Wood flings the usual mud at atheists, as usual with no quotations, then gets to grips with Terry.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Mali: Women’s Rights Bill Blocked
Muslim groups have been protesting against the law ever since parliament adopted it in early August.
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Mali: Wives Must Obey Husbands
‘We’re not trying to make women slaves. The head of the family is the man, and everyone in the family has to obey him.’
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Irish Church Paying Price for Clerical Dominance
The Ryan report was horrendous; the effect on the morale and reputation of the church and Ireland, devastating.
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Belief in a God That Makes No Difference
There may not be any compelling reason to believe that such a being exists, but the question is intelligible.
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Nesrine Malik Finds Feminism Patronizing
Western feminists must learn to understand the burqa.
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Venezuela: Catholic Church Meddling in Politics
Venezuela’s bishops oppose new education law because it promotes secular education.
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Catholic Group Working to Repeal Blasphemy Law
In Pakistan, where Christians are a minority subject to persecution. In Ireland, on the other hand…
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Senator From Utah Writes Book on Mormonism
Asks four questions to test whether Book of Mormon is a fake. ‘Seriously, gold plates, Moroni?’
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Sebastian Faulks Not Totally Smitten With Koran
Has ‘courted controversy’ by saying so.
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Sebastian Faulks Says the Koran is Terrific
Really – he loves it – he read Karen Armstrong for his research – he wouldn’t dream of offending.
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Excerpt From Dawkins’s ‘Greatest Show on Earth’
With bizarro Times headline worthy of Glen Beck.
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Mediawatchwatch on Sebastian Faulks
Did Faulks cave in to threats, or is he merely offering a pre-emptive apology in advance of them?
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Quackometer on the Society of Homeopaths
Those studies they cite? Take a closer look.
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No Grand Bargain Between Evolution and Theism
It doesn’t follow that because organisms in nature have purposes, nature as a whole has a purpose.
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The Daughter Deficit
In China and India girls are more likely to be missing in richer areas than in poorer ones, in cities than in rural areas.
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Jerry Coyne on Robert Wright’s Pirouetting
If only scientists would ‘accept’ just a few tiny beliefs, everybody could get along.
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Alun Salt on the Politics of Accommodation
Van Houtan and Pimm do not argue that all the public should be treated as if they’re in the remedial class.
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NY Times Magazine on Global Women’s Rights
Why women’s rights are the cause of our time.
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Kristof and WuDunn on Unsubordinating Women
The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren’t the problem; they’re the solution.