On his Templeton ‘Fellowship.’
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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Fox News Accuses Obama of Favoring Atheists
Sean Hannity claims religious leaders have not been invited to the White House. Oh please.
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Fundamentalists Pitch Fit at Atheists in White House
‘The fact that this meeting is happening at all is an affront to the vast majority of people of all faiths.’
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Allen Esterson on Alana Cash on Mileva Marić
Evidence lacking, evidence pointing the other way, evidence twisted then twisted again.
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Russell Blackford on Stanley Fish
Fish thinks the classical liberal tradition of Locke, Mill, and Rawls leads to an impoverishment of politics.
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Simon Singh and the Silencing of the Scientists
‘It is what is not published or has to be omitted because of a lawyer’s letter,’ notes Evan Harris.
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A Festering Problem in Internet Culture
Anonymous flaming. Richard Dawkins has had enough of it, and he’s not the only one.
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Chris Mooney is Named a Templeton Fellow [pdf]
What a surprise!
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Senior Saudi Cleric Orders Killing of Muslims Who
Who allow the sexes to mix freely in the workplace or in educational institutions.
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‘Saving the Sacred in a Secular Age’ Conference
Templeton Foundation co-sponsors conference presenting ‘religious responses to contemporary secularism.’
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Timothy Egan on the Missionary Impulse
Laura Silsby owed her former employees unpaid wages, so she thought she would be useful in Haiti.
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Rushdie is Writing a Book on the Fatwa
What it’s like to have theocrats in charge of your life.
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Intelligent People Have Evolutionarily Novel Values
Intelligence does not correlate with values old enough to have been shaped by evolution.
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Pregnant Nicaraguan Woman Denied Treatment
For metastatic cancer. If she wanted cancer treatment, she shouldn’t have gotten pregnant!
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The Freethinker Talks to A C Grayling
About life the universe and everything.
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Stanley Fish Has Read Another Book
This one by Steven Smith, who says there are no secular reasons. Fish is impressed.
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Francis Collins ‘Proves the Rationality of Faith’
And he does it once and for all, at that.
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No Anti-Hate Banners for Wyoming!
Not if they include no hate for gay people. All very well to oppose hate, but there is a limit.
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Pope Should Come Clean About Magdalenes
The church that revered Mary the Mother of God, yet treated all mortal women as sinners and whores.
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Religious Schools Allowed to Teach Nonsense
There’s no subject other than sex that schools can teach with their own version of the truth.