Atheism News

It seems the only place people aren't shouting about this week's swearing in of new Asheville City Council member Cecil Bothwell is Asheville.

Politics, religion, and atheism in North Carolina are coming to a head. Cecil Bothwell, atheist, is soon to be seated as a City Council member in North Carolina.

Atheism has often been viewed as the polar opposite of religion, but is that really the case? Some would argue that atheism itself is a religion.

Opinionline Archives Atheists need a different voice We all know the names of those angry white men who tend to antagonize the worlda TMs believers.

The more common understanding of atheism among atheists is "not believing in any gods." No claims or denials are made -- an atheist is a person who is not a theist.

Couple says daughter was sexually abused

A Blount County physician and his wife have sued Maryville Christian School, saying their daughter was sexually abused by a fellow student there and that the school unjustly expelled her while only suspending the alleged abuser for two days.

Before Saturday, Rebecca Corona-Nickerson did not know too much about Buddhism including the fact that Buddhism has no god.

This week in the Phoenix , Adam Reilly profiles "atheist superstar" Greg Epstein, Harvard's Humanist chaplain and the author of Good Without God: What A Million Nonreligious People Do Believe .

The London party scene will lose one of its stalwarts when Hannah Sandling, the television presenter and stylist, packs off to Argentina to be with her Uruguayan boyfriend, Bruno Varela.

We do not want holy books, but true ones; not sacred writings, but sensible writings.

PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris .

Albert Einstein is sometimes claimed by religious theists seeking the authority of a famous scientist for their theistic views, but Einstein denied the existence of the traditional concept of a personal god.

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

"It's an undeniable fact that to own up to being an atheist is tantamount to introducing yourself as Mr.

Dawkins argues that there is no doubt that Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is true and, unlike some other scholars of the subject, says belief in evolution is not compatible with faith in religion.

On the Psychological Causes of Atheism and the Differences Between the Revolutionary, Frustrated and Intellectual Atheist The psychology of atheism brings in the huge and impossible question of what is God before we can move on to the question of belief and disbelief in God, so it's tricky.

Even 150 years after it first appeared in print, Charles Darwin's "On The Origin of Species" still fuels clashes between scientists convinced of its truth and critics who reject its view of life without a creator.

A number of Christians treat Thanksgiving as a religious and even Christian holiday.

America's universities are supposed to be marketplaces of ideas, but last week they looked more like theaters of the absurd, as representatives of an evangelical group descended on an undetermined number of campuses to hand out free copies of Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species." The catch: They used an edition of Darwin's seminal 1859 text ...

I have just seen and understood something that no one has ever seen and understood before.