What's New Archive ● 1997 ● August
- August 31, 1997
- Bible Prophecy: Failure or Fulfillment? by Tim Callahan is the September 1997 II Book of the Month
- August 30, 1997
- Added Joseph Brennan's Foundations of Moral Obligation to the new General Philosophy section of the II Bookstore
- August 28, 1997
- Response to Josh McDowell's Evidence That Demands a Verdict, "The Uniqueness of the Bible" by Farrell Till (this is chapter one of The Jury Is In: The Ruling on McDowell's "Evidence")
- August 24, 1997
- Little-Known Document Signed By President Adams Proclaims America's Government is Secular by Jim Walker (Off site)
- Added author page for Jim Walker
- Black Collar Crimes
- Third Statement by Michael Martin
Michael Martin's Third Statement in his Internet debate with Phil Fernandes on the existence of God
- August 20, 1997
- Added the 1995 revised edition of Douglas Futuyma's Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution to the Creation-Evolution section of the II Bookstore
- Added a Humanism section to the II Bookstore
- August 16, 1997
- American Atheist Magazine - Web Edition (Off Site)
- Added What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality by Daniel A. Helminiak, Ph.D. to the Biblical Errancy section of the II Bookstore
- Added The Missionary Position: Mother Theresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens to the Radical Religious Right section of the II Bookstore
- Updated Keith Augustine's biography to reflect the publication of his essays on immortality in Skeptic Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2 (September 1997).
- Added Mark Kingwell's Dreams of Millennium : Report from a Culture on the Brink to both the Radical Religious Right and Psychology of Belief sections of the II Bookstore
- Added Matthew Stewart's The Truth About Everything : An Irreverent History of Philosophy : With Illustrations to the General Philosophy section of the II Bookstore
- Religion - the antithesis to science (Off Site) by Peter Atkins
- Added Karen Armstrong's A History of God : The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the History of Religion section of the II Bookstore
- Added David W. Owens' The Gods of Man to the History of Religion section of the II Bookstore
- Added Jim Babeckis' & Benita A. Chapman's One True Doctrine to both the Radical Religious Right and Biblical Errancy sections of the II Bookstore
- August 13, 1997
- August 12, 1997
- July/August 1997 issue of The Skeptical Review
- May/June 1997 issue of The Skeptical Review
- Added The Extreme Right: Freedom and Security at Risk to the Radical Religious Right section of the II Bookstore
- Added The Freewill Argument For the Nonexistence of God by Dan Barker
- Added Dear Theologian by Dan Barker
- August 10, 1997
- Freethinkers Youth Summer Camp in Colorado, August 25-31, 1997
- Added Women Without Superstition: "No Gods -- No Masters" by Annie Laurie Gaylor to the Freethought section of the II Bookstore
- Added three new links to the Islam section of the Secular Web Library. Be warned, though, these sites are all written from an Evangelical Christian perspective:
- Allah the Moon God (Off Site)
- Answering Islam (Off Site)
- Koran: Testimony of Antichrist (Off Site)
- August 9, 1997
- Added James A. Cox to the list of modern authors. Mr. Cox, the Editor of the Midwest Book Review, is now a regular contributor of book reviews to the Infidels. See his review of H.L. Mencken's Treatise on the Gods in the new History of Religion section of the II Bookstore
- Added H.L. Mencken's Treatise on the Gods and Andrew Dickson White's History of the Warfare of Science With Theology (3 versions) to a brand new History of Religion section of the II Bookstore
- August 8, 1997
- Added T.J. Walker (Off Site) to the list of sites related to to the Activists' Corner
- August 5, 1997
- August 3, 1997
- Added Simon Blackburn's Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy and Will Durant's Story of Philosophy to a brand new General Philosophy section of the II Bookstore
- Added Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West, Alvin Toffler's Future Shock, and Will Durant's Lessons of History to a brand new Historical Perspectives section of the II Bookstore
- Added Thomas Jefferson's Freethought Legacy to the Freethought section of the II Bookstore
- Added The Old Faith & The New by David Friedrich Strauss to the Historical Criticism section of the II Bookstore
- Index of sites in the Freethought Ring (Off Site)
- Victual Virgins, the August 1997 Edition of The Happy Heretic by Judith Hayes
- American Atheists in Hawaii (Off Site)
- August 2, 1997
- II is now selling Unix shell accounts on infidels.org
- March/April 1997 Issue of The Skeptical Review
- Added Who Wrote the New Testament? by Burton L. Mack to the Biblical Errancy section of the II Bookstore
- January/February 1997 Issue of The Skeptical Review
- August 1, 1997
- Contact by Carl Sagan is the II Book of the Month
See "What's New?" for past months.