Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
This is a story that I have heard before, not as something that really happened, but rather as an Urban Legend (a story that I was told was a true story, but for which there was no actual evidence that it had ever actually happened in reality). Well now it has. About a week ago … Read more
This is simply hilarious and is indeed a lesson in people not really understating the consequences of their actions. The Friendly Atheist blogs about it all and starts by setting the scene as follows … In January of 2013, World Changers of Florida, Inc. held Bible distributions at a number of public high schools in Orange County, … Read more
So yes, finding a headline claiming “Militant Atheist converts” is perhaps click-bait, and yet I’m always curious to understand what makes people tick. The specific article in question comes from TheBlaze, and that fact alone should motivate you to question the accuracy of anything it says at all. Why? Well, let me put it this way, … Read more
The news has been announced that Ian Paisley has died, and as is usual when somebody passes away, he is being given a bit of a whitewash, for example the Guardian story about him being a peacemaker. There are perhaps a few things we should pause to consider because they might not be the focus of … Read more
Yes, the actor Kevin Sorbo (pictured above playing Hercules) had done it again, and has managed to tick one more box on his journey down the road named “Complete loony street”. OK, let’s have a quick recap and see where we have been so far prior to this latest blooper… we had a silly anti-atheist rant here (18th Aug) … Read more
Shock horror … a “US Presidential Candidate” endorses a fringe conspiracy stance. Oh wait, things are not quite as advertised (but you already knew that, right?). So the story here is that an anonymous poster has posted a YouTube clip that asserts this rather strange claim, and it consists of an interview of US Presidential Candidate Merlin Miller … Read more