Apologetics
Which countries have the highest proportion of atheists?
Based on a careful assessment of the most recent survey data available, we find that somewhere between 500,000,000 and 750,000,000 humans currently do not believe in God. Such figures render any suggestion that theism is innate or neurologically based untenable. The nations with the highest degrees of organic atheism (atheism which is not state-enforced through […]
Muslim party seeks Islamic law for Australians
Patricia Karvelas September 06, 2005 THE leader of the nation’s first Muslim political party says all Australians should be living under Islamic law dictated by the Koran. The Best Party of Allah in Australia applied for registration in the ACT yesterday, claiming to provide a political voice for Muslims. Founder Kurt Kennedy, a Vietnamese-born Muslim […]
Religion & Ethics Australia Digest [51]
Religion & Ethics Australia Digest A weekly public affairs review from the Centre for Christian Ethics, Morling College No. 051, 23-29 Sep 2005 ² edited by Rod Benson News & opinion Aboriginal & indigenous affairs The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission plans to intervene in a case in which a judge gave a short […]
Intelligent Design Case
Lawyers fire opening shots in Intelligent Design case a.. 14:12 27 September 2005 b.. NewScientist.com news service c.. Celeste Biever, Dover, Pennsylvania The opening shots were fired on Monday in the first court trial to scrutinise the Intelligent Design movement. ID proposes that life is so complex it cannot have emerged without the guidance of […]
Reckoning with the God Squad
Fundamentalist bullies cannot be appeased. they must be confronted. By Bill Moyers September 24, 2005 At the Central Baptist Church in Marshall, Texas, where I was baptized in the faith, we believed in a free church in a free state. I still do. My spiritual forbears did not take kindly to living under theocrats who […]
Societies worse off ‘when they have God on their side’
A Frightening claim: Societies worse off ‘when they have God on their side’ The (London) Times September 27, 2005 Societies worse off ‘when they have God on their side’ By Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent RELIGIOUS belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research […]
Non-sex genes ‘link to gay trait’
Non-sex genes ‘link to gay trait’ Multiple genes – and not just the sex chromosomes – are important in sexual orientation, say US scientists. A University of Illinois team, which has screened the entire human genome, say there is no one ‘gay’ gene. Writing in the journal Human Genetics, they said environmental factors are also […]
Men on TV
Yeah! I’ve noticed that on TV a LOT in the past 10 years. I can’t think of one single program — sitcom or otherwise – that showed the male in a positive light unless he was wearing black with a white band around his neck. “Everybody Loves Raymond” is about a guy who “never gets […]
Choosing Poverty
Jesus and the Redistribution of Capital Andre Trocme Excerpted from Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution, available FREE in e-book format. According to the Torah, theyear of Jubilee was to be celebrated every seventh Sabbath of years (seven times seven). Just as the week ended with a day of release called the Sabbath and a week […]
Anglicans and Muslims
The Archbishop of Canterbury Address at opening ceremony Sant’Egidio International Meeting of Prayer for Peace – Palais de Congress, Lyons Sunday 11 September My diary for the seventh of July involved a very early start from London in order to travel to the North of England. I was due to meet a number of Muslim […]
Categories
Articles may be reproduced in any medium, without applying for permission
(provided they are unedited, and retain the original author/copyright information - and a reference to this website :-)!
26,756 articles online.
Protected by Akismet, Digital Ninjas and an Ion Cannon. Really.
Blog with WordPress