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Who Said It: Dan Brown Or Richard Dawkins?

HuffingtonPost.com | Felicity A Morse | Posted 14.05.2013 | UK

Da Vinci code author Dan Brown is set to release his latest blockbuster in the next 24 hours, with eager readers already salivating at the chance to q...

The Dawkins Disconnect

Nicholas Barrett | Posted 23.04.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Nicholas Barrett

In 2006 Richard Dawkins wrote what might yet prove to be one of the most important books of the 21st Century, The God Delusion. However, seven years on and Dawkins appears to have become unnecessarily divisive and detached.

Dawkins Questions If Religious Muslims Can Be 'Serious' Journalists

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 21.04.2013 | UK

Atheist professor Richard Dawkins has sparked a storm of controversy online for suggesting a Muslim journalist should not have had an opinion piece pu...

Depression in the Elderly - In Search of a Secular Church

Hannah Gal | Posted 15.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Hannah Gal

We are social beings and interacting with others is crucial to our functioning and mental health. The loss of active family connections and any sense of community, inevitably lead to depression so the question is how do we bring socialisng back into these people's lives and can a sense of community actually be established?

Topless Jihad Day: Femen's War On Islam Is Underway

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 08.04.2013 | UK

UPDATE 'Sisters, Until The Moment There Are No Stones, Bullets Or Blood In Your Religion, We Will Fight It': Inna Shevchenko Pens a Full Response To...

Topless Jihad Day: Femen Declare War On Islam Warning 'Our Tits Are Deadlier Than Your Stones'

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 10.04.2013 | UK

UPDATE 'Femen Are True Feminists But They Have Insulted Muslims': Topless Tunisian Activist Amina Tyler Speaks'Sisters, Until The Moment There Are N...

Review: 'The God Argument - The Case Against Religion and for Humanism' By A.C. Grayling

Andrew Doyle | Posted 31.03.2013 | UK Entertainment
Andrew Doyle

Whatever else one might think of Grayling's views, his skills as a writer are incontestable. The sheer clarity of his jargon-free prose makes The God Argument a pleasure to read.

'They Say I Am A Whore, A Mossad Agent, I Get Death Threats'

The Huffington Post UK | Federica Tourn | Posted 03.04.2013 | UK

UPDATE Topless Jihad Day: Femen Declare War On Islam In Wake Of Amina Tyler Storm, Warning 'Our Tits Are Deadlier Than Your Stones' The unlikely st...

Church Of England Accused Of 'Dishonesty' In Prayer Survey Findings

The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 26.03.2013 | UK

Atheists have accused the Church of England of "spinning" the results of research that claimed ‘four out of five believe in the power of prayer’ a...

Topless Tunisian Femen Protester Amina Tyler 'Is Home & Well', Says Lawyer

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 03.04.2013 | UK

UPDATE Topless Jihad Day: Femen Declare War On Islam In Wake Of Amina Tyler Storm, Warning 'Our Tits Are Deadlier Than Your Stones' A lawyer claimi...

Topless Tunisian Femen Protester Amina 'Admitted To Psychiatric Ward By Her Family'

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 25.05.2013 | UK

UPDATE: Topless Tunisian Femen Protester Amina Tyler 'Is Home & Well', Says Lawyer A 19-year-old Tunisian activist who was threatened with death by...

The Selfish Genius?

Judi Sutherland | Posted 13.05.2013 | UK
Judi Sutherland

I've been meaning to write about the Richard Dawkins brand of atheism for a while, but today is definitely the day, after watching the great man's Twitter feed pronounce on the superior worth of an adult pig over a human foetus. I'm not sure I follow his argument, but actually that's not my point. I'm interested in his motivation.

'Directly Contrary To Policy'

Posted 11.03.2013 | UK Universities & Education

University College London has responded to a row over attempts to segregate the audience at a debate about Islam and atheism by their gender - saying ...

Segregated Seating Row At Islam Versus Atheism Debate

The Huffington Post UK | Tom Moseley | Posted 10.03.2013 | UK

An academic says he threatened to walk out of a debate hosted by the Islamic Education and Research Academy (iERA) because organisers tried to segrega...

This House Believes Religion Has No Place in the 21st Century

The Cambridge Union Society | Posted 06.04.2013 | UK Universities & Education
The Cambridge Union Society

I don't think that any of the good things which religions do are unique, and nor are they able to counterbalance all of the terrible things which they have done, which they continue to do, and which have been done in their name.

Dawkins Attacks Religion As 'Pernicious Charlatan' In Debate With Archbishop

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 02.04.2013 | UK

Prominent atheist professor Richard Dawkins described religion as "redundant and irrelevant" as he took on the former Archbishop of Canterbury in a de...

God V Science

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 31.01.2013 | UK Universities & Education

Professor Richard Dawkins and Dr Rowan Williams will debate the role of religion in the modern world at the Cambridge Union Society on Thursday night....

Richard Dawkins and the Myth of the Angry Atheist

Andrew Doyle | Posted 16.02.2013 | UK Comedy
Andrew Doyle

Religious positions would be better served if their proponents addressed the actual criticisms, rather than taking a defensive stance against the imagined disdain of those who disagree. Like Robert Frost's drunken cow, they bellow on a knoll against the sky.

Less Atheism, More Humanism

Chris Price | Posted 23.02.2013 | UK
Chris Price

Atheism is a dirty word. But not as dirty, apparently, as humanism.

Dawkins Is Wrong - Religion Is Rational

Mehdi Hasan | Posted 23.02.2013 | UK Politics
Mehdi Hasan

In trying to disparage 'faith', Dawkins and his allies constantly confuse 'evidence' with 'proof'; those of us who believe in God do so without proof but not without evidence. As the Oxford theologian (and biophysicist) Alister McGrath has observed: "Our beliefs may be shown to be justifiable, without thereby demonstrating that they are proven."

Ambitious Atheist Census 'Taken Down By Hackers'

The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 10.12.2012 | UK

An ambitious campaign to create a census of the world's atheists has been taken offline after just 17 hours after an alleged DDOS attack on the Atheis...

Einstein's Brain and the Question of Consciousness in Defying Depression

Tony Lobl | Posted 20.01.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Tony Lobl

My friend remarked on how he'd had the top medical care and had taken almost 10,000 pills in the eight years between the doctor's diagnosis and its reversal. Yet that time was still filled with such mental and physical lows that he frequently felt suicidal.

And the Lord Said: Odds of 1-2 for the Bishop of Durham

Mathew Strowbridge | Posted 09.01.2013 | UK Politics
Mathew Strowbridge

Justin Welby is yet to be announced as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, yet his appointment is already in risk of being overshadowed by a supposed gambling ring in one of London's wealthiest neighbourhoods.

'In Relation to Animals, all Humans Are Nazis' - Animal Rights Today Part One

Hannah Gal | Posted 01.01.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Hannah Gal

'When we were children', he explains, 'we listened to our parents read us a story about animals, we smiled and giggled, we mimicked the noises the animals made, we wanted to play with them.. not have someone shove a knife in their throat and cut them up into pieces'.

Einstein's 'God Letter' Effect on the US 2012 Elections

Hannah Gal | Posted 12.12.2012 | UK
Hannah Gal

As I thank Gazin for his time I am astounded at this great man's ability to impact the 2012 US elections; unlike the UK, US election candidates' religious beliefs are a deal breaker for many voters. Even with the freshly reported significant rise in the number of openly declared US atheists, this remains a burning issue on the US political agenda.