Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Apparently the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) biology textbooks had once taught that the existence of the Loch Ness monster disproved Darwin’s theory of evolution. OK, you can stop laughing now … this was no joke, they have actually been teaching kids that the proof that evolution was wrong was a completely fictitious myth. Really? Sadly yes … … Read more
There is a story in the Times of India about a new search engine that has been launched in Pakistan called “Halalgoogling”. Basically it does a search using Google or Bing, then filters out un-Islamic content in order to render Islamic approved results. I tried it out, and sure enough it does what it claims … Read more
I spotted a brief little letter in the York Daily that is so in denial of reality that it rather amused me … For some time now I have been reading people’s letters to the editor about religion and Christianity. There is only one way to solve their problems regarding their differences about the Bible. … Read more
Just how daft can beliefs get, can they become, not just outrageously bizarre, but complete decoupled from reality, and yet still assert a claim of “truth”? Yes, they can and often do. I must confess to an excessive degree of bemusement derived from a scan of Ken Ham’s folly, perhaps better known to some as … Read more
Michele Bachmann has announced that she will not run for re-election in 2014 (phew), perhaps because she has enough sense to grasp that her chances of getting re-elected are more or less zero, or perhaps it just might be due to a widening investigation into her campaign spending. She claims … “I fully anticipate the mainstream liberal … Read more
In the “You have just got to be fracking kidding me” category, we have the following exam, it was circulated a couple of weeks ago on FB by Elise Andrew at “I F’ing Love Science”, and has now been reposted with verification that it is real and not simply a bit of satire designed to mock creationism. … Read more