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(November 20, 2009) - Hundreds of college students were surprised on Wednesday when they were handed free copies of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” as they walked across campus.

(November 20, 2009) - The group behind a controversial atheist bus-poster campaign is urging parents not to label their children with their own religious faith.

(November 20, 2009) - On the Galapagos Islands, where Charles Darwin’s observations led to his evolutionary theory, scientists are now reporting that they’re witnessing a single species splitting into two, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

(November 20, 2009) - Does religion have a future? Who looks more like an evolutionary dead end: the religious American or the agnostic European?

(November 19, 2009) -- Most Republican candidates have conservative beliefs, favoring creationism over evolution and saying Bible is literally true

(November 19, 2009) - Antievolutionist Ray Comfort will be distributing copies of the Origin of Species with a new introduction that misrepresents, misunderstands and distorts Darwin's ideas and legacy. Steve Mirsky comments

(November 19, 2009) - Schaeffer: "There is a crazy fringe [receiving] messages that have been pouring out of FOX News ... talking about doing away with Obama, asking God to kill him."

(November 19, 2009) - The church of Scientology has entered another international controversy this week as Nick Xenophon, an independent Australian politician, tabled a number of controversial letters about the church to the Australian Senate.

(November 18, 2009) -Residents of the C Street Christian fellowship house will no longer benefit from a loophole that had allowed the house's owners to avoid paying property taxes.

(November 18, 2009) - The leader of the Catholic hierarchy in the United States on Monday launched a new effort to rein in Catholic debates and dissidents and to remind the flock that the bishops will be the arbiters of what it means to be a Catholic.

(November 17, 2009) - The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a student who complained that high school officials violated her constitutional rights when they turned off her microphone during her religion-tinged graduation speech.

(Novemer 17, 2009) - Barack Obama arrived in Japan today on the first leg of his first trip to Asia as president, a delicate week-long diplomatic swing which will confront him with an array of pressing issues, from North Korea and nukes to climate change and the global economy

(November 17, 2009) - Muslim creationism is back in the news.

(November 16, 2009) - BibleThumper allows atheists to keep the most funny and irrational bible verses right in their pocket.

(November 15, 2009) - When outspoken atheist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins called Ray Comfort "an ignorant fool," Mr. Comfort put that "glowing endorsement" on the cover of his latest book.

(November 15, 2009) - When the nation's 300 or more Catholic bishops gather for each November for their annual fall meeting, there's always a hearty show of clerical camaraderie, much of it deeply-felt, but some of it a charitable mask on the rivalries that are inevitable in any group of strong-willed fellows.

(November 14, 2009) - According to the movie "2012," the end of Earth is at hand when the ancient planet Nibiru smashes into Earth on Dec, 21, 2012.

(November 14, 2009) - Why are we so selective about lessons we draw from religious extremism?

(November 13, 2009) - CINCINNATI - A billboard that reached out to those who don’t believe in God lasted less than 48 hours before threats forced organizers to move it, they said.

(November 13, 2009) -- t looks like Carrie Prejean spoke too soon when she called her recent sex tape the "biggest mistake" of her life.