Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Meet Mrs Holly Fisher, a lady who makes her political position rather clear – she is anti abortion, and would like to see Obama impeached. She decided to see if she could tick off a few liberals with this tweet … … and yes those re-tweet and fav counts are real. The expectation was that … Read more
People believe some truly weird things, and yet even while believing, end up doing something different. My classical example of this concerns those that truly believed that Obama is the Anti-Christ. Now what makes that last one truly weird is as follows: A poll revealed that 13% of the US at the time of the … Read more
I must confess that I quite enjoy debates, but at the same time recognise they are not everybody’s cup of tea. Perhaps my interest stems from the thought that all ideas should be robustly challenged, especially those that I hold. But then I do also like to view it as an opportunity to potentially gain additional insights into what makes those with religious beliefs tick. … Read more
Lurking out there are people who hold some very extreme and completely insane views. This ranges right across the diversity of belief and includes weirdness such as: Westboro Baptist church protesting outside a department store in their home town because it just happened to sell Swedish made vacuum cleaners. Apparently the Swedish government had rebuked … Read more
This has simply got to be one of the most bizarre attempts at public dialog I have ever come across. On one side we have Ken Ham, the rather well-known creationist who believes the world is only 6000 years old (yes really just 6000 … despite the fact that we have trees older than that). On … Read more
Folks who are fully committed hell-fire and brimstone evangelical preachers will often pop up in various public locations to tell you all about Jesus. They are compelled to do so because part of the success of the belief is not simply that it plays a psychological trick upon you by getting you to buy into … Read more