American Atheists Flash LineNews of Interest to AtheistsAtheists say theyve been threatened over their views- December 30, 2006 The note on Blair Scott’s windshield wasn’t a nice one. The anonymous writer had to have seen Scott’s atheist-themed bumper sticker, an uncommon sight in the small south Alabama town where he lived at the time. “It just amazed me that people would take time out of their day to return to their car, grab a pen and paper and write a ‘You’re going to hell and you’re going to burn in a lake of fire,’ and stick it under my windshield,” said..http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/state/16352145.htm Scientist Fights Church Effort to Hide Museums Pre-Human Fossils- December 26, 2006 Famed paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey is giving no quarter to powerful evangelical church leaders who are pressing Kenya's national museum to relegate to a back room its world-famous collection of hominid fossils showing the evolution of humans’ early ancestors. Leakey called the churches’ plans “the most outrageous comments I have ever heard.”(12-26-2006)http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/12/wleakey12.xml Talk in Class turns to God, Setting off Public Debate on Rights- December 22, 2006 Before David Paszkiewicz got to teach his accelerated 11th-grade history class about the United States Constitution this fall, he was accused of violating it. Shortly after school began in September, the teacher told his sixth-period students at Kearny High School that evolution and the Big Bang were not scientific, that dinosaurs were aboard Noah’s ark, and that only Christians had a place in heaven(12-22-2006)http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/nyregion/18kearny.html?ex=1167368400&en=a0ede4aa6540... Inquiry Sought Over Evangelical Video- December 20, 2006 A military watchdog group is asking the Defense Department to investigate whether seven Army and Air Force officers violated regulations by appearing in uniform in a promotional video for an evangelical Christian organization.(12-20-2006)http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/10/AR2006121000883.html Anti-Evolution Group Surrenders- December 19, 2006 A suburban school board that put stickers in high school science books saying evolution is “a theory, not a fact” abandoned its legal battle to keep them Tuesday after four years.(12-19-2006)http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/georgia-anti-evolution-group-surrenders/2006121916540... |