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  • The elephant bird's tale

    In an exclusive extract from his latest book, a Chaucerian pilgrimage to the remote past, Richard Dawkins roams the lost continent of Gondwana

  • Anarchist with attitude: Laurie Taylor interviews Linda Smith

    Comedian Linda Smith, who died in 2006, was the president of the British Humanist Association. In this interview from 2004 she talks to Laurie Taylor about atheism, authority and her passion for pricking pomposity

  • Shock and awe

    Is the idea of 'the sacred' available to atheists? Richard Norman navigates the widely differing views at a recent humanist conference

  • Diderot's triumph

    Haydn Mason consults the original humanist bible

  • Give us a sign

    Why shouldn'’t humanists have their own code for conveying solidarity, asks Alan Brownjohn

  • Market of opinions

    The founder of the Gallup Organisation once said: "I could prove God statistically." How much should we trust these pollsters, asks Frank Jordans

  • Good without God

    Jim Herrick reconciles the mystic and the rational

  • Reasoning Away God

    Jonathan Derbyshire on a sophisticated — and clear — critique of theism

  • Where the atheists roam

    Christopher Duva longs for a godless homeland

  • Courage and Commitment

    Jim Herrick reports from Africa’'s first humanist conference