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Oxytocin-dependent consolation behavior in rodents | Science. It is probably one of the more subtle, insidiously harmful aspects of religi...

WHO warns over spread of Zika virus - BBC News It looks like creationism's intelligent (sic) designer has come up with another brillia...

(a) Histogram of pigmentation score on the last two abdominal segments in ten females in three melanogaster subgroup species grown under s...

A thought occurred to me today, prompted by an online friend - fundamentalist religion has some striking parallels with obsessive compulsive...

Mammoth ribs with hunting lesions collected at Yana RHS [(A) to (F)], showing the mechanism for the formation of bone injury on the fifth ...

Church of England attendance plunges to record low - Telegraph Active membership of the Church of England in Britain is in freefall. The...

Georg Ratzinger Domkapellmeister, Ragensberg Domspatzen, 1964-1994 At least 231 children abused at Catholic boys’ choir run by Pope Bene...

His Excellency Braulio Rodriguez Plaza Archbishop of Toledo, Spain Source: Wikipedia Fury as archbishop says domestic violence is caused...

Library synthesis and the mechanism of self-replication. For description, see original source . Diversification of self-replicating mol...

Early Qur'an Broolyn Museum, USA Qur'an illumniated manuscript 18th-Early 19th Century Metropolitan Mus...

No, this is not another blog about how Pope Francis eagerly participates in such obviously fake 'miracles' as the 'St Gennaro bl...

Tasmania devil Sarcophilus harrisii A second transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils . A little over 30 years ago, Tasmanian devils, m...

This is the third year I've written up a brief summary of some of the most interesting papers on evolution and related science for the p...

An Unprejudiced Mind: Atheism, Science and Reason is my latest book - a sequel to The Light Of Reason: And Other Atheist Writing series - ...

African Straw-colored fruit bat, Eidolon helvum By U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters Bat Week 2017 - Congressional...

Homo erectus Source: Wikipedia PLOS ONE: A Hominin Femur with Archaic Affinities from the Late Pleistocene of Southwest China A point t...

Millennials: Christmas more cultural than religious | Pew Research Center The 'Millennials' in America have been increasingly reje...

Demodex folliculorum Global divergence of the human follicle mite Demodex folliculorum : Persistent associations between host ancestry an...

Baroness Butler-Sloss LIVING WITH DIFFERENCE - community, diversity and the common good In a report out a few days ago , a commision of...

Cellular defense against latent colonization foiled by human cytomegalovirus UL138 protein | Science Advances Here's a little challeng...

The basic difference between science and religion is that science is grown up while religion is essentially childish. This is illustrated b...

Human-specific derived alleles of CD33 and other genes protect against postreproductive cognitive decline There's something special ab...

Otago researchers describe new North Pacific fossil whale, News at Otago, University of Otago, New Zealand. This week's 'missing&...

Singapore Blue Tarantula ( Lampropelma violaceopes ) Source: Wikipedia Blue reflectance in tarantulas is evolutionarily conserved despit...

NI abortion law 'breaches human rights' | BBC News In another example of how secular humanism is replacing archaic Christian bigot...

A: external view of sole’s tail hanging out of blowhole. B: blowhole cut open to the right side, revealing the sole in the vestibular sac....

The evolution of bat nucleic acid-sensing Toll-like receptors - Escalera-Zamudio - 2015 - Molecular Ecology - Wiley Online Library Here is...

The Rev. Finian McDonald. "More than 200 victims." Minnesota Star Tribune The Rev. Finian McDonald. "...

Inside the Bizarre Genome of the World’s Toughest Animal If you want good evidence of the common origins of living organisms on Earth, it ...

Majority of Unaffiliated Believe Evolution Occurred Through Natural Processes | Pew Research Center We're in the End Times. The signs ...

Honestly! They are THAT big! Sperm number trumps sperm size in mammalian ejaculate evolution | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London...

Escherichia coli Emergence of plasmid-mediated colistin resistance mechanism MCR-1 in animals and human beings in China: a microbiologica...

Reconstruction of a Neanderthal woman Source: PLOS Biology Nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences from two Denisovan individuals | PNAS I...

Thousands To Quit Mormon Church Over New Anti-Gay Decree – Public Mass Resignation Event Saturday - The New Civil Rights Movement News tha...

Bird embryos uncover homology and evolution of the dinosaur ankle : Nature Communications : Nature Publishing Group Science is like a dete...

Source: Aurélien J. Doucet et al. A 3′ Poly(A) Tract Is Required for LINE-1 Retrotransposition. Molecular Cell, November 2015 DOI: 10.1...

I love Amazon's book reviews. Basically, anyone can say anything they want. Fortunately, there is a check that they've bought the b...

Religious 'nones' becoming more secular | Pew Research Center More signs of the growing penetration of secular Atheism into that b...

Believing What We Do Not Believe: Acquiescence to Superstitious Beliefs and Other Powerful Intuitions | PsycNET How do religious people ma...

Talking Jesus Booklet | Evangelical Alliance, Church of England & Hope Together I wrote a few days ago about a survey showing that 39%...