Editorial

4

The Vatican and the Supreme Court: Should Religion Be a Private or Public Matter?

Paul Kurtz

The Cartoons and the Crisis

8

Islam and the Cartoons

Tom Flynn

12

Mutt, Jeff, and Muhammad

R. Joseph Hoffman

13

Representation of the Human Form in Islam

Ibn Warraq

Op-Ed

16

Secularism's Breakthrough Moment

Tom Flynn

18

The Myth of Secular Moral Chaos

Sam Harris

20

Bioengineering and Self-Improvement

Arthur Caplan

22

'Judician Activism' and the Conservative Revolution

Shadia B. Drury

24

C.S. Lewis's Hideous Weakness

Christopher Hitchens

25

Why the Korean Stem-cell Controversy Matters

Peter Singer

27

The Source of Our Dimishing Liberties

Nat Hentoff

29

Ten Years of Humanism and Skepticism in Russia

Valerii Kuvakin

Features: Intelligent Design After Dover

32

The Thin Edge of the Wedge

David Koepsell

34

Natural 'Knowledge' and Natural 'Design'

Richard Dawkins

36

Science vs. Religion in the ID Debate

Lawrence M. Krauss

40

Intelligent Design as Illusion

Stewart Elliot Guthrie

45

Teaching Evolution at a Christian College

David Ludden

47

Why Hard Science Won't Cure Easy Religion

R. Joseph Hoffmann

50

The Education of Shelby Knox

Benjamin Radford

54

The Specter of Brain Science

Thomas W. Clark

Departments

14

Letters

58

Church-State Update

Edd Doerr and Tom Flynn

59

Islam Watch: The Need for Qur'anic Criticism, Part 1

Ibn Warraq

Reviews

61

Our Endangered Values By Jimmy Carter

Keith Taylor

61

Thomas Paine and the Promise of America By Harvey J. Kaye

Kenneth Burchell

63

The Just War and Jihad Edited by R. Joseph Hoffmann

Kenneth W. Krause

64

Roadside Religion By Timothy K. Beal

Greg Martinez

65

Democracy Under Assault By Michele Swenson

Edd Doerr