News from Butterflies and Wheels http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/news.php News stories selected by the BandW team. Barney Zwartz on the Global Atheist Convention http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/blogs/the-religious-write/by-their-fruit-shall-ye-know-them/20100309-pt02.html?comments=156#comments Massimo Pigliucci on Pseudo-metaphysics http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2010/03/krista-tippett-does-it-again.html Muslim Woman Councillor Defies Death Threats http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/content/towerhamlets/advertiser/news/story.aspx?brand=ELAOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsela&itemid=WeED08+Mar+2010+18%3A01%3A33%3A007 Irish Arrests Over Plot to Kill Lars Vilks http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/irish-arrests-over-plot-to-kill-cartoonist-1918843.html Germany: Reformers Want Pope to Speak Up http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5330556,00.html Paula Kirby on Catholics Dictating Terms http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/paula_kirby/2010/03/catholics_dictating_terms.html Leo Igwe on the Crisis in Jos http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/opinion/2233-still-on-jos-crisis.html Michael Ruse on Philosophers on Darwin http://chronicle.com/article/What-Darwins-Doubters-Get/64457/ Living Proof of the Armenian Genocide http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-living-proof-of-the-armenian-genocide-1918367.html Taner Edis: Theocracy is not the Issue http://secularoutpost.infidels.org/2010/03/theocracy-is-not-issue.html How Templeton Works: the Rod Dreher Example http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/rod-dreher-and-the-templeton-bribe/ More Religious Slaughter in Jos, Nigeria http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article7053487.ece Pope Faces New Pressure to Meet Victims http://www.independent.ie/national-news/benedict-faces-fresh-pressure-to-meet-victims-2091741.html Australia: Muslim 'Leader' Wants a Bit of Sharia http://www.smh.com.au/national/muslim-leader-wants-elements-of-sharia-in-australia-20100307-pqlo.html Terry Sanderson on Religious Influence on Politics http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/mar/08/religious-influence-politics Defectors Say Church of Scientology Hides Abuse http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/us/07scientology.html?emc=eta1&pagewanted=all Home-school Textbooks Dismiss Evolution http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100306/ap_on_re/us_rel_home_school_evolution Home-schoolers Respond to Jerry Coyne http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/evolution-and-home-schooling-redux/ The Home-schoolers Respond http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/the-home-schoolers-respond/ Virginia: Public Colleges Cannot Ban Anti-gay Bias http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/state_regional/state_regional_govtpolitics/article/CUCCGAT05_20100305-182601/328592/ Russell Blackford on Gary Bouma on Secularists http://metamagician3000.blogspot.com/2010/03/bouma-secularists-are-responsible-for.html Catholic School Expels Toddler: Parents are Gay http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/us-school-boots-student-with-gay-parents-20100306-pp7m.html Hitchens on the Ten Commandments http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/04/hitchens-201004 Academic Challenges Priest's Homophbic Rant http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/03/05/catholic-church-blasted-following-brighton-priest%e2%80%99s-homophobic-rant/ Liverpool Post on Airportoons Trial http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2010/03/03/atheist-accused-of-leaving-insulting-religious-images-in-liverpool-s-john-lennon-airport-prayer-room-100252-25948815/