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"My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends," wrote Christopher Hitchens in June before his death Friday from complications of esophageal cancer at the age of 62.

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Here's your chance to select your favourite Connector of the Day over the last few months.

Case for 'militant' atheismupdated: Wed Nov 25 2009 08:37:00

Oxford professor Richard Dawkins urges all atheists to fight the incursion of religion into politics and science.

Darwin and the case for 'militant atheism'updated: Wed Nov 25 2009 08:37:00

On November 24, 1859, the first edition of a book that would shake the most deeply established beliefs about life was published in London. What would eventually be known as "The Origin of Species" was the opening shot in a debate that hasn't ended, even 150 years later.

Dawkins on evolutionupdated: Wed Nov 25 2009 07:34:00

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins discusses evolution versus creationism with CNN's Max Foster.

Dawkins: Evangelist an 'idiot' on evolutionupdated: Wed Nov 25 2009 07:34:00

A Christian evangelist branded an idiot by atheist biologist Richard Dawkins for trying to refute Charles Darwin's theory of evolution has brushed off the criticism.

Fortune: God, technology and...platforms?updated: Fri Jul 20 2007 03:12:00

Catherine Cook, the 17-year-old co-founder of MyYearbook.com, explained why her service has become the third largest social network in the United States. Vint Cerf, the 64-year-old Internet evangelist from Google, conveyed his enormous optimism about continued prospects for the Internet, for which he co-developed the basic software underpinnings between 1974 and 1982. Tech pundit and investor Esther Dyson explained why she was putting her full medical and genetic records online. And John Chambers, CEO of Cisco, arguably the most successful large technology company, predicted that Net innovation would cause U.S. GDP growth to rise as much as a 5 percent annually, significantly higher than the current level of around 3 percent.

God vs. science: Can religion stand up to the test?updated: Sun Nov 05 2006 03:12:00

(Time.com) -- It's a debate that long predates Darwin, but the anti-religion position is being promoted with increasing insistence by scientists angered by intelligent design and excited, perhaps intoxicated, by their disciplines' increasing ability to map, quantify and change the nature of human experience.

The Quest for spiritualityupdated: Mon Mar 20 2006 07:41:00

(CNN) -- As we enter the new millennium, many of us find our homes filled with machines that fulfil our every desire. In a matter of hours we can fly just about anywhere and, with the Internet, we can access the sum total of human knowledge.

Fortune: 40 YEARS OF WINNING IDEAS WITH STAYING POWERupdated: Mon May 15 1995 00:01:00

People don't have ideas, ideas have people, according to a currently fashionable evolutionary view of culture. Ideas, like tunes and styles of dress, are snippets of cultural genetic material--inha...

Fortune: Finding nuts in the forest, the story they dare not print, and why workers are safe under capitalism. THE EARTH AND ITS FRIENDSupdated: Mon Jan 29 1990 00:01:00

Morgan Fairchild, blonde bombshell, is an environmentalist. So is David Duke, Louisiana legislator and former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. So is tennis lady Martina Navratilova....

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