Fathom Media was revealed to be a subsidiary of Creation Ministries International.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Historians Misrepresented by Creationists
Phil Bell, CEO of Creationist Ministries UK, acknowledged that Fathom Media was established as a front company.
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Multitasking While Driving: the Documents
Over 250 pages of undisclosed material obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
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OB Chats With The New Statesman
Co-author of the new book Does God Hate Women? discusses patriarchy, the burka and capitalism.
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Sholto Byrnes Reviews Karen Armstrong
And takes a gratuitous swipe at ‘Does God Hate Women?’ while he’s at it.
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Jerry Coyne on NSF Funding and the Golden Age
There is no indication that there was a post-Sputnik “golden age of science” that has now vanished.
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Data on Risks of Distracted Driving Witheld
Federal agency hid hundreds of pages of research and warnings about the use of phones by drivers.
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Vatican Issues a Clarification
Anyone involved in an abortion is automatically excommunicated, even in the case of a raped 9-year-old.
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Vatican Does Not Intend to Deny the Girl Mercy
She should have been hugged! And only then forced to bear twins.
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Alain de Botton Reviews Karen Armstrong
Armstrong ‘wishes to remind us of the mystery of God’ – and to say how stupid atheists are, of course.
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Saudi Woman Given Asylum in UK
She had an ‘adulterous affair’ which would get her stoned to death in Saudi,
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Frank Rich: the Sotomayor Hearings as Theater
Clueless ancien-régime conservatives were feebly clinging to their last levers of power.
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Canadian Doctors Move on Right-to-die Issue
The Quebecoise electorate has been more progressive than voters in other Canadian provinces.
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Thought for the Day is Already Secular
Its god is made in the image of a BBC producer.
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Jerusalem Court Orders Mother’s Release
Thousands of Haredi residents rioted over the arrest of a woman accused of starving her child.
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Martin Amis on Pathological Fantasies
The mullahs now know that they are afloat on an ocean of illegitimacy.
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Laurie Taylor Talks to Terry Eagleton
‘I don’t want to deny that there are a lot of simplistic ways of thinking in religion.’ Oh yes you do!
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Kenan Malik Reviews Christopher Caldwell
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe is robustly argued. It is also fundamentally wrong.
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Paul Vallely on Eagleton and Armstrong
Hard to find words for how stupid this is.
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Science, Science Literacy and Religion
Michael Rosch is not persuaded by Unscientific America.