Appiah argues that moral and religious disagreement between cultures is overstated.
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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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Study Finds no God Spot in Brain
Nuns’ brains light up here there and everywhere.
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S Africa’s Health Minister Asks ‘Whose science?’
Polio in Nigeria, AIDS in South Africa, clean needles in the US, MMR in north London.
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Ibn Warraq on Islam
‘While the Koran is open to some re-interpretation, it is not infinitely flexible.’
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Olivier Roy on Islamic Evangelism
Islamic revival shares the dogmatism, communitarianism, scripturalism of US evangelist movements.
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Salman Rushdie Talks to Spiegel
Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals.
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Girl Abducted by Father and Sister
Relatives fear abducted girl has been taken to Pakistan for an ‘arranged’ marriage.
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Polygamist Busted
On the lam since being charged for allegedly arranging marriages between minors and older men.
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Sam Harris on Francis Collins’s Goddy Book
If the beauty of nature can mean that Jesus really is the son of God, then anything can mean anything.
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Meet the Bish
The Bishop of Rockford sounds like a scary guy.
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The Bishop on What Defiles Our Human Nature
‘The toleration of sexual perversions among inverts, the killing of the elderly, radical feminism.’
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Empiricism is a Good Thing
Political discussions all have a policy landscape that is shaped by our common knowledge.
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Karen Armstrong on Reconciling Contradiction
The religious claim ‘there is coherence in the apparent contradictions of their sacred texts.’
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Julian Baggini: Teach Children to Question Religion
‘You’re taught what people of different faiths do, but it is considered disrespectful to question if they are right to do it.’
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Hume’s Battle With Fanatics Not Won Yet
Is George W Bush switching off the light that David Hume switched on?
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Vatican to Discuss Evolution
Pope said in inaugural sermon; ‘We are not the accidental product, without meaning, of evolution.’
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Director of Vatican Observatory Replaced
George Coyne said ID isn’t science. Naughty.
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The Misery of Coerced Marriage in Indonesia
‘In many communities traditions and religious leaders are more respected than national legislation.’
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Taliban Killing Clerics Loyal to Government
Teachers, judges, aid workers, landmine removal specialists have also been killed.
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Is This What is Meant by Community Cohesion?
‘The new dividing line in Tower Hamlets is no longer skin colour but religion.’