Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Yesterday, when I posted some of the rather strange claims being made by Pat Robertson on US TV, I had convinced myself that perhaps that was as weird as it gets. Well, it turns out that I was quite wrong about this because a friend shared something even more eccentric. A Saudi cleric has popped up … Read more
(Not so serious today, this is just for entertainment) For those of you that Use Facebook Pat Robertson has some “Spiritual” guidance for you. Side note, what the heck is “Spiritual” guidance? Apparently, in the 700 club context, it simply means “Whatever Pat Robertson says is fact on behalf of god”. So anyway, a question … Read more
This one left me scratching my head and wondering if we had received the full story. Nine year old Aiden Steward (pictured above) has apparently been suspended from school in Texas for threatening to deploy magic. The UK’s Telegraph reports … The eager Middle Earth fan ended up suspended from Kermit Elementary School, after telling a … Read more
I’m starting out with a recent rant by Pat Robertson, but stick with me here, because this posting is not really about his absurd monolog, that is just a platform to get into the real debate about these billboards. Pat Robertson is indeed the gift that just keeps on giving, and so as I’m sure you … Read more
As you might, or perhaps might not be aware, the young earth creationist group, Answers in Genesis (the folks who assert the earth is only 6,000 years old because the bible says so), have been building a life sized replica of Noah’s Ark. So how much would that cost? … apparently $73 million. They had originally … Read more
Galileo was famously arrested and then sentenced by the Inquisition for the crime of heresy – his crime? – he simply supported the fact based observation that the earth revolves around the sun, and so was overturning the idea that the earth was the centre of everything. He was also famously quoted as saying to those who … Read more