The continued rise in US secularism

James L. Haught has posted on the continued rise of secularism in the United States A Huge News Story, Barely Noticed | Unreasonable Faith. In much of Europe, Canada, Australia, and Japan, the fraction of worshippers has dropped to 5-10%, but the US continues to lag behind this trend, with its megachurches and TV evangelists. [...]

Many Americans are still creationists

Sad but true. Four in 10 Americans Believe in Strict Creationism. Furthermore, Americans are behind the citizens of many other industrialized nations in support for evolution (Level of support for evolution). But that’s slowly changing. Belief in creationism has dipped slightly in recent years, but belief that God had no involvement in humanity’s evolution has [...]

Keith Porteus Wood at the UN today

Wood is addressing the United Nations Human Rights Council, speaking on behalf of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) about child abuse in the Catholic Church.

Historic First: Secularist Organization Meets with White House Staffers

On February 26, 2010 was a historic first: the first time any Presidential staffers ever met with members of a secularist lobbying group. It was the Secular Coalition for America, a lobbying group supported by several secularist organizations, from American Atheists to Camp Quest to the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers to the Society [...]

PZ Myers: Humanist of the Year

Paul Zachary Myers, professor of biology at the University of Minnesota at Morris, has been named Humanist of the Year by the publishers of the The Humanist magazine, a publication of the American Humanist Association. It is a pleasure to see an “Old Atheist” organization honoring a “New Atheist”. PZ, as he is often called, [...]