Jerry Coyne reads Darrell Falk of BioLogos, Mooney and Kirshenbaum, and Russell Blackford.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Russell Blackford on Demonization of Atheists
We are presented as vicious and violent rather than as reasonable people with a role to play in public debate.
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Gambia: State Witch-hunters Grab Villagers
1300 people were seized and made to drink poison; some died, others spent days racked with pain.
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Journalists Caught Between Govt and Taliban
Journalists in Afghanistan face increasing threats and attacks from government officials and the Taleban.
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NZ Child Killed in ‘Curse Lifting Ceremony’
People picked at the demons they saw in her eyes; water was forced into her mouth to flush out demons.
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Bryan Appleyard Reviews The Evolution of God
Takes a few kicks at ‘the absurd rhetoric of militant atheism’ while he’s at it.
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Taslima Nasreen Will Not Apologize…
‘for whatever I have written about the fundamentalists. I am willing to risk my life for that and continue my legitimate fight till the day I die.’
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Indian Muslim Groups Protest Nasreen Visa
Claim Nasreen committed blasphemy through her writings and hurt feelings of Muslims across the world.
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Afghanistan: Taliban Reaches Out to Voters
Promising to chop off their fingers if they vote.
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Afghanistan Passes Patriarchal Shia Law
Law permits men to starve wives who refuse sex, requires women to get permission from their husbands to work.
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How Dare You Protest Sexual Segregation?
Especially at a wedding! You can’t have women mixing with men at weddings. Duh.
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Youngest Adults Are the Least Creationist.
Even religious youth are less Creationist than older age cohorts.
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Confronting Tehran’s Vicious Misogyny
Tarek Fatah notes not even the Saudis have used rape as a tool of subjugation as the ayatollahs have.
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Ottawa Should Do More About Maziar Bahari
The Canadian journalist is one of many charged with inciting a ‘velvet revolution.’
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Free Maziar Bahari
Canadian/Iranian filmmaker and Newsweek correspondent detained in Iran since June 21.
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India: 3 People Killed for ‘Witchcraft’
Family members Karmi, 58 and Rahesh, 24 tried to save Munda, 65, but villagers killed them all.
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Akbar Ganji: Open Letter to Ban Ki-moon
An appeal to heed the widespread protests of the Iranian people.
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Jason Rosenhouse on Scapegoating
Christianity and theism tend to be opposed to freedom of thought.
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Greg Fish on Losing Touch With the Real World
Are people who think science is a gateway to atheism going to change their minds if you sweet talk them?
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Flying Rabbis Fight Swine Flu
A group of rabbis and mystics circled Israel in a plane, praying and blowing horns to ward off H1N1.