Xmas is over--whew--hope y'all had a good one! But it's still not too late to wish everyone Happy New Year! May you live long and prosper in reason. Here's to ...

I never thought I'd find myself liking an evangelist. But it's hard not to like Jay Bakker, son of the Rev. Jim and ...

The event had drawn hundreds of devotees daily who offered money and gifts for the "Buddha Boy," but were barred by Bomjan's supporters from reaching within 50 metres of his ...

GM got a triple dose of bad news this year. Skyrocketing fuel prices sent sales of its road-behemoths plunging. Poor sales and a refusal to accept the need for a ...

From Guardian Unlimited: More people in Britain think religion causes harm than believe it does good, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today. It shows that an overwhelming majority see ...

New DNA sequencing technique finds another "missing link" in the evolutionary chain. The discovery of the smallest ever microbes puts a further squeeze on I.D.iot dreams of shooting down the ...

In the very first sentence, Eagleton makes the most common mistake: he places theology on a par with science—the study of the unknowable and invisible equivalent to that which has ...

We would like to keep the AO site as it has been: a portal for atheists looking for general information, blogs, newsfeeds, forums and connection to the atheist and critical ...

Pot is now America's biggest cash crop, by a wide margin. That's right: Nationwide, the estimated cannabis production of $35.8 billion exceeds corn ($23 billion), soybeans ($17.6 billion) and ...

You can't just crush people for trying to maintain an open learning environment. Unless you're Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. Shame. Death to theocracy.

Long thought of as socially more tolerant than the U.S., Europe is also a bastion of statist and anti-individual thought. There is also a notable split between the older nations ...

Cross-posted at American Chronicle. A commenter recently asked:Do you see a sort of "Star Trek Federation of Planets" rising out of our present situation (for this one planet, obviously) ...

Sleeper Cell returns with Al-Sayeed in command of a new cell, working for both sides and feeding information to the FBI. This time, the orders involve a nuclear attack. But ...

Like the American inaction in Rwanda, which Bill Clinton called the worst mistake of his presidency, [New Yorker article] the Sudan crisis shows the ineffectiveness of the world's governments, ...

Exciting news! I've recently acquired the domain atheismonline.com. I'm working on getting that site back up as quickly as possible. The former owner of the site was no longer ...