Editorial

4

Bravo, President-Elect Obama! New Dimensions for AMerican Democracy

From the Editors

6

The Two Imperatives of Planetary Ethics

Paul Kurtz

Op-Ed

14

An Unfruitful Plea

Tom Flynn

16

Split Hairs and Split Movements

Ron Lindsay

18

The Hidden Costs of Money

Peter Singer

19

Politics and Pulpits

Wendy Kaminer

21

Are Muslims a Menace to Christian Europe?

Shadia B. Drury

Features: The Future of Religion: Two Views

23

Introduction

Tom Flynn

24

The Big Religion Questions Finally Solved

Gregory S. Paul

37

The Great God Debate and the Future of Faith

Alexander Saxton

44

'I Shall Never Get to the Resting Place' The religious skepticism of Abraham Lincoln

Richard Lawrence Miller

48

Islam and Human Rights: Defending Universality at the United Nations

Austin Dacey and Colin Koproske

Departments

11

Leading Questions A Conversation with Rev. Michael Dowd

12

Letters

51

Church-State Update

Edd Doerr

52

Great Minds: A Great Humanist: William James

John Shook

54

What Makes a Life Significant

William James

56

Humanism at Large The Ten Commandments of Evangelical Capitalism

R. Georges Delamontagne

Poem

43

Minus 16 and Counting

Bradley R. Strahan

Reviews

57

The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions By David Berlinski

Paul R. Gross

61

50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God By Guy P. Harrison

Nica Lalli

62

Religulous Written By Bill Maher Directed By Larry Charles

Jim Underdown

Editorial

4

Overcoming the Global Economic Tsunami

Paul Kurtz

6

The Core values of Secular Humanism: The Difference Between Ethics and Politics

Paul Kurtz

7

It Is Time for Secular Humanists to Run for Public Office

Paul Kurtz, Ruth Mitchell, Toni Van Pelt, and Tom Flynn

8

Defaming Human Rights

Paul Kurtz, Austin Dacey, and Tom Flynn

Op-Ed

14

Let My Person Go!

Tom Flynn

16

Freedom of Thought

Ronald A. Lindsay

18

The Sad Case of Motl Brody

Arthur Caplan

20

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

Wendy Kaminer

22

President Obama Faces Legal Black Holes

Nat Hentoff

24

Debating Douglas

Christopher Hitchens

26

Evolution and Other ‘Problem Science’

Katrina Voss

Poem

62

It

Jeredith Merrin

Reviews

58

Nauvoo Polygamy: “...But We Called It Celestial Marriage” By George D. Smith

Paul Kurtz

60

Bondage and the Bible: Written and Directed by D. Eric Harmon

Norm R. Allen Jr.

61

On Religious Liberty: by James Calvin Davis

Joe E. Barnhart

Features: Darwins 200^th

28

The Power of Darwin

Richard Dawkins

30

Creationism du Jour: The 'Evidence against Evolution'

Eugenie C. Scott and Glenn Branch

34

Nothing New Under the Sun:
The Louisiana Science
Education Act

Barbara Forrest

37

Rebel Giants: Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, 1809—2009

David R. Contosta

40

Darwin's Views on Race Matter

R.G. Price

46

How to Discredit the Theory of Evolution: Advice for Believers

Christian Wright

48

Taking Responsibility for Ourselves

Ronald Aronson

Departments

11

Leading Questions: A Talk with P.Z. Myers

12

Letters

52

Church-State Update

Edd Doerr

53

Great Minds: The Humanism of W.E.B. Du Bois

Norm Allen Jr.

57

European Correspondant: Something Rotten in the Church of Denmark

Malene Busk

Editorials

4

Personal Morality

Paul Kurtz

6

A Short Primer on Secular Ethics

Paul Kurtz

7

From the Editors
More on the Vice Presidency

Paul Kurtz and Tom Flynn

Op-Ed

14

Taken in the Wrong Spirit

Tom Flynn

16

George Washington's Ghostwriter

Christopher Hitchens

18

Crazy Eights

Arthur Caplan

20

Thirty Years of 'Test-Tube' Babies

Peter Singer

22

The Importance of Individualism

Tibor R. Machan

24

Conscientious Objectors to Killing Pre-Birthers

Nat Hentoff

26

Facism - American Style

Shadia B. Drury

Departments

8

Letters

12

Harold John Blackham
1903-2009

Barbara Smoker

13

Leading Questions
Art, Poetry, and Atheism
A talk with Jennifer Michael Hecht

56

Church-State Update

Edd Doerr

57

Living with Religion
What Kind of Atheist Are You?

Sheldon F. Gottlieb

59

Humanism at Large
Uppercase

Ellis J. Biderson

Poems

23

Nature's Mathematics

Maureen Mulhern

64

Worn Smooth

Maureen Mulhern

65

Science Lab

Maureen Mulhern

Features: Is the Population Bomb Finally Exploding?

28

Is This Zero Hour?

Tom Flynn

29

Is the Population Bomb Finally Exploding?

Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich

34

Population Growth and Climate Change
Universal access to family planning should be the priority

John Guillebaud and Pip Hayes

36

The Real Perils of Human Population Growth

David and Marcia Pimentel

40

Overpopulation?
No Way!

Jan Narveson

42

Exposing the Myth of Alcoholics Anonymous

Steven Mohr

49

Apartheid's Anniversary

Luis Granados

52

Aweism

Phil Zuckerman

Reviews

60

Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism
by Ibn Warraq

Lee Nisbet

64

Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment
by Phil Zuckerman

Edd Doerr

65

Hot, Flat, and Crowded
by Thomas L. Friedman

Edd Doerr

66

Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
by Dan Barker

Tom Flynn

Editorials

4

A Call for New Planetary Institutions
Plus: The Rights of the Child /
Torture and American Democracy

Paul Kurtz

7

Are There Secularists in the Trenches?

name withheld

Op-Ed

14

Secularization Renewed?

Tom Flynn

16

Why We Need to Keep Giving, Now

Peter Singer

18

‘Trust Us’

Wendy Kaminer

20

Against Grand Narratives,
Part I

Shadia B. Drury

22

2009 Templeton Award Goes for Proving … Um, What?

Derek C. Araujo

24

How to Deny Anthropogenic
Global Warming
Advice for Believers

Christian Wright

Departments

9

Letters

13

Leading Questions
Why Evolution Is True:
A Conversation with
Jerry A. Coyne

46

Church-State Update

Edd Doerr

47

Great Minds
On the Bicentennial of the
Death of Thomas Paine,
June 8, 1809

Kenneth W. Burchell

50

Applied Ethics
Redefining Death

Elliot D. Cohen

52

Faith and Reason
Protestant Diploma Mills

Alan Contreras

54

Humanism at Large
On the Policing
of Genetic Porn

Katrina Voss

Poems

53

Light

Felicia Nimue Ackerman

60

Strawberry Ice Cream
for Breakfast

Felicia Nimue Ackerman

Features: What’s Wrong with Faith-Based Funding?

26

Safeguarding Religious Liberty
in Charitable Choice and
Faith-Based Initiatives

Daniel Horowitz and Ruth Mitchell

32

The Faith-Based
Initiative 2.0:
Can We Unplug It?

Rob Boston

35

Keeping the Faith,
Ignoring the History

Susan Jacoby

37

Seven Reasons Obama’s
Faith-Based Initiative Is Wrong

D.J. Grothe

39

The Cross in the Doughnut Hole
A different church-state test
for the Obama White House

Ronald A. Lindsay

41

My Struggle for Equality

Taslima Nasrin

Reviews

56

Losing My Religion:
How I Lost My Faith
Reporting on Religion in
America—and Found
Unexpected Peace
by William Lobdell

Brian T. Sullivan

58

Forbidden Fruit:
The Ethics of Secularism
by Paul Kurtz

Daniel M. Kane

59

Quiverfull: Inside the
Christian Patriarchy
Movement
by Kathryn Joyce

Edd Doerr

60

Karma, Dharma,
Pudding & Pie
by Philip Appleman

Rob Boston

61

The Book of
Atheist Spirituality
by André Comte-Sponville

Bill Cooke

63

Tomorrow’s Table, Organic
Farming, Genetics, and the
Future of Food
by Pamela C. Ronald
and Raoul W. Adamchack

John Frantz

Editorials

4

The Future of Secular
Humanism in American
Plus:
Does the Universe
Have Meaning?

Paul Kurtz

5

What Is the Center for Inquiry/Transnational?

Paul Kurtz

Op-Ed

14

Two Cheers for
Same-Sex Marriage

Tom Flynn

16

The Holocaust,
Rwanda—Never,
Ever Again!

Nat Hentoff

18

Torture at the Polls

Wendy Kaminer

20

A French Revelation,
or The Burning Bush

James A. Haught

21

Without Free Will

Tibor Machan

22

Against Grand Narratives
Part 2

Shadia B. Drury

24

Thank You,
Science Fiction

Katrina Voss

Departments

7

Letters

13

Leading Questions
Living Well
without God:
A Conversation with
Eric Maisel

52

Church-State Update

Edd Doerr

54

Living Without Religion
Atheists Bus Ads
Turn Heads in Canada
and Worldwide

Justin Trottier

56

Faith and Reason
Sublime Naturalism

Lawrence Rifkin

Poem

53

In the Beginning

J.D. Schraffenberger

Features: Designer Moods: The Ethics of Neurochemical Enhancement

26

Designer Moods: The
Ethics of Neurochemical
Enhancement

David Koepsell

28

Social Pressures
for Technological
Mood Management

James J. Hughes

33

The Case for
Happy-People Pills

Mark Alan Walker

37

The Uncharted Moral
Landscape of Designer
Personalities

Ronald A. Lindsay

41

Profiles of the Godless
Results from a Survey
of the Nonreligious

Luke W. Galen

46

Visions and the
Origins of Christianity

Mary K. Matossian

Reviews

58

Living Without God:
New Directions for Atheists,
Agnostics, Secularists,
and the Undecided
by Ronald Aronson

Jeff Noonan

60

Quantum Gods
by Victor J. Stenger

Stuart Jordan

61

Worst Instincts:
Cowardice, Conformity,
and the ACLU
by Wendy Kaminer

Tom Flynn

62

Pessimism to Realistic Hope:
A Cognitive-Behavioral
Treatment Program for
Depression and Self-Esteem
by Tony Picchioni

Mary Ann Barnhart

62

Write These Laws
on Your Children:
Inside the World of
Conservative Christian Homeschooling
by Robert Kunzman

Edd Doerr

63

God Is Back:
How the Global Revival
of Faith Is Changing
the World
by John Micklethwait
and Adrian Wooldridge

Matt Marshall

64

Helix
by Eric Brown

Tom Flynn

65

The Other Preacher
in Lynchburg:
My Life Across Town
from Jerry Falwell
by John Killinger

Edd Doerr

65

Holy Hullabaloos:
A Road Trip
to the Battlegrounds
of the Church-State Wars
by Jay Wexler

Edd Doerr

Editorials

4

Two-and-a-Half Cheers
for Progressive Humanism
Plus:
Health Care Is
a Human Right

Paul Kurtz

Op-Ed

14

It’s Amazing
What You Can Find
By Looking

Tom Flynn

16

An Eid Too Far

Christopher Hitchens

18

The Trouble with
Organ Trafficking

Arthur Caplan

20

Will Bush-Cheney’s
Chief Torture Lawyer
Face Justice?

Nat Hentoff

22

The Ties that Bind

Janet L. Factor

24

Scholars Probe
Religious/Secular Tensions
at The New School

Nathan Bupp, Ibn Warraq, Derek Araujo

Departments

8

Letters

12

Leading Questions
Christian Hypocrisy,
World Hunger, and the
Secularist Response:
A Conversation with
Peter Singer

46

Church-State Update

Edd Doerr

48

Living Without Religion
This Is It: Confessions
of a Skeptic

Will Cooper

50

God on Trial
Theism as Hate
Propaganda:
Can One Be Good
with God?

David Rand

52

Humanism at LargeThe Importance
of Definitions

S.C. Hitchcock

Features

28

The Subversion of Lisa Bauer
An Introduction by Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins

30

Subjection and Escape, Part 1
An American Woman’s
Muslim Journey

Lisa Bauer

37

John Dewey,
Philosophical Radical

Phillip Kitcher

39

Painful Junction

N. Bonaparte

41

Clericalism and
Anticlericalism in Spain

Edd Doerr

43

Against Tolerance

Stephen Gallagher

Poem

57

A Dream

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

Reviews

53

Darwin: A Life in Poems
by Ruth Padel

Matt Marshall

54

Forced into Faith:
How Religion Abuses
Children’s Rights
by Innaiah Narisetti

Floris van den Berg

55

Is Goodness without God
Good Enough?
by Robert K. Garcia & Nathan L. King

Norm R. Allen Jr

58

Playing Gods:
The Board Game
of Divine Domination
Created by Benjamin Radford

John Shook