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<title>Humans 80,000 Years Older Than Previously Thought?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Modern humans may have evolved more than 80,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study of sophisticated stone tools found in Ethiopia.   

The tools were uncovered in the 1970s at the archaeological site of Gademotta, in the Ethiopian Rift Valley. But it was not until this year that new dating techniques revealed the tools to be far older than the oldest known Homo sapien bones, which are around 195,000 years old.

Using argon-argon dating&#8212;a technique that comp]]></description>
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<title>It's Time to Update the Pledge</title>
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<description><![CDATA[
Under God mourns the loss of the minister who persuaded President Eisenhower and Congress in 1954 to insert into the Pledge of Allegiance the phrase &#34;under God&#34; -- an idea whose time was then.
Now, with the passing of the Rev. George M. Docherty, who died Thanksgiving Day at the age of 97, let us review why the phrase was added in the first place and why we should consider updating the pledge.

Docherty's contribution to American civil religion came during a sermon he preached at ]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-12-03T13:11:27-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Anti-terror law requires God be acknowledged</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Under state law, God is Kentucky's first line of defense against terrorism.
The 2006 law organizing the state Office of Homeland Security lists its initial duty as &#34;stressing the dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the Commonwealth.&#34;

 Specifically, Homeland Security is ordered to publicize God's benevolent protection in its reports, and it must post a plaque at the entrance to the state Emergency Operations Center with an 88-word statement that begins, &#38;quo]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-12-02T20:25:25-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>A New Picture of the Early Earth</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The first 700 million years of Earth’s 4.5-billion-year existence are known as the Hadean period, after Hades, or, to shed the ancient Greek name, Hell.

That name seemed to fit with the common perception that the young Earth was a hot, dry, desolate landscape interspersed with seas of magma and inhospitable for life. Even if some organism had somehow popped into existence, the old story went, surely it would soon have been extinguished in the firestorm of one of the giant meteorites that slam]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-12-02T13:30:32-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Nigerian city counts its dead after days of Christian-Muslim riots</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Officials were counting the dead in a central Nigerian city yesterday after two days of violent clashes between Christian and Muslim gangs.

Nearly 400 bodies are reported to have been received at the main mosque in Jos, while there are also expected to be a significant number of Christian casualties. Thousands of people fled their homes in the city after rival mobs burned houses, shops, and several churches and mosques in the worst sectarian violence in the country since 2004.

Witnesses sa]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-12-01T23:39:53-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>'Honor' killing comes to the US</title>
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<description><![CDATA[..In the last few months, there have been news reports of a Jordanian man murdering his daughter "to cleanse the family's honor" after she kept leaving home without permission; another Jordanian, 22 years old, who gave the same reason - "family honor" - for killing his pregnant sister; a Saudi woman beaten and shot by her father after he discovered her having an online correspondence with a man on Facebook; and two Arab brothers in Israel, who strangled their sister after learning that she was i]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-11-28T16:28:49-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>UN Bans ''Defamation of Religion'' in Islamic Bid to Curb Free Speech</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UN Watch Geneva, November 24, 2008 — By a vote of 85 to 50, with 42 abstaining, the UN General Assembly today adopted a draft resolution calling on all countries to alter their legal and constitutional systems to prevent "defamation of religions," asserting that "Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism."

The decision, sponsored by Islamic states with the support of Venezuela and Belarus, drew immediate protests from human rights activists and lega]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-11-25T21:15:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Top Scientist Rails Against Hirings</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The president of the nation's largest general science organization yesterday sharply criticized recent cases of Bush administration political appointees gaining permanent federal jobs with responsibility for making or administering scientific policies, saying the result would be "to leave wreckage behind."

"It's ludicrous to have people who do not have a scientific background, who are not trained and skilled in the ways of science, make decisions that involve resources, that involve facilitie]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-11-23T22:45:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Remains Of Copernicus Confirmed</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In spring 2004, at the meeting of the Scientific Council of the Frombork-based Baltic Research Centre, Jerzy G&#261;ssowski received an interesting challenge - find the remains of Nicolas Copernicus.

To be sure, something was known of his death.   He had died in Poland at age 70, and he was buried at his church somewhere, but he died while his work was being printed so the man who theorized that the sun, rather than the Earth, is at the center of the universe, was not yet famous enough to mer]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-11-22T20:00:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Islamic Theologian's Theory: It's Likely the Prophet Muhammad Never Existed</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MÜNSTER, Germany -- Muhammad Sven Kalisch, a Muslim convert and Germany's first professor of Islamic theology, fasts during the Muslim holy month, doesn't like to shake hands with Muslim women and has spent years studying Islamic scripture. Islam, he says, guides his life.

So it came as something of a surprise when Prof. Kalisch announced the fruit of his theological research. His conclusion: The Prophet Muhammad probably never existed.

Muslims, not surprisingly, are outraged. Even Danish ]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-11-16T00:10:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Evolution's new wrinkle: Proteins with cruise control provide new perspective</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A team of Princeton University scientists has discovered that chains of proteins found in most living organisms act like adaptive machines, possessing the ability to control their own evolution.

The research, which appears to offer evidence of a hidden mechanism guiding the way biological organisms respond to the forces of natural selection, provides a new perspective on evolution, the scientists said.

The researchers -- Raj Chakrabarti, Herschel Rabitz, Stacey Springs and George McLendon ]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-11-13T00:10:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>US high court weighs freedom of speech, religion in Utah case</title>
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<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US Supreme Court Wednesday took up the issue of freedom of speech and religion in a case in which a small sect wants to place its own monument alongside one of the Ten Commandments in a public park in Utah.
The sect, called Summum, filed a lawsuit against the small city of Pleasant Grove for rejecting their monument while allowing the Ten Commandments erected in 1971 by the Fraternal Order of Eagles because it had a historic value.
Summum sued the city for violating thei]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-11-12T21:15:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Saudi Arabia to lead UN talks on religious tolerance</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UNITED NATIONS, New York: Saudi Arabia, which deploys a special police force to ensure that only one narrow sect of Islam predominates in the kingdom, is sponsoring a discussion at the United Nations on religious tolerance starting Wednesday.

More than a dozen world leaders are expected to attend, including President George W. Bush, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain and the Saudi monarch, King Abdullah, making a rare appearance at the UN headquarters.

Officially, the United Nations do]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-11-11T00:00:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Monks brawl at Jerusalem shrine</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Israeli police have had to restore order at one of Christianity's holiest sites after a mass brawl broke out between monks in Jerusalem's Old City.

Fighting erupted between Greek Orthodox and Armenian monks at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the traditional site of Christ's crucifixion.

Two monks from each side were detained as dozens of worshippers traded kicks and punches at the shrine, said police.

Trouble flared as Armenians prepared to mark the annual Feast of the Cross.

Tapes]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-11-10T13:00:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>&#39;No More Mr Nice Gay&#39; as Mormons face vote backlash</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Daniel Ginnes carried a banner declaring: "No More Mr Nice Gay." Brian Lindsey held up a sign billing Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, as a "prophet, polygamist, paedophile." Hundreds of others simply chanted: "Mormon s*****."

More than 2,000 gay rights protesters marched on a Mormon temple in Los Angeles on Thursday, throwing the church and its followers on to the front line of the battle over California''s decision to ban same-sex marriage.

Earlier this week,]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-11-08T13:00:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Blasphemy law ditched by the Dutch</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A controversial anti-blasphemy law is being scrapped by the Dutch government. The move is remarkable as two of the current three members of the ruling coalition are Christian parties and they had originally wanted to maintain the ban.

In scrapping the law the cabinet is meeting the demand of parliament where a majority of parties argued that offering religious groups an extra layer of legal protection is outdated.

As an alternative the cabinet is now seeking to strengthen anti-discriminati]]></description>
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<title>Obama promises new era of scientific innovation</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the American people chose Barack Obama as the country''s 44th president, promising a sea change in US policy that could affect not just the US, but the whole world.

Here we take a look at what Obama has pledged over the lengthy presidential campaign, to see what his administration will mean for science and technology.

In September, Obama unveiled a comprehensive Science and Technology Policy (pdf).

In it he promised to lead a new era of scientific innovation in America and to]]></description>
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<title>The Man Behind Proposition 8</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Among the local ballot measures to be decided on Election Day, California’s Proposition 8 is perhaps the most fiercely contested. Backers of the proposition to ban same-sex marriage in the state cast their campaign in apocalyptic terms. “This vote on whether we stop the gay-marriage juggernaut in California is Armageddon,” born-again Watergate felon and Prison Fellowship Ministries founder Chuck Colson told the New York Times. Tony Perkins, the president of the Christian right’s most powerful Be]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-11-04T19:20:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Sharia law incompatible with human rights legislation, Lords say</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The House of Lords today drew stark attention to the conflict between sharia and UK law, calling the Islamic legal code "wholly incompatible" with human rights legislation.

The remarks came as the Lords considered the case of a woman who, if she was sent back to Lebanon, would be obliged under sharia law to hand over custody of her 12-year-old son to a man who beat her, threw her off a balcony and, on one occasion, attempted to strangle her.

The woman was seeking asylum in the UK to avoid ]]></description>
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<title>Archaeologists report finding oldest Hebrew text</title>
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<description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Israel said on Thursday they had unearthed the oldest Hebrew text ever found, while excavating a fortress city overlooking a valley where the Bible says David slew Goliath.

The dig's uncovering of the past near the ancient battlefield in the Valley of Elah, now home to wineries and a satellite station, could have implications for the emotional debate over the future of Jerusalem, some 20 km (12 miles) away.

Archaeologists from the Hebrew University s]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-10-30T16:25:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>As abortion foes grow more intense, a new view surfaces</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In New York, Cardinal Edward M. Egan published a picture last week of a 20-week-old fetus in his newspaper column and declared that abortion is a crime "no less heinous than what was perpetrated by Hitler and Stalin."

In Dallas and Fort Worth, two bishops jointly declared that voting for a politician who supports abortion rights is "morally impermissible." In Pennsylvania, a bishop made a surprise visit to a parish politics forum, declared, "I own this building," and dismissed the bishops' ow]]></description>
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<title>Domestic violence fatwa stirs outrage</title>
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<description><![CDATA[CAIRO // While the Quran permits a husband physically to discipline his wife should she disobey him, a recent wave of rulings by Islamic scholars are encouraging women to fight back.

This week, Sheikh Abdel Hamid Al Atrash, who heads the committee for fatwas, or religious edicts, at Al Azhar University in Cairo, Sunni Islam’s highest institute, ruled that women are entitled to use violence to defend themselves from abusive husbands.

“A wife has the legitimate right to hit her husband in or]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-10-30T01:00:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Islamists stone Somali woman to death for adultery</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Somali Islamists have stoned to death a woman accused of adultery, witnesses said, the first such public killing by the militants for about two years.

The 23-year-old woman was placed in a hole up to her neck for the execution late yesterday in front of hundreds of people in a square in the southern port of Kismayu, which the Islamist insurgents captured in August.

Stones were hurled at her head and she was pulled out three times to see if she was dead, witnesses said. When a relative and ]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-10-29T01:30:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Sarah Palin&#39;s War on Science</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Christopher Hitchens
In an election that has been fought on an astoundingly low cultural and intellectual level, with both candidates pretending that tax cuts can go like peaches and cream with the staggering new levels of federal deficit, and paltry charges being traded in petty ways, and with Joe the Plumber becoming the emblematic stupidity of the campaign, it didn''t seem possible that things could go any lower or get any dumber. But they did last Friday, when, at a speech in Pittsburgh,]]></description>
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<title>Outrage as cleric weds girl, 12</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Muslim cleric has caused public outrage in Indonesia after marrying a 12-year-old girl.
Pujianto Cahyo Widianto married the girl in the central Java city of Semarang, during an unofficial religious ceremony.
He reportedly chose her from a pool of 20 girls, before flying to Singapore with his new bride, as well as his first wife.
Police have launched an investigation into the incident.
Possible charges -Article continues Off Site, courtesy BBC News.]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-10-27T13:00:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Emory workshop teaches teachers how to teach evolution</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some students burst into tears when a high school biology told them they’d be studying evolution. Another teacher said some students repeatedly screamed “no” when he began talking about it.

Other teachers said students demanded to know whether they pray and questioned why the had to learn about evolution if it was just a theory.

About 60 public high school teachers from the Atlanta area were at Emory University last week, swapping stories about the challenges they face when teaching evolut]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-10-27T03:00:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Islamic protests over female preacher</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A visiting professor has sparked protests from many members of the Muslim community after she became the first woman in Britain to lead an Islamic prayer service.

Amina Wadud arrived in Oxford on Friday to perform the service before a mixed congregation of men and women at Wolfson College.

The event marked the start of a conference on Islam and feminism at the college and has provoked mosques throughout the country to weigh into the debate.

A Muslim student at Oxford opposed the event, ]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-10-25T01:45:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Stephen Hawking to retire from prestigious post</title>
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<description><![CDATA[CAMBRIDGE, England – Famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking will retire from his prestigious post at Cambridge University next year, but intends to continue his exploration of time and space.
Hawking, 66, is Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a title once held by the great 18th century physicist Isaac Newton. The university said Friday that he would step down at the end of the academic year in September, but would continue working as Emeritus Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.
"We look forward to h]]></description>
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<title>Creationists declare war over the brain</title>
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<description><![CDATA["YOU cannot overestimate," thundered psychiatrist Jeffrey Schwartz, "how threatened the scientific establishment is by the fact that it now looks like the materialist paradigm is genuinely breaking down. You''re gonna hear a lot in the next calendar year about... how Darwin''s explanation of how human intelligence arose is the only scientific way of doing it... I''m asking us as a world community to go out there and tell the scientific establishment, enough is enough! Materialism needs to start ]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-10-23T01:00:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Afghan student gets 20 years instead of death for blasphemy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An Afghanistan appeals court overturns the death sentence for Parwez Kambakhsh, who circulated an article about the rights of women under Islam.

In a case that has illustrated this country's drift toward a more radically conservative brand of Islam as well as the fragility of its legal system, an appeals court today overturned a death sentence for a student convicted of blasphemy but sentenced him instead to 20 years in prison.

The 24-year-old student, Parwez Kambakhsh, ran afoul of Afghan]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-10-21T15:00:00-08:00</dc:date>
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