This Newsweek poll (full results here) of Americans contains the following statistics about religion:
- 48% of Americans believe that mankind was ‘created in its present form’, with only 13% believing that humans evolved in a process not guided by god
- 48% believe that the theory of evolution is ‘well-supported’
- 91% identify themselves as religious, with [...]

A bit out of date now, but in February it emerged that the University of Sydney has agreed to ban stem cell research at a new facility built on land it acquired from a Catholic residential college.
According to the ABC:
The church’s deed on the land stipulates there should be no foetal stem cell research or [...]

A simplistic but amusing take on science vs faith.
And WWGWBD? (via BoingBoing).
(reminds me of this t-shirt too).

This comic says something pretty succinctly that I have been thinking a lot lately. It’s by the excellent American cartoonist Ted Rall, who is simultaneously black, bitter, perceptive and extremely funny (warning: and at times, rather left-wing, although not averse to attacking the mainstream left nearly as viciously as the right).
Well, George Lewis told [...]

There is an interesting trial underway at the moment in the South Australian Supreme Court in which a man who was convicted of endangering the lives of three former girlfriends by having sex with them when he knew he was HIV positive is appealing against his conviction.
What’s interesting about the case is that part of [...]