‘while encouraging students to keep an open mind and explore alternatives to evolution, it offers no scientific alternative’
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Not in Public School Science Classroom
‘We find that the secular purposes claimed by the board amount to a pretext for the board’s real purpose.’
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Gotta Have ‘Protected Space’ for Religion
It’s only feeble ideas that need all this protection.
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Scott McLemee on Voltaire Almighty
The great man lived into his 80s largely thanks to knowing just when to grab his luggage.
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Arguing Over Torture
David Luban on loading the dice, Jeremy Waldron on drawing the line, Michael Walzer on dirty hands.
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Ignatieff in Dubious Company Over Torture
With U.S. lawmakers banning abuse, where does Liberal stand, asks Haroon Siddiqui.
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Sands Shift Under the Case for Interventionism
And labels get confused: left, right, realist, internationalist, moral idealist, neoconservative…
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Secularists too Powerful? Where Would That Be?
What with ‘faith’ schools, vicars patrolling supermarkets, secularists banned from Thought for Day.
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Taliban Murder Teacher for Teaching Girls
‘He had received many warning letters from the Taliban to stop teaching, but he continued.’
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Nigerian Women Riot Over Bike-taxi Ban
Fight back.
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Trust in God or Jamie
God heads a creaking pantheon of authority figures, from political magi to celebrity hairdressers.
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Without God, People Will Worship Jamie
‘Scruffy Irish pop stars and smart chefs are the new moral arbitors.’
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Bush Wants Secularism in Iraq but not in US
Why should theocrats abroad listen when theocrats in US appear to be running the place?
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Turkey Complains of Pressure From EU
‘You can’t put one of the world’s best living novelists on trial and say this is just growing pains.’
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Good, Rational Orientalism May Have Last Laugh
When post-modernist fashions, with fuzzy terminologies and neo-colonial potentialities, have gone.
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Menaces to Free Speech
The gods of the state also continue to exact their sacrifices.
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School Ignores Equality Commission Ruling
Islamic College Amsterdam will continue to require woman teachers to cover heads.
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Iraqi Secularists Unite to Resist Islamism
Face uphill battle.
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Philip Roth Does Not Smile
‘Identity labels have nothing to do with how anyone actually experiences life.’
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Pamuk Trial Halted on First Day
Trials concerning freedom of thought should never happen in the first place and should not be prolonged.