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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.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date.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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A Bad Earthquake and a Good God?
No. [link fixed]
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Maia Caron Interviews OB
On religion and women, compliance and fear, misogyny and habit.
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Religion’s Role in California’s Prop 8
Experts said religion has been used to justify discrimination against African Americans, women and gays.
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Christian-Muslim Riots Spread in Nigeria
As street clashes broke out in Pankshin and Mangu, one report said 464 people had died in Jos.
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A Jump Too Many
From contempt for philosophy to contempt for the idea that we should strive to have beliefs that make sense.
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A Visit to the Creation Museum
There’s a room that has all the stuff God made on each day; the exhibit looks like holiday photographs.
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Fresh Air on 36 Arguments for the Existence of God
Part academic farce, part metaphysical romance, all novel of ideas.
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Bowling for Atheists: Donations Pour In
People give for many reasons; the more reasons, the more giving.
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Separation of Church and Medicine
The religious ideologies that permeate BU’s academic policies may harm scientific progress at BCM.
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Sean Carroll: The Truth Still Matters
“X is true” and “People exist who believe X is true” are not actually the same statement.
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Catholic Reveals Defective Moral Sense
‘Why is other human life worth anything if there is no God?’
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Clerics Demand More Time and Deference on TV
It’s all gardening and natural history instead of God! It’s an outrage!
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Egypt: No Sex Before Marriage
So what you do is, you secretly say you’re married. Problem solved.
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Russell Blackford on ‘The Evolution of God’
There is no phenomenon crying out for a deeper explanation that involves purpose or design or divinity.
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Laurie Taylor on the Church’s Way With Children
It happened to him and to his best friend. The priests made it the child’s fault.
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OSCE: Turkey’s Internet Law Should Be Reformed
‘At present, 3,700 Internet sites are blocked in Turkey, including YouTube, GeoCities, and Google sites.’
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Joe Hoffmann Says ‘Thanks, God’
The only way to show you how we really feel is to rebuild the churches and get people back on their knees, where they belong.
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Clare Sambrook on Children in Detention Centres
‘While the Government misrepresents the evidence, children’s suffering goes on.’
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Secularists as Dogmatic and Even More Strident
Says the archish of Westminster sweetly. Also the Irish mess is v good, reminds us we are sinners.