Think before you enjoy it. The near-record temperatures expected today are a sign of things to come, and will become commoner and hotter in future years as man-made global warming takes hold, scientists predict. Link: Independent Online Edition > Environment The planet appears to be cooking as a result of human activity. If it’s hot here, imagine how hot it will be in sub-Saharan Africa in the next few decades.

The Norwegian Humanist Association has taken the lead in protesting the rapid fall of the United States of America from a defender of Human liberties to one that is threatening them. The following powerful statement issued by the current and all the former Secretary Generals of the Norwegian Humanist Association has been printed in the Aftenposten in Norwegian. Link: USA – A Civilisation in Decline | International Humanist and Ethical Union

E-mail: mail@suffolkhumanists.org.uk Event description: Sorry, cancelled due to illness. Watch this space for future T4TDs.

E-mail: mail@suffolkhumanists.org.uk Event description: T4TD by Margaret Nelson on BBC Radio Suffolk (95.5, 95.9, 103.9 & 104.6 fm). Listen online or listen again the same day.

E-mail: mail@suffolkhumanists.org.uk Event description: T4TD by Margaret Nelson on BBC Radio Suffolk (95.5, 95.9, 103.9 & 104.6 fm). Listen online or listen again the same day.

US website ‘God Hates Shrimp’ challenges Christians who quote the Bible to justify their homophobia to consider all the other things the Bible says we ought to abominate, including shrimps. Leviticus 11: 9–12 is quite clear about this. Shrimp, crab, lobster, clams, mussels, all these are an abomination before the Lord, just as gays are an abomination. Why stop at protesting gay marriage? Bring all of God’s law unto the heathens and the sodomites.

I turned on the TV to see the Regent’s park commemoration of the 7/7 victims, expecting the usual irrelevant religious ceremony, and was pleasantly surprised to see that it was a secular occasion, created by the families and friends of those who’d died, where political leaders and royalty took second place to the bereaved. So why did the BBC insist on referring to it as a ‘service’ in all their bulletins and reports?

That’s what his attitude to collective worship in schools amounts to. We wondered whether he’d be a better Education Secretary than Ruth Kelly – that is, whether he’d be less inclined to promote faith schools and religion in general – but no, he won’t. The National Secular Society reports that Executive Director Keith Porteous Wood wrote to Mr Johnson, having heard that faith leaders were pressing him to enforce collective worship more vigorously.

It’s good to hear that my ‘Thoughts for the Day’ are appreciated. I get feedback from Radio Suffolk listeners and from people I meet in the street, and yesterday I heard from someone who’d found the scripts here, on our website. She wrote, Just wanted to say that I’ve spent a very enjoyable evening reading the transcripts of some of your radio Suffolk thought for the days. Haven’t done the washing up as a result but never mind.

Creationism – the belief that the biblical story of creation is scientific fact – is beginning to make inroads into the science curricula of UK universities, The Times Higher can reveal. Leeds University plans to incorporate one or two compulsory lectures on creationism and intelligent design into its second-year course for zoology and genetics undergraduates next Christmas. At Leicester University, academics already devote part of a lecture for third-year genetics undergraduates to creationism and intelligent design.