Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The British Humanist Association has a fun little quiz for you to try out and see if you are a Humanist but never knew it. It is a set of roughly ten simple questions such as … Does God exist? with options such as (It depends what you mean, Yes, No, I don’t know, etc), … Read more
Not too long ago I was blogging about how 11-year-old George Pratt was tossed from the scouts because he refused to mutter a meaningless oath to a supernatural deity that he did not actually believe existed – from my viewpoint he was in essence being banned for being honest. Well, the good news is that all the … Read more
The UK’s Guardian has an article that warrants some additional comment. The primary headline grabbing thrust is that the Higgs boson theorist says he agrees with those who find Dawkins’ approach to dealing with believers ’embarrassing’. “What Dawkins does too often is to concentrate his attack on fundamentalists. But there are many believers who are just … Read more
Giles Fraser, a well-known UK C of E cleric who was previously canon chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral, has an “Ask a Grown up” column in the Guardian. OK, I can’t resist the side quip, a chap who likes to dress up in a dress and encourage the rest of us to believe in his imaginary … Read more
There is an article in the HufPo entitled , “On Being a Spiritual Atheist“. The title causes me to pause, what on earth does it mean? Atheism is simply an answer to one question, the God one. That is the entire scope, anything else is something else. The word “Spiritual” has always bothered me, what … Read more
Over at the Christian Post there is a blog posting that went up yesterday by a chap called Robin Schumacher entitled “A Look at Two Common Atheist Arguments”. Will this be a cut above the usual? Perhaps yes, he is billed as, “A Theologian and apologist” and “has a Ph.D. in New Testament and Master’s in Christian … Read more