The Telegraph is reporting that a new movie about Charles Darwin and his family, Creation, has been unable to secure a distributor in the U.S. due to its “controversial” subject matter:
Creation, starring Paul Bettany, details Darwin’s “struggle between faith and reason” as he wrote On The Origin of Species. It depicts him as a man [...]
According to a nationwide Trinity College 2008 survey released today (hat tip: AP/Yahoo! News), secularism is increasing across the U.S., while the percentage of self-identifying Christians has decreased significantly since 1990. Catholicism has suffered some especially steep regional losses, particularly in the Northeast. Traditional Protestant denominations have continued to decline as well.
Some interesting highlights:
The 2008 [...]
I am an atheist.
That word is difficult for me to use, having spent enough time in the church to know very well how abhorrent it is to so many people, especially in the United States. I could use the milder, slightly more acceptable term “agnostic,” but that implies more uncertainty than I actually feel. I [...]