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Rise of atheism in Egypt sparks concern | GulfNews.com It's not just in the Western world that clerics who earn their living from peop...

In one of those excruciatingly embarrassing pronouncements Popes are periodically prone to making about science, Pope Francis today announce...

The Cuncaicha rock shelter, high in the Peruvian Andes Photo: Barbara Fraser Humans were living at extreme altitudes 1000 years earlier tha...

Neanderthal DNA specialist Svante Pääbo examines the anatomically modern human femur, found near Ust'-Ishim in western Siberia. Photogra...

Methodist Chapel, Bentlawnt, Shropshire, UK Exclusive: New figures reveal massive decline in religious affiliation | Christian News on Ch...

It's been a bad couple of weeks for poor little Manuel de Dios Agosto , the unemployable, expelled Catholic seminarian with attention de...

BBC News - Catholic synod: Gay rights groups 'disappointed' Any illusions the 'reforming' Pope Francis may have been under...

C. inornatus (left) and C. tigris (right), which hybridize naturally to form C. neomexicanus (centre) Photograph by Alistair J. Cullum...

Silbury Hill, the largest Neolithic earthwork in Europe Own photograph Silbury Hill Silbury Hill, in Wiltshire,...

"Three Goddesses, Roman high relief sculpture" (Corinium Museum, Cirencester) by Tony Grist - Photographer's own files. Lic...

Cirencester, looking east down Market Place. We've just arrived back home from a very pleasant Autumn mini-break in Gloucestershire a...

You just can't beat science. You can almost feel sorry for Fruit Loop, Manuel de Dios Agosto, the expelled Bronx Catholic trainee prie...

Malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum , in human blood. For about 100,000 years, humans have had to live with a particularly nasty par...

Vatican accuses U.N. panel of sowing confusion If you're expecting radical reforms in the Catholic Church, especially in its attitude ...

Early bioenergetic evolution Here's another one of those scientific papers that creation pseudoscience frauds must dread because it de...

Guardian Angel ; Bernhard Plockhorst (1825–1907) Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons . I believe in angels, says Pope Fran...

Protoclaviger trichodens in Cambay amber Parker and Grimaldi, Specialized Myrmecophily at the Ecological Dawn of Modern Ants, Current Bi...

Amir-Aslani, 37. Hanged for making "innovations in the religion", "spreading corruption on earth" and "insulting...

Trepezia flavopunctata . The largest species of guard crab. Photo: Seabird McKeon Crabby Tenants Defend Corals From Marauding Predators ...

Half of Earth's water formed before the sun was born | Science/AAAS | News No one could honestly accuse creationists of not being hypo...

Fundamentalist Mormons harvest the community garden along with their children at the Rockland Ranch community outside Moab, Utah, November...

One aspect of evolution which creationists either feign ignorance of or have been fooled by creationist pseudoscience frauds about, is how e...

Dinesh D'Souza Source: Wikipedia Don't worry if you live outside the USA and have never heard of Dinesh d'Souza. His brand of ...

Jim Wells, DUP, Minister of Health for Northern Ireland Jim Wells becomes new health minister (for Northern Ireland) First Minister of ...

Ripples from dawn of creation vanish in a puff of dust - physics-math - 22 September 2014 - New Scientist Okay, so scientists got one wron...

Evidence for evolution in response to natural selection in a contemporary human population. Scientists from Canada and the UK have recentl...

PHOTO: REUTERS/MAX ROSSI Dutch bishops give Pope Francis a bleak picture of Catholic Church in decline | FaithWorld Along with most Eu...

If ISIS’s God Were Real, Would I Be Obliged to Follow Him? Confused Christians can now sleep soundly in their beds because William Lane Cr...

Primal pull of a baby crying reaches across species - life - 18 September 2014 - New Scientist It used to be axiomatic that only humans ha...

Darwin's "warm little pond" Chances of first life improved by weighted dice - life - 18 September 2014 - New Scientist &q...

Archetypal European hunter-gatherer DNA study reveals third group of ancient ancestors of modern Europeans | Science | theguardian.com ...

Hacked photosynthesis could boost crop yields : Nature News & Comment You see, one of the pieces of crap design that life on Earth has...

Plant Ecological Strategies Shift Across the Cretaceous–Paleogene Boundary | PLOS Biology, September 16, 2014 The thing about science is t...

Evolution doesn't read any rules and feels no obligation to conform to any norms, so we should expect the unexpected. If we didn't ...

This Thursday's Scottish referendum on independence from the rest of the United Kingdom is a pivotal moment, not only in the history of ...

[left caption] [Right caption/credit] Neanderthal demise traced in unprecedented detail - life - 20 August 2014 - N...

Brain drain: Are we evolving stupidity? - life - 20 August 2014 - New Scientist An article by Bob Holmes in New Scientist this week report...

Ant with mite on its head, in amber. Photo: Jason Dunlop/Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin Mite and ant locked together in amber - Nature | ...

Polypterus senegalus How fish can learn to walk : Nature News & Comment A fascinating piece of research published a few days ago sh...

Irish Cardinal Sean Baptist Brady arrives for a meeting at the Synod Hall in the Vatican, March 6, 2013. Photo: REUTERS/Tony Gentile Pop...