Read More American Ethical Union Part of the Felix Adler to Modern Ethical Humanism series hosted by Leader-in-Training Louise Jett, the first Platform brought to you by the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture goes back to the beginning of the Ethical Culture movement….
Stephen Hawking, remembered as the most ground-breaking scientist of our age, once said: “I fear that artificial intelligence may replace humans altogether” (as cited in Medeiros, 2017). And he was not alone. In fact, a study by Kaspersky (2019) found that 60 per cent of the UK population are concerned their jobs will be replaced
Read More Atheist Alliance International The following was submitted to the blog by one of AAI’s followers. The writer’s name is being withheld to protect family still in Afghanistan. . . . As Richard Dawkins says about religion and children–‘religion is the mental abuse of children’– I, now, fully believe this sentence. I was born
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Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation The Freedom From Religion Foundation commends the Chico Unified School District in Chico, Calif., for painting over an inappropriate religious text on a mural at a public school. FFRF received a complaint last September about the mural, which said “Praise
Sixteen months ago, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck the southern arm of Haiti, decimating the region. Hospitals lay in ruins, unable to treat the 12,000+ people injured in the quake. Hundreds of thousands were left homeless. Roads, bridges, power plants, and schools were destroyed and have never been rebuilt. Compromised water supply systems have led
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Read More Society for Humanistic Judaism This article was published in the Spring 2018 Issue of Humanistic Judaism Magazine. It was written by William Thompson, an independent member of SHJ now living in Tennessee with his husband Josh. I have spent most of my life feeling different,
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Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation A national state/church watchdog is contesting the Oklahoma attorney general’s opinion that a religious entity can operate a public charter school. The Freedom From Religion Foundation has countered Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor’s opinion that a charter school may be
When the final Apollo mission blasted off the lunar surface in 1972, few would have guessed that it would be over five decades before we even got close to going back again. Retrospectively though it’s not the biggest of surprises, as the cracks were already showing: The law of diminishing returns had rarely been so
Read More Atheist Republic Taliban Bans Women From University Education https://www.atheistrepublic.com/news/taliban-bans-women-university-educations Location: Afghanistan On December 20th, the Taliban announced that women would no longer be allowed to attend university. Neda Mohammad Nadeem, the Taliban’s minister for higher education, said the government implemented the ban because women didn’t follow the dress code. Nadeem said, “They were
Read More Skeptic Shermer and Rees discuss: existential threats • overpopulation • biodiversity loss • climate change • AI and self-driving cars, robots, and unemployment • his bet with Steven Pinker • his disagreement with Richard Dawkins • how science works as a communal activity • scientific creativity • science communication • science education •
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