What's New -- May 1997

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Honorary Board	May 30, 1997 Brief biographical sketch of Elizabeth Loftus May 28, 1997 Totally new Subject Index for the Modern section of the Library Michael Martin and Phil Fernandes, President and Founder of the Institute of Biblical Defense, have agreed to debate each other via the Internet on the existence of God. Read their opening statements by clicking on the two links below: Opening Statement by Phil Fernandes Opening Statement by Michael Martin Follow-Up (On Michael Martin) by Michael Butler (Off Site) May 27, 1997 Added Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy Page (Off site) to Epicurus Brief Biography of Joe Nickell Added Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution and Religion to the Church-State section of the II Bookstore Added Christianity and the Constitution to the Church-State section of the II Bookstore Brief Biographical Sketch of Doug Craigen Judge Moore & Christians vs. ACLU (thanks to Emmett Fields for pointing this one out (Off Site) Brief biographical sketch of Anthony Garrett Added The Quran & the Bible in the Light of History & Science to the Islam section of the II Bookstore Trends and Flaws in Some Anti-Muslim Writing as Exemplified by Ibn Warraq by Jeremiah D. McAuliffe, Jr. (Off Site) May 25, 1997 CFATALK Mailing List Examining an 'Unsolved Mysteries' Report of a 'Miraculous' Cure (1995) by Gary Posner (Off Site) God in the CCU? (1990) Medical Practice Enters a New Age (1994) (book review of "Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine" by Dr. Larry Dossey) by Gary Posner (Off Site) NBC's Cynically Skewed Reporting on the Power of Prayer (1994) by Gary Posner (Off Site) Noreen Renier 'Put to the Test' - Hollywood TV Style by Gary Posner (Off Site) Tampa Bay's 'Virgin Mary Apparition (1997) by Gary Posner (Off Site) May 16, 1997 Child Abuse Yahweh's Way by Farrell Till (Off site) Great Balls of Fire! by Farrell Till (Off site) Pioneers of Loophole Religion by Farrell Till (Off site) Scooping and Copping by Farrell Till (Off site) In Defense of Freedom of Conscience: A Cooperative Baptist/Secular Humanist Declaration by Paul Kurtz (Off Site) The Importance Of African Americans for Humanism by Paul Kurtz (Off Site) A Call for Preservation by Tom Flynn (Off Site) If You Want Something Done Right... by Tom Flynn (Off Site) Why Pull Our Punches? by Tom Flynn (Off Site) Happy Campers by Tom Flynn (Off Site) Legitimize Bastardy! by Tom Flynn (Off Site) Requiem for a Juggernaut by Tom Flynn (Off Site) May 14, 1997 Added the paperback edition of Arguing for Atheism by Robin Le Poidevin to the Atheism section of the II Bookstore (if you're interested in atheism, you've got to get this book) Stace and the Question of Objectivity in Mysticism by Mark I. Vuletic (Off site) The Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali and The Cloud of Unknowing: A Preliminary Step in Assessing the Ontological Accuracy of the Mystical Experience by Mark I. Vuletic (Off site) May 13, 1997 Added Post Fundamentalist Press to the Humor section. Added Religious Right: The Assault on Tolerance and Pluralism in America to the Radical Religious Right section of the II Bookstore Analysis of the Barker-Morehead Debate by Brian Scott Truncale (Off site) The Syrophoenician Woman in Mark 7:25-30/Matthew 15:21-28 by James Still (Off site) The Freethought Ring is working again May 12, 1997 Discussion Forum: Evolution added. Examining Miracle Claims by Joe Nickell Joe Nickell Author Page An Interview with Prof. Michael Martin / Ran Shalom (Off Site) Discussion Forum: Young Freethinkers added. May 11, 1997 The Israeli Atheists Society (Off Site) Added a Materialism section to the II Bookstore Added What If the Beach Boys Had Made Christian Rock? by Todd Pence and David R. Feeney to the Humor Section Not Practicing What You Preach: The Boy Scouts of America's Refusal to Recognize Atheism (1993) by Todd Pence Todd Pence Author Page Added The Power of Logical Thinking by Marilyn Vos Savant to the Logic section of the II Bookstore May 10, 1997 The Freethought Ring May 9, 1997 Added Movimiento Humanista Evolucionario Cubano (Cuban Evolutionary Humanist Movement) to national organizations May 8, 1997 The Pre-Canonical Synoptic Transmission: Who Was the Historical Jesus? by Jim Still May 7, 1997 Note About Einstein's use of the word "God" (Off site) Added New Lights on Joseph Smith's First Vision by Unknown Added Paul Kurtz author page. Added Tom Flynn author page. September/October 1996 issue of the Skeptical Review November/December 1996 issue of the Skeptical Review May 6, 1997 The Freethinker (the atheist/secular humanist journal published since 1881 and the subject of a blasphemy action which imprisoned its first editor, GW Foote) July/August 1996 issue of the Skeptical Review Secular Humanists of South Florida (Off Site) EXMORMON Mailing List Humanism: The Next Generation Conference: Amherst, New York May 29th - June 1st, 1997 Order books by Kersey Graves Split The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors by Kersey Graves into chapters (we used to have one file that was 743K long!) May 5, 1997 Order books by Thomas Paine Split The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine into smaller files (it used to be one 520MB file) May 4, 1997 Added How We Know What Isn't So to the Psychology of Belief category Order books by Gerald A. Larue Order books by Quentin Smith Order books by Madalyn Murray O'Hair Order books by Jon G. Murray Order books by Vic Stenger Order books by George H. Smith Order books by Gordon Stein Order books by Delos McKown Atheism: A Philosophical Justification by Michael Martin can now be ordered on-line! Order books by Michael Martin Order books by Annie Gaylor Order books by Richard Dawkins Order books by Dan Barker Added a Mormonism section to the II Bookstore Added two new books on Islam to the II Bookstore The Bible, the Qur'an, and Science: the Holy Scriptures Examined in the Light of Scientific Knowledge and Answering Islam: The Crescent in Light of the Cross May 3, 1997 Added SOS Sobreity: The Proven Alternative to 12-Step Programs to the Rational Recovery book category Added a Young Readers section to the II Bookstore Added an objectivism section to the II Bookstore May 2, 1997 Activists' Corner (a major new section of the Secular Web with the latest information on issues affecting all freethinkers, including separation of church and state and the Radical Religious Right) Remembering Dangerously by Elizabeth Loftus Excerpts from The Myth of Repressed Memory by Elizabeth Loftus Suffer The Little Children by Tim Madigan The Next Generation by Tim Madigan Tower of Babble by Tim Madigan To Bash Or Not To Bash by Tim Madigan "To Life" by Tim Madigan Mad Again by Tim Madigan May 1, 1997 Added author page for Elizabeth Loftus Added author page for Tim Madigan Added a Psychology of Belief category in the II Bookstore Atheism Vs. Apologetics by George Tipton - an account of the March 11, 1997 Barker-Wilson debate.
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