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Three new booklets by yours truly! A humorous and provocative look at Internet fundamentalist apologetics. Most Internet apologists s...

Culex tarsalis Vector competence of Aedes aegypti, Culex tarsalis, and Culex quinquefasciatus from California for Zika virus Followers...

The Age Gap in Religion Around the World | Pew Research Center A major new Pew Research Center report on Religion and Public life has c...

Pro-abortion demonstrators outside Belfast city hall. Photo credit: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images Northern Ireland abortion law clashes...

What could possible motivate an individual to create multiple accounts with Amazon then use them to obsessively trawl through the book lists...

Human-Specific NOTCH2NL Genes Affect Notch Signaling and Cortical Neurogenesis | Cell. Here's another of those regular occurrences whe...

Key findings about religion in Western Europe | Pew Research Center A new survey by the Pew Research Center highlights major di...

Chilean Bishop Alejandro Goić Karmelić. Credit: Diocese of Rancagua. After scandal, head of Chilean Church’s anti-abuse panel resigns ...

Greeting the result Credit: AP With the result now confirmed, the 'Yes' campaign has scored a stunning victory in their campaign to...

Chile's 34 bishops offer resignation to Pope Credit: AFP/Getty Images All Chile's 34 bishops offer resignation to Pope over sex ab...

Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson Credit: Darren Pateman/AAP Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson found guilty of covering up child sex...

Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris). Credit: RedR / CC BY-SA 3.0 The enemy of my enemy is my friend: native pine marten recovery r...

On March 28th, the white march in honor of Mireille Knoll brought together thousands of people in Paris. Credit: LP / Guillaume Georges ...

Jurassic croccodile, Magyarosuchus fitosi (artist's impression) Credit: Márton Szabó Jurassic fossil is missing link in crocodile f...

Source: Deena Skolnick Weisberg et al., in Bioscience, Vol. 68, No. 3; March 1, 2018 No Missing Link: Knowledge Predicts Acceptance of Evo...

The engraved flint flake from Kiik-Koba layer IV. The arrow indicates the point of impact. Scale = 1 cm. Assessing the significance of P...

Shri Nageshi Temple, Ponda, Goa, India First a confession; I know very little of the Hindu religion other than that there are multiple go...

Fossil reconstruction and illustration of Ichthyornis dispar . Photo Credit: Michael Hanson/Yale University Scientists find the first bird ...

Basilica of Bon Jesus (Good Jesus) Old Goa, Near Panjim Body of Saint Francis Xavier in a silver casket of Basilica o...

Cardinal George Pell leaving court in Melbourne on Tuesday. Credit Joe Castro/EPA, via Shutterstock Source Cardinal George Pell to Stan...

Archbishop Denis Hart Melbourne archbishop says he'd rather go to jail than report child abuse heard in confession | Guardian This ...

The wooden pointed tool immediately following its recovery. Source Found the oldest Neanderthal wooden tools in the Iberian Peninsula | ...

Neanderthal skeleton and artist's reconstruction. Source: Wikipedia Credit: Photaro (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0] , via Wikimedia Common...

The Twelve Tribe cult's base at Klosterzimmern near Deiningen, Bavaria European court upholds German move to take kids from sect Th...

Europe's Young Adults and Religion | St Mary's University Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society. A recent poll conducted jo...

Brown-throated three-toed sloth ( Bradypus variegatus ) Credit: Tauchgurke [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons One of the fascinatin...

Bonobos, Pan paniscus Bonobo and chimpanzee gestures overlap extensively in meaning The thing about evolutionary ...

Amazon molly ( Poecilia formosa ) Photo credit: Manfred Schartl Universität Würzburg: No sex for all-female fish species No wonder Ame...

Chimerarachne yingi , preserved in Myanmar amber Photo: Bo Wang Chimerarachne yingi , preserved in amber in exquisite ...

Marbled crayfish, Procambarus virginalis By Chucholl C. (Own work) [ CC BY-SA 3.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons An aquarium accident may ha...

A scanning electron microscope image of an American house dust mite, Dermatophagoides farinae . Image credit: Ellen Foot Perkowski House...

ILLUSTRATION: P. HUEY/SCIENCE Feeding on plastic | Science One of the more subtle aspects of evolution, and one that creationists are ...

[left caption] [Right caption/credit] Brain shape evolution in Homo sapiens: brain shape of one of the earliest known ...

In U.S., Belief in Creationist View of Humans at New Low Slightly encouraging news a couple of days ago from a Gallop poll in the USA. I ...

Misliya-1 This ancient jawbone suggests our species left Africa 40,000 years earlier than expected | Science | AAAS The story of when a...

Lesser green sandpiper or yellowlegs, Tringa Flavipes Credit: Wwcsig via Wikimedia ( CC BY-SA 3.0 ) When you show...

Bishop Juan Barros Pope accuses sex abuse victims of slander In an astonishing end to his less than triumphal visit to Chile, Pope Francis...

Upper view of the Montmaurin-LN mandible. Source The Montmaurin-La Niche mandible reveals the complexity of the Neanderthals’ origin | CENI...

Large cactus finch ( Geospiza conirostris ) Study of Darwin's finches reveals that new species can develop in as little as two genera...