hey guys, as always thanks for stopping in to see what i've gathered together for your Sunday reading!

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alright, now let's get to the links:

religious fundamentalism means authoritarianism and prejudice.

why Prop 8 must fall

millennial generation is more supportive of gay marriage and reproductive rights.

if modern humans are so smart then why are our brains shrinking?

scientists create brain with a 12 second memory

secret base on Mars discovered? um. no.

Bible scholars are not a bunch of baffled skeptics.

when your beliefs are challenged with facts, you may think you alter your opinions and incorporate the new information into your thinking but it's more often the case that when your deepest convictions are challenged by contradictory evidence, your beliefs get stronger.

are there too many atheist meetings?

jellyfish are smarter than you might think.

natural selection in real time happening in birds.

climate skeptics flirt with intelligent design Islamophobic group.

no. science is not my god.

the myth of Richard Dawkins as an intolerant atheist crusader is just that, a myth.

what goes on at a Christian home-schooling convention?

crows and parrots: smart, but in different ways.

Ex-apologist points us to a new paper by Robert Bass on "inscrutable evil" arguing from the existence of the existence of this evil that god very probably does not exist as conceived by classical theism.

great Texas massacre hoax wrecks the reputation of psychics everywhere.

William Lane Craig and logical fallacies.

moving the goal posts in the "New Atheism" debate.

NPR points to 5 new books that explain the brain. looks like god reading. note that Michael Shermer's The Believing Brain is among the 5. remember, Dr. Shermer will be joining us on the podcast June 19th and we'll be giving away 3 signed copies of the book in the run up to his joining us on the show! details soon!

find out what happens when physicist Sean Carroll, fresh from writing and posting an essay on how physics shows that the existence of a god is extremely unlikely, is asked to write a piece for an intelligent design website.

atheism is the true embrace of reality.

defining the Big Bang.

Michael Shermer responds to the thoughts of Steven Hawking and others that suggest that we should be glad aliens haven't visited Earth because there's a good chance they'd be out to destroy us.

on the results of the new Pew survey- atheists and politics: the good and the bad.  Hemant Mehta comments as well.