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From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! Believe it or not, we’re less than two months away from the start of the Scopes Trial Centennial conference in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Richard Dawkins will be there in person, and I hope some of you will be as well. The Scopes Trial is an event of significant …

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From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! As you know, 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the Scopes Monkey Trial. It’s also the twenty-year anniversary of the landmark Kitzmiller v. Dover trial. What you may not know–but I am very proud to tell you–is that 2025 is also the tenth anniversary of the creation …

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From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! Humanism is grounded in optimism and a fundamental belief that we, individually and as a species, are capable of truly wondrous things. But because we are also inclined toward data and observable facts (rather than simple faith or belief that it’s all “part of the plan”), we’re …

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From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! One of the key differences between religion and science is in how each one determines “truth.” Religious “truth” requires nothing more than one’s belief. If God, the Pope, or the Imam says it, it must be so. Case closed.  Science, on the other hand, is based on …

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From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! This year will mark the 100th anniversary of the famous Scopes “Monkey Trial,” in which Tennessee high school teacher John Scopes was prosecuted for the outrageous act of … teaching the theory of human evolution. Out of the state’s own authorized textbook! Still, this violated the Butler …