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How Will Religion Evolve?

Does religion have a future? Who looks more like an evolutionary dead end: the religious American or the agnostic European? Or will both give way to some sort of compromise — people bound by new institutions that provide the social benefits of religion without belief in a tradi …

Man Who Claimed Disability Spotted on TV Show

56-year-old Ronald Hunt of LA was sentenced Tuesday to 200 hours of community service and ordered to pay more than $180,000 in restitution, unpaid taxes and fines. He ple guilty to two felony counts of fraud.

Darwin Killed Off The Werewolf

From the late 19th century onwards, stories of werewolf encounters tailed away significantly, says Regal. "The spread of the idea of evolution helped kill off the werewolf because a canid-human hybrid makes no sense from an evolutionary point of view," he says.

How can a parent survive the teen years?

The teenage years can be a nightmare for many parents. This is the time they are likely to feel impotent, frustrated, useless and powerless. However, they really don't have to be too painful or unnerving, neither do they even have to happen that way.

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2nd. Index of Articles by Robertlyn Schultz (by Topic)

One Hundred and Six Articles, it's getting deeper! So I thought that a second index would be a good idea about now. All my new friends can find those older stories where I was just starting to write in public.

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NY Court of Appeals Upholds Marriage Recognition Policy

The New York Court of Appeals ruled today that government benefits may be provided to same-sex couples who are legally married elsewhere and residing in New York.  The 4-3 decision, by the state's highest court, held that public officials have the authority to grant public emp …

Chicken-Costumed Person Appears At City Council Meeting

A person in a chicken costume appeared around 8:30 PM at the Durango City Council meeting where they were debating a backyard chicken ordinance.

Living Life with Purpose

"I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all." ~~Leo Rosten

Indianapolis Schools Ban Atheism Websites | Unreasonable Faith

The Indianapolis Public School system has a policy to ban certain websites from being viewed at school. I certainly hated it when I was in high school (we found ways to bypass it if course) but it's a reasonable idea.

A fair wage for a fair day's work

Pay equity is a relatively cheap, reasonably easy-to-apply mechanism to rid the workplace of historic, systemic wage discrimination against women.

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