyone to Believe Anything on Insufficient Evidence?

A shipowner was about to send to sea an emigrant-ship.

Extracts from Humanist Philosophers’ Group pamphlet.

Ibn Warraq on a one-eyed view of the relationship between the Arab and Western worlds.

‘Today, the open society is challenged by Islamism’