Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
On the surface this might appear to be a posting that is simply reporting the results of the latest Pew survey of Religious Knowledge. It is not. Instead I am using the insights gained from it to point out a few rather fascinating details. The latest Pew Quiz Published on 23rd July 2019, pew published … Read more
Gallop have published the results of their regular poll that explores belief in Creationism. From this we learn that 40% of U.S. adults ascribe to a strictly creationist view of human origins, believing that God created them in their present form within roughly the past 10,000 years. Let’s take a look at the details they … Read more
Here is this week’s selection of the flow of weird that emminates from that blend of fundamentalist religion with right-wing politics.
Joshua Harris, who promoted “purity Culture” as your best bet for a long happy maggiage, has announced that he is separating from his wife.
Here is this week’s selection of the flow of weird that emminates from that blend of fundamentalist religion with right-wing politics.
Can you take a statistical tool such as Bayes Theorem and calculate meaningful answers to religious questions such as “Is there a God?“, “Did Jesus exist?“, or “Did Jesus rise from the dead?“. It has been tried, people really will deploy this approach. When challenged they often exclaim “You can’t argue with the maths, it … Read more
