The Humanist Volume 69 issue 1, Jan-Feb 2009 torrent

The Humanist Volume 69 issue 1, January-February 2009

FEATURES

Darwin Day Celebration: The International Recognition of Darwin, Science, and Humanity
by Robert J. Stephens

The Evolution of the Mind and What it Means to Humanism
by Frederic March

Change We Can Believe In: “Race” and Continuing Selection in the Human Genome
by Kenneth W. Krause

Inexorably toward Trial: Reflections on the Dover Case and the “Least Dangerous Branch”
by Judge John E. Jones III with introduction by Matthew Chapman

Why Genocide!
By Fred Edwords

No Water, No Peace: Beyond the Ethnic Battle in Darfur
by Hannah Hussey

COLUMNS

Freedom for Me but Not for Thee: Marriage and Mormons in California
by Rob Boston

“You and Your Dopey Sign”
by Fred Edwords

What Darwin Didn't Know (Is What Some Folks Believe)
by Jenna Vaccaro

Don't Make God Mad
by Pete Jones

DEPARTMENTS

Cry If You Want To: Cases of Mistaken Atheism Still Offensive
by Karen Frantz

Son of a Humanist
by David A. Niose

Life in the Pack: Of Dogfights and Social Moralities
by Bryan Zepp Jamieson

“Against Optimism”
by Edward Harkness

REVIEWS

The Man Who Loved China
by Simon Winchester
review by Michael Hsu

Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural
by Jim Steinmeyer
reviewed by Howard Schneider

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
by Vincent Bugliosi
review by Donald Gutierrez