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In the concluding chapter, Freedom to Choose , in my book, Ten Reasons To Lose Faith: And Why You Are Better Off Without It, I point out the...

Oh! This was just a mistake! It's now clear that Cameron's decision to try to shut up the minority of Europhobes in his own part...

The defining feature of the Brexit campaign has been its dishonesty and use of lies and distorted statistics right from the beginning. This...

I'll be departing from my usual science and Atheism posts for the next few days to concentrate on the impending referendum on the UK'...

Statue of Jesus on Menorca's highest point - Monte Toro As I said in my previous post, Menorca has a lot of history, having a large n...

Naveta d'Es Tudons, Menorca. A burial tomb for about 100 bodies between 1200 and 750 BCE. Possibly the oldest roofed building in Europ...

I noticed this saxifrage which has been struggling for about three years to survive on a the patch of gravel which constitutes my front gard...

The Genetic Cost of Neanderthal Introgression - Genetics According to a paper recently published in Genetics PDF , interbreeding between ...

Kepler-62f (Artist's impression). A planet in the 'habitable zone' of a star located about 1,200 light-years from Earth. Credi...

35,000 year old female skull found in the Pestera Muierii cave in Romania. Source: Daily Mail The mitogenome of a 35,000-year-old Homo sa...

You know, theists seem a frightened little lot especially when it comes to even basic argument against 'faith'. They seem almost to...

A large aberrant stem ichthyosauriform indicating early rise and demise of ichthyosauromorphs in the wake of the end-Permian extinction : Sc...

Hector's beaked whale found at Waitpinga Beach Photo credit: South Australian Museum Rare whale found on Australian beach believed to...

Manuel de Dios Agosto (aka Sacerdotus and very many other aliases ) - one of the least competent Internet beggars and frauds in the business...

Monocercomonoides Monocercomonoides First eukaryotes found without a normal cellular power supply | Scienc...

A high-quality carrot genome assembly provides new insights into carotenoid accumulation and asterid genome evolution : Can there be any o...

Another excerpt from my book, Ten Reasons To Lose Faith: And Why You Are Better Off Without It, this time explaining why you would be better...

The phenomenon of the 'crisis of faith' is curious. Theology must be the only academic discipline where practitioners regularly hav...

Diet affects the evolution of birds -- ScienceDaily One of the nicest things about studying biology, and particularly evolutionary biology...

(A) Two males on a parasitized A. vaga (Osnabrück, 10.ii.2008). (B) Five males on a parasitized host (Osnabrück, 23.ii.2008). Photographs...

Australian Aborginals have one of the oldest histories of any peoples, dating back 50,000 years. Photo Credit: Rusty Stewart/Flickr (CC BY...

Father Joseph Jeyapaul – ABC News Sexual abuse case: US woman files lawsuit against Indian Bishop You might think, with all the fanfare...

Artist's impression of the amphibious ichthyosaur, Cartorhynchus lenticarpus , crawling over dry land Credit: University of California a...

Phylogeny of the Oniticellini and Onthophagini dung beetles (Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) from morphological evidence You might think that ...

Frontiers | Mammuthus Population Dynamics in Late Pleistocene North America: Divergence, Phylogeography and Introgression | Paleontology T...

Meduim ground finch, Geospiza fortis A beak size locus in Darwin’s finches facilitated character displacement during a drought | Science ...

Senior Pastor Michael Orten of The Truth Apostolic Church, Madisonville, KY As a Humanist I have no problem at all with the idea that som...

Cryptotora thamicola. Tetrapod-like pelvic girdle in a walking cavefish : Scientific Reports There are enough of these 'non-existen...

Meet Paseka Motsoeneng, aka, Mboro. Pastor Motsoeneng, of the Incredible Happenings Church in Katlehong, South Africa, is personal friends...

My latest book, Ten Reasons To Lose Faith: And Why You Are Better Off Without It is already receiving critical acclaim from readers: ..an...

Missing Y chromosome kept us apart from Neanderthals | New Scientist There is no serious doubt outside creationist circles these days that...

Elasmotherium sibiricum A fossilised skull has revealed when the last 'Siberian unicorn' lived on Earth - ScienceAlert The good...

Most people in Scotland 'not religious' - BBC News It's a measure of just how irrelevant religion is becoming in the UK that t...

If you haven't heard already, Ten Reasons To Lose Faith is a major new book aimed at non-believers, believers and those und...

PLOS Computational Biology: Impaired Air Conditioning within the Nasal Cavity in Flat-Faced Homo Don't get me wrong! The human face i...

'Fairy-Rings' in Western Australia Discovery of fairy circles in Australia supports self-organization theory. The two sacred ch...

Faith is a fallacy! Faith is delusionary. It produces the illusion of knowledge and certainty in the absence of real knowledge and underst...

Radovan Karadžić. Genocide for Jesus. Radovan Karadzic's road to the International Criminal Tribunal - BBC News It was almost proph...

Schistosoma mansoni Stem cell progeny contribute to the schistosome host-parasite interface | eLife It gets a bit tedious to keep writi...

A computer generated reconstruction of the crocodile ancestor Carnufex carolinensis which lived on land and walked on two legs and may ha...