Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The news from Saudi Arabia is as dire as ever, Gulf News reports … Manama: Saudi Arabia’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has asked the interior ministry to arrest several people for apostasy and atheism. The commission did not divulge the number of people whose arrest it requested, but it … Read more
If you have not yet come across wikiHow then you should check it out, it is a web-based and wiki-based community, consisting of an extensive database of how-to guides. wikiHow’s mission is to build the world’s largest and highest-quality how-to manual. So on Wikihow I’ve come across a How-To that leads me to doubt the claimed “highest-quality”, it is entitled … Read more
Last year Bangladesh blogger Asif Mohiuddin was brutally stabbed by the Islamists, and then arrested for the crime of being an atheist and sent to jail. (I blogged about it here and also here and here) Well, I have a fabalous update for you. Asif attended the World Humanist Congress last weekend in Oxford and has an amazing story to tell. That … Read more
And so this weeks daft claim is about Ebola. Since Ebola is in the news, it gains traction as the latest item to be mulled over and assigned a role in the supposed plan of a supernatural entity that is claimed to have created over 100 Billion galaxies with over 200 billion stars in each … just for … Read more
It is always interesting, or perhaps entertaining is a better word, to browse the Christian Post and see if anything catches my eye. Is the grass greener on the other side of the fence, and are their credible arguments lurking in some dusty long forgotten corner? (I suspect you can guess the answer). Why? Well … Read more
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