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Isn’t Australian religiosity rather unobtrusive and undemanding? Actually, no.

Science and religion overlap whenever religion makes truth claims about the world.  When that happens, religion has a long track record of being wrong.

Children from Blackawton Primary School found that bumblebees can learn which flowers to forage from with more flexibility than anyone had thought.

It’s been a marvellous year for bullshit.

Atheists are called offensive, intolerant, disrespectful, extremist, hostile, confrontational and generally horrible, just for existing.

The Catholic church insists that a “Catholic” hospital must let a woman die rather than end her pregnancy.

Condoms may not be used to avoid an unwanted pregnancy. No no no no no no. Women must get pregnant whether they want to or not.

Says society considers child porn “normal.” Survivors of priestly child-rape react with fury.

James Alcock critiqued Bem’s article “Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect.”

India’s censorship laws have allowed extremist Hindus to compete with extremist Muslims in tit-for-tat censorship campaigns.

One frequent outcome of very early marriage for girls.

“We must arm ourselves against the secularists, the nihilists, the humanists, and the liberals.”

In the New Humanist.

“Is she correct in suggesting that, au fond, the essence of the main religions boils down to compassion?” No.

It’s the anniversary of the Dover decision, so here is this year’s testimony from 15 citizens of Louisiana who spoke up for science, and won.

She was taken to a hospital with severe injuries a week after the beating, and died a month later.

Was it really an accident that documents concerning allegations of abuse against 10 priests were not passed to the Ferns inquiry?

Nicholas Windsor calls abortion “the single most grievous moral deficit in contemporary life.”

Its constitution says that “the state shall be based upon belief in the one, supreme God.”