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The Dog Delusion

There was a time when "Dog is my co-pilot" was merely a fun slap at the "God is my co-pilot" bumper sticker, and it was funny precisely because nobody would ever think to elevate their dog... Read More

Memoirs of a Spiritual Refugee

Jane Stork's book, Breaking the Spell: My Life as a Rajneeshee and the Long Journey Back to Freedom (Pan Macmillan, 2009), is the story of a spiritual quest that led not to lightness or freedom but... Read More

Book Excerpt: GOOD WITHOUT GOD

"It's not easy to live a good life or be a good person—with or without a god," writes Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein in the introduction to his new book, Good Without God: What a Billion... Read More

Comes a Horseman

PZ Myers is a University of Minnesota biology professor who specializes in evolutionary developmental biology. He is also the author of the widely read and acclaimed science blog Pharyngula, which resides at Seed magazine's science blogs... Read More

Infosnacking with The Friendly Atheist

A weekly commentary by Hemant Mehta, adapted from his blog "The Friendly Atheist."For HumanistNetworkNews.org Sept. 30, 2009More Musicians Embrace Godlessness Musicians from different genres are beginning to embrace atheism and their lyrics are reflecting it!  Now,... Read More

Infosnacking with The Friendly Atheist

For HumanistNetworkNews.org Sept. 16, 2009A weekly commentary by Hemant Mehta, adapted from his blog "The Friendly Atheist."Stand Up for God Bless America... Or Else Three teenagers were kicked out of a minor league baseball stadium because... Read More

Who’s the Unlikely Hero?

COLUMN By DOUG THOMASFor HumanistNetworkNews.org Sept. 2, 2009 A Canadian politician recently characterized Donald Marshall as "an unlikely hero." Marshall, an Aboriginal Canadian who was wrongly convicted of murder and subsequently set free after years of... Read More

Musings of a Solo-ist Astrophysicist

The following is adapted from Neil deGrasse Tyson’s June 5, 2009, speech in acceptance of the American Humanist Association’s Isaac Asimov Science Award, presented to him at its annual conference in Tempe, Arizona. When I was... Read More

The HUMANIST Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ahead of this Sunday's premiere of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, TheHumanist.com revisits our 2009 interview with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, winner of that year's Isaac Asimov Science Award at the American Humanist Association's 68th Annual Conference. Tyson's... Read More