His version of it anyway, which of course is the only orthodox one.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Science Shows Mecca is the Center of the Earth
The meeting in Qatar is part of a popular trend of seeking Koranic precedents for modern science.
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Mary Warnock on The Politics of Religion
It is essential to hold on to the fact that in this country we are not a theocracy, but a democracy.
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Religion a Threat to Rationality and Science?
Imperviousness to reason is the property that we should most fear in religion.
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Trying to Herd Atheists
In the larger war against supernaturalism, it doesn’t help to fraternize with the enemy.
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Milk Teeth Found at Haut de la Garenne
Officers have been searching four cellars referred to as ‘punishment rooms’ by alleged victims.
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Manipulation of Medical Research
Doctors often sign studies in medical journals that were actually written by pharmaceutical companies.
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Free Speech and Clash of Cultures
‘On the Media’ talks to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ian Buruma, Flemming Rose, Ibrahim El-Houdaiby.
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Life at Haut de la Garenne
‘It wasn’t a children’s home, it was a children’s prison.’
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Is Martha Nussbaum too Optimistic?
Conservative Xians ‘should look more closely at the ethical reasoning of people who are agnostics and atheists.’
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Andrew Anthony on David Edgar’s Defective Logic
Edgar is arguing is that unless you sign up to his vision of the left, you have by definition joined the ranks of the right.
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Ben Stein’s Way With the Truth
Expelled has some problems of its own with honest, open presentations of the facts about evolution.
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Reason Flunks ‘Expelled’
The Wedge document makes it crystal clear what comes first for IDers, and it isn’t evidence.
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Pope’s Gone Back Home
He prayed, he celebrated, he visited. So what?
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All Pope All the Time
More sycophantic coverage of Ratzinger. You’d think everyone in the world was a Catholic.
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Rowntree Survey: Religion as Social Evil
Many said religion divided society, fuelled intolerance and spawned irrational policies.
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Liberal Muslim Foundation Faces Hate Campaign
The Quilliam Foundation, backed by Muslim and non-Muslim scholars, will be launched on Tuesday.
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EU Backs Down on Equality
Irish religious schools can continue to refuse to employ atheist teachers.
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Pope Claims Theist Monopoly on True and Good
Says Nazi regime ‘banished God and thus became impervious to anything true and good.’
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Priests Brawl in Jerusalem Church
An Armenian priest forcibly ejected a Greek priest from an area near ‘the tomb of Jesus.’ Amen.