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It Has Seven Genders and Can Mate with the Other Six!
By Karen Garst Had I been a more adventurous young woman or born at a later time, I am sure that I would have pursued biology as my field of study. I remember learning about evolution in my ninth grade science class in the 60s. I was hooked. I wrote a paper about early man […]
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Darwin Day – 2/12/18
Jane Roberts Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809 and February 12, 2018 Darwin Day is the 209th anniversary of his birth and the 159th anniversary of the publication of his master work “On the Origin of Species.” To make a long story short, his thesis seemed to suggest that survival of the fittest […]
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The United Nations Population Fund
Guest writer – Jane Roberts I learned about Karen and Faithless Feminists from a member of our fairly new group here in Redlands, CA, Freethinkers Around Redlands. We have dinners, a book club, take hikes, have an “atheist booth” at Market Night. Wonderful people. There are hundreds if not thousands of such groups forming around […]
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Let’s Get Real About The Pill – 8 Other Reasons Women Use Contraceptives
Guest post by Shanna Babilonia By now, we are all aware of the unnecessary push to regulate the use of birth control amongst women. Unfortunately, for millions of women across the United States (whose voices are often not heard), some of our leaders and lawmakers are attempting to remove birth control coverage from insurance policies […]
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What do menstruation and circumcision have to do with religion?
Late at night a lone man picks up a piece of ivory. Near the entrance to the cave, a fire is still glowing. He cannot seem to go to sleep. He picks up a sharp flint and carves a figure of a woman with pendulant breasts and a stomach that could only mean pregnancy. […]
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The Not-So-Intelligent Designer
Ever wonder why we have an appendix? Why so much of our genome is superfluous? Or, in my case, ever give birth to a baby with severe physical deformities who could not safely be born without medical intervention, and then have your friends quote the biblical psalm at you about God knitting a baby together […]
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Why Every Woman Knows Her Body Was NOT the Creation of an Intelligent Designer
In 1987, teaching creation science in public school classrooms became illegal. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Edwards v. Aguillard may have barred the teaching of creation science, but, shortly thereafter, the term “intelligent design” (ID) was coined as a euphemism to offer an argument against a purely scientific explanation for the creation of the […]
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