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Category: Latest News
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
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Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
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Mano Singham on the origins of religion
It is not just humans that base their behavior on imputing meaning to meaningless correlations.
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Iran does pay attention to global outrage
It is not entirely proud of stoning.
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Survey finds women are unsafe in Delhi
“Women in the national capital feel unsafe in many public spaces, and at all times of the day and night.”
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Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani will not be stoned
But she could still be executed.
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Belgium: police question cardinal for ten hours
Lawyers for the cardinal argue that the raid last month “compromises the inviolability of the Vatican.” The what?
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Theocracy is not progressive
Yet there’s a large part of the Left that fails to understand that.
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Oh sharia is not that bad
Guy worries that the campaign against sharia could make Muslims feel even more marginalised by mainstream society.
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Jerry Coyne on Southern Baptist accommodationism
It’s worth remembering that many believers and theologians don’t agree that science and religion are compatible.
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Chris Mooney apologizes, again
Just kidding. Again.
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EU urges Iran to halt executions
Foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton urged Iran to stop the execution of three people including Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani.
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Salil Tripathi on V S Naipaul
Waiving the rules only for the Lord and Lady from Wiltshire will reinforce the feudal India that Naipaul apparently despises.
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Dumbing ourselves down
CNN said Obama’s speech wasn’t one of his best, because it wasn’t pitched low enough.
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Chris Mooney apologizes
Just kidding.
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PZ on the sock puppet and the other sock puppet
And Chris Mooney, and what he owes a lot of people.
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Maryam Namazie: what isn’t wrong with sharia?
Rights, justice, inclusion, equality and respect are for people, not for beliefs and parallel legal systems.
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The problem of warning coloration
How does it evolve, when the first mutant individual that was toxic but had a new, bright color would call attention to itself?
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More BioLogos science
Just as we can maintain the created order is God’s good creation warped by the fall, so we can maintain that Scripture is both beautiful and broken.
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Oregon “faith healing” parents must surrender child
This case is unusual, as the court has intervened before the death of the child due to neglect.
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Hitchens baffles the godly – again
Naturally it isn’t easy for Christians to come straight out and say “serves you right,” but they do their best.