Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
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
News has been circulating in the media that Meriam Ibrahim, the woman under sentence of death in Sudan for marrying a Christian, is to be released. For example … BBC here Guardian here Sadly this is not true, her lawyer has advised Channel 4 as follows … Ms Ibrahim’s lawyer Elshareef Ali Elshareef Mohammed told Channel 4 … Read more
In yet another example that confirm’s Pakistan’s descent into complete and utter lunacy, Dr Mehdi Ali (pictured above), an American volunteer cardiologist was shot dead in Pakistan yesterday. What happened, was this a robbery, or an act of random violence against a stranger? No, this was a planned assassination. Dr Ali’s “crime” in the eyes of the … Read more
The Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain has produced a rather extensive report on the activities of iERA (Islamic Education and Research Academy) within the UK that reveals them to not be what they claim at all. So what do iERA claim? They claim that they are a group that is … “committed to educating and informing … Read more
Antony Flew, was a rather famous British philosopher who was also a strong advocate for atheism. His arguments included these ideas … One should presuppose atheism until empirical evidence of a God surfaces He also criticised the idea of life after death and also criticised the free will defence of the problem of evil In fact, at the age of 27 he wrote … Read more