Media matters

The past few days has been quite busy with news articles with some (tenuous) relevance to atheists, so here are a couple of choice links.

29 March – Richard Dawkins voted Reader’s Digest Author of the Year for The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist and scientist, was named author of the year for his demolition of religion, The God Delusion. “It is immensely gratifying to me that The God Delusion seems to have struck a chord with so many people across the country who cast their vote in its favour,” he said.
The Independent

29 March – Anti-Pastafarian discrimination in US school

Bryan Killian says that he follows the Pastafarian religion, and that as a crucial part of his faith, he must wear ‘full pirate regalia’ as prescribed in the holy texts of Pastafarianism. The school, however, say that his pirate garb was disruptive.
The Metro

29 March – Professor F. Clark Howell, palaeoanthropologist, dies

F. Clark Howell was one of the fathers of palaeoanthropology, the science of study of human evolution. He will be best remembered for almost single-handedly establishing the scientific basis for the subject through his publications, his approach to fieldwork and through his personal influence on his students and collaborators.
The Independent

29 March – A story of thriving mammals and dying dinosaurs

They are the only warm-blooded, furry creatures that can feed their young on milk and now it seems the dominance of mammals has more to do with flower power than dinosaur disaster.

A comprehensive family tree of the 4,500 mammalian species alive today has punctured the enduring tale that links the sudden death of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago with the rise of mammals.
The Independent

29 March – The anti-God squad

First to pick up the gauntlet was Dr Nigel Spivey who teaches classical art and archaeology at Cambridge University. “When I’m asked to imagine a world without religion is ends up looking like the suburbs of Swindon,” he lamented, after painting a picture of a grey and featureless world lacking religious inspiration.
The Guardian

28 March – Irish actor Cillian Murphy becomes atheist after work on sci-fi thriller Sunshine

I was agnostic before this film. Now I’m very much an athiest.
Cillian Murphy

26 March – Believers are away with the fairies

We’d be better off without religion, argues AC Grayling, who is a keynote speaker in a major debate on the futility of faith in London tomorrow.
The Telegraph

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