Local survey in Turkey finds 37% think so.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Behe Has Own Special Definition of ‘Theory’
Under which, he concedes, astrology would be a scientific theory.
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Florida, Where The Living Is Contradictory
Jeb embraces biotech and hires a creationist to run the school system.
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Edward Larson on Why Evolution is Threatening
What sort of God would create living things through a hateful struggle for existence?
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Lawsuit Over Hijab Requirement
Hijabs banned in Tunisia, required by The Islamic College in Amsterdam.
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Orhan Pamuk Closer to ‘Them’ Than to ‘Us’
Pamuk’s human, democratic attitude not approved by nationalist front in Turkey.
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Orhan Pamuk Denies ‘Genocide’ Claim
Did not say: we Turks killed this many Armenians; did not use the word ‘genocide’.
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Top Ten Books on Shelley and His Time
Holmes, Thompson, Foot, Peacock, Trelawny, Bloom – and a sailing manual.
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Simon Callow on Why Ibsen Matters
“Ibsen the fanatical sceptic,” wrote Strindberg. “So repellent, so attractive.”
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Lawsuit Against Educational Website on Evolution
Claims Berkeley site’s disagreement with religious interpretations violates First Amendment.
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Pro and Anti Blogging Debate Reaches Library
Is blogging a legitimate dimension of mass media, or the death of all standards and accountability?
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Archbishop Whinges About Atheists
Defended religious philosophies as kind of glue.
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Teacher and Muslim School Disagree Over Hijab
Equality commission to rule whether school was wrong to demand she cover her head to work there.
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China Cancels Official Japanese Visit
Apparently in protest at Prime Minister’s attending a controversial war shrine.
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David Hirsh ‘Against the Academic Intifada’
Worrying about the connections between anti-imperialism, anti-Semitism, and hostility to Israel.
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The Trouble With Hypotheticals
Thought experiments are fine and useful – until one gets you in trouble.
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A Book That Gives You Furiously to Think
Sartre and Beauvoir had ‘complicated attitudes’ to certain kinds of truth.
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Shashi Tharoor Reviews Amartya Sen
Economist who is also sociologist, historian, political analyst, moral philosopher.
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Cultural Competence
Abject refusal to articulate or defend ideas that might make certain protected groups uncomfortable
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A S Byatt on Self-Portraits
Iris Murdoch believed Rembrandt’s self-portraits were a philosophic attempt on the truth.