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• Bad Faith Awards 2009: Pope Benedict XVI emerges victorious

  After a tightly fought campaign, and more than 7,000 votes cast, we announce the winner of our coveted 2009 Bad Faith Award

• Poem: The Playboy Calendar and the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

  How poet Martín Espada became a humanist

• Back from the dead? Facilitated communication and the strange case of Rom Houben

  In February the BBC reported that the Belgian man who appeared to be communicating after a 23-year coma wasn't. Sceptic Nicholas Pearson was on it for us back in November

• Beyond belief

  Some sophisticated arguments for God have been made in response to the New Atheists. Richard Norman puts the ‘New Believers’ to the test. Illustrations by Irene Fuga

• Better, juster, nobler

  A new collection of his essays on religion suggest that JS Mill is just the enlightened infidel we need today, says Jonathan Rée

• What’s the Worst that Could Happen? A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate by Greg Craven

  Simon Singh on a rational look at climate change

• Atheism in Christianity by Ernst Bloch

  Owen Hatherley sings the praises of Ernst Bloch, the prophet of serious atheism

• Thinking animal

  Darwinism has profound implications for philosophy, but we need to remember the master’s caution, warns Simon Blackburn

• Life laid waste

  The exiled Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski died in Oxford in July, at the age of 81. Jonathan Rée examines the legacy of a disillusioned socialist humanist

• Editorial: Inside denial

  Is our timidity emboldening the creationists?