Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
You might, or perhaps might not, be aware, but at the start of term during their annual Freshers’ Fair last Oct, the students union at the London School of Economics came down upon two students like a ton of bricks. The hideous crime being purged by these self-appointed thugs was the demand that two members of the LSESU … Read more
Hemant Mehta, is rather famous for selling his soul on eBay … and yes, he really did. That story (briefly) is as follows … In January 2006, Hemant Mehta posted an auction on eBay where he explained his background in atheism and offered to go to the worship services of the winning bidder’s choosing. The auction ended on February … Read more
Well-known Christian Apologist, William Lane Craig, has written an article in which he lays out five items that he claims to be “evidence” that there is a God. The site in which he promotes all this from is …. (insert drum roll) … Fox News. Well yes, I guess my first thought is to wonder … Read more
Ed West has a nice article over in the Spectator entitled “Ex-Muslims are living the British dream – Britain should support them”. He writes … There was an excellent Radio 4 documentary on yesterday in which Sarfraz Manzoor interviewed a group of people you don’t hear much about – ex-Muslims. … the ex-Muslims are right. … Read more
It is rather popular for the more conservative US elements to promote the idea of erecting a religious artifact in a public space. Remember now, the context here is that there is supposed to be a wall of separation between church and state to avoid granting a special privilege to a specific religious faction. OK, … Read more
Michael Shermer, a monthly columnist for Scientific American and also the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine writes a rather interesting article in the December issue of Scientific American all about the decline of religion and the rise of the Nones. The point he build up to is this … A 2012 Pew Research Center survey, … Read more