If only scientists would ‘accept’ just a few tiny beliefs, everybody could get along.… Read the rest

‘There’s a widespread perception that I am polemical and strident and shrill…I don’t think I’m strident and shrill.’… Read the rest

Or rather, he wants to popularize evolution in places where Islam is the dominant religion.… Read the rest

Self-righteous – as bad as fundamentalists – fashionable absolutism – Stalin – elite – smug.… Read the rest

Khaled Hosseini: ‘The struggle of women against traditional forces dates back before the Taliban.’… Read the rest

‘When you define the system this broadly, it takes on a more spiritually suggestive cast.’… Read the rest

17th and 18th century geology shows how views of the world evolved not by ideology but by the growth of a body of evidence.… Read the rest

‘In sharia the punishment is not in the force of the whipping but to bring shame,’ said ‘whipping officer.’… Read the rest

In Kalentan authorities have decreed that supermarkets must have segregated checkout queues.… Read the rest

How did the universe begin? Is our universe unique? How did life arise? How does consciousness arise? … Read the rest

An inquisitor at the ‘Illinois Family Institute’ is frantic that an actual atheist is teaching math.… Read the rest

Gender segregation maintains that society is the domain of men, and women are just visitors in it.… Read the rest

‘The Church in Kenya is actually very corrupt,’ says evangelical group, but offers Bible guide anyway.… Read the rest

Homeopathy does not protect people from, or treat, TB, infant diarrhoea, influenza, malaria and HIV.… Read the rest

Radio 4 and the Open University ask a lot of questions.… Read the rest

Population projection is an inexact science. Making up statistics doesn’t make it more exact.… Read the rest

‘Western ways’ are forbidden, first example being ‘the rights and privileges of Women.’ How do you do.… Read the rest

City of Rotterdam and Erasmus University dismissed Ramadan as ‘integration adviser’ and professor.… Read the rest

One universal theme was the low turnout by women. At one station in Kabul, no women had voted.… Read the rest

He argues for a ‘European Islam’ but also speaks of the supremacy over secular law of the Koran and sharia.… Read the rest