If we examined the scriptures of the world's major religions, how much would nowadays be considered unethical? Many believers would certainly be surprised:
http://bit.ly/2eOjN1b

Anti-vaxxers inoculated from reality.

http://ow.ly/s46Z305icxe

Anti-Vaxxers Accidentally Fund a Study Showing No Link Between Autism...
By Jessica Firger Most experts today agree the belief that childhood vaccines cause autism is based on bunk science. Even still, some advocacy...
richarddawkins.net|By Dan Dredger

Dr. Julia Shaw: Understanding the science of memory can help us deal with our brains’ tendency to rewrite the past.

http://ow.ly/r1uF305aGRV

Editing Our Pasts: Dr. Julia Shaw on The Illusion of Memory
September 26, 2016 Host: Lindsay Beyerstein Dr. Julia Shaw is a psychological scientist and senior researcher in the Department of Law and Social...
richarddawkins.net|By Dan Dredger

The language of exemption.

http://ow.ly/T9SC305i8PS

“Freedom” vs. “Liberty”: Why Religious Conservatives Have Begun to Favor...
By Stephanie Russell-Kraft In 2012, the GOP party platform mentioned “religious freedom” six times. Its section on the First Amendment was titled...
richarddawkins.net|By Dan Dredger

A Secular Rescue success.

http://ow.ly/WWqY305i7Us

Margaret Atwood selects Tutul for Pen writer of courage award
By Alison Flood After surviving an extremist attack in his own country and being forced into exile in Norway, the Bangladeshi publisher and writer...
richarddawkins.net|By Dan Dredger

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

http://ow.ly/y2NZ305gSXL

Who Are You Calling an Atheist?
By Thomas Larson Are there any good reasons these days to declare yourself an atheist? Won’t the label’s tribal militancy, its prickly company, its...
richarddawkins.net|By Dan Dredger

Clayton Stone meets Richard Dawkins at his home and talks God, Oxford, and family in the modern world.

http://ow.ly/cfOA305gSCp

Profile: Richard Dawkins
By Clayton Stone Recently, I had the privilege of sitting down with Professor Richard Dawkins at his home in Oxford. Professor Dawkins is an...
richarddawkins.net|By Dan Dredger

Apart from looking at the archaeological and genetic evidence, some still find it hard to 'believe in evolution' - maybe watching monkeys use stone tools helps. This and more:
http://bit.ly/2dAFktr

Monkeys Observed Making Stone Tools (TWIS)
This Week in Science - These little primates are playing with stone tools; a breakthrough in fusion energy; a "Saturn on steroids" and the other top science and technology news from this week.
wakelet.com

"If you're a spider, that is."

http://ow.ly/cZ3a305aN9V

How Sharing Leads to Death
By Veronique Greenwood The colonial spiders of Ecuador spin homes for themselves the size of houses, wrapping cobwebs around the jungle trees where...
richarddawkins.net|By Dan Dredger

"It's a really weird sensation."

http://ow.ly/4kiH305aMLS

Brain Implant Restores Sense Of Touch To Paralyzed Man
By Jon Hamilton Twelve years ago, a car wreck took away Nathan Copeland’s ability to control his hands or sense what his fingers were touching. A...
richarddawkins.net|By Dan Dredger

"...scientists aren’t sure why it doesn’t get ripped apart by the gravity of the star it orbits."

http://ow.ly/XBMd305aJjt

Distant Ringed Object Could Be ‘Saturn on Steroids’
By Nicholas St. Fleur About 400 light years from our solar system, there is a celestial body that looks like Saturn on steroids. Its rings are...
richarddawkins.net|By Dan Dredger

Phil Torres joins Point of Inquiry host Josh Zepps to discuss just how close we are to experiencing catastrophes that have the potential to fuel our demise.

http://ow.ly/ixuT305aKUl

Doomsday Dread: The End of Civilization, with Phil Torres
October 4, 2016 Host: Josh Zepps Phil Torres is an author, contributing writer for the Future of Life Institute, and an Affiliate Scholar at the...
richarddawkins.net|By Dan Dredger

"The president wants to send humans to Mars by the 2030s, but his administration has done little to achieve that goal."

http://ow.ly/las8305aKt5

Obama’s Cognitive Dissonance About Mars
By Marina Koren In April 2010, Barack Obama gave a big space-policy speech at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s 30-year-old space...
richarddawkins.net|By Dan Dredger

Answers to pressing questions.

http://ow.ly/wBZt305aJVO

Can the U.S. Really Get Astronauts to Mars by 2030?
By Kenneth Chang and Daniel Victor In an essay published Tuesday on CNN’s website, President Obama renewed his call for American astronauts to...
richarddawkins.net|By Dan Dredger

"Arctic life in the time of globalization and climate change."

http://ow.ly/YoRH305aJGh

A Disappearing Home in a Warming World
By Brian Castner When I met Wilfred Jackson—an elder of the Dene First Nation in Fort Good Hope, a small indigenous village in the remote interior...
richarddawkins.net|By Dan Dredger

From Charlie Hebdo to world-famous comedians and memes on Facebook - they are pure comedy and not more.
Comedy does not hurt, but bullets and violence do.
And rights are more important than beliefs.

Making Fun of Religion - There Should Be No Limits To Comedy
Making Fun of Religion - Some of these videos or memes are controversial, so please enjoy at your own discretion. Here are some of the funniest comedy segments questioning religions.
wakelet.com

"The challenge of creating a public able to parse evidence-free 'facts' rests with the press, educators and other thought leaders."

http://ow.ly/195p305aMeP

A Plan to Defend against the War on Science
By Shawn Otto Four years ago in Scientific American, I warned readers of a growing problem in American democracy. The article, entitled...
richarddawkins.net|By Dan Dredger

Hey there #Michigan friends! Tickets are still available to see Richard Dawkins & Julia Sweeney on Nov 7!

Don't miss this fun and enlightening event!

Tix: centerforinquiry.net/dawkinstour

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Boldly go.

http://ow.ly/uGCb305aIID

Telescope to Seek Earthlike Planet in Alpha Centauri System
By Kenneth Chang A scientific research consortium on Tuesday announced plans to build and launch a privately financed telescope the size of a small...
richarddawkins.net|By Dan Dredger